... Australia?: Media Systems and Cultural coordinates in: J. Curran & M-J Park (Eds.), "De-westernising Media Studies". London and New York: Routledge, pp 237-248. What evidence is there that the author(s) of your chosen reading are influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment ... and/or modernism? As far as you can, link your response to themes developed by significant Enlightenment thinkers mentioned in this subject. The Cunningham and Flew article, De-westernising Australia?, printed in 2000 is written from a post modern perspective, given the date of publication, and the continuing the...

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... French and cosmopolitan rather than British, and he was much under the intellectual influence of that great Frenchman who is best known under the name of Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, 1694 1778). Voltaire -was an author of enormous industry; seventy volumes of him adorn the present -writer's shelves, and another edition of Voltaire's works runs to ninety- four; he ... ...

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... to turn into useful lives. (See Janet Hartley, `Philanthrophy in the Reign of Catherine the Great: Aims and Realities' in Russia in the Age of the Enlightenment. Essays for Isabel de Madariaga, edited by Roger Bartlett and Janet M. Hartley, Macmillan, 1990, pp.167-202). Just as she also sponsored scientific expeditions to investigate Russia's natural resources and thereby benefit state and ... ...

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