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'''May Ien Ang''' ({{lang-zh|洪宜安}},<ref name="ICIAC">{{Cite web|language=zh-hans|title=澳中艺术与文化研究院 |trans-title= Australia-China Institutefor Arts and Culture|author= |publisher= [[Western Sydney University|Australia-China Institutefor Arts and Culture, Western Sydney University]]|url=https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/1149698/ACIA1162_ACIAC_brochure_10_SimpChinese.pdf |date= |accessdate=2023-10-31 |archivedate=2023-10-31 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031094518/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/1149698/ACIA1162_ACIAC_brochure_10_SimpChinese.pdf&hl=zh-CN<!-- https://archive.today/20231031094518/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/1149698/ACIA1162_ACIAC_brochure_10_SimpChinese.pdf&hl=zh-CN --> |page=12}}</ref> born 1954<ref>{{cite LAF|id=n83-73157}}</ref>) is a Professor of [[Cultural Studies]] at the [http://www.uws.edu.au/ics/home Institute for Culture and Society] at the [[University of Western Sydney]] (UWS), Australia, where she was the founding director and is currently an ARC Professorial Fellow. She is also a Fellow of the [[Australian Academy of the Humanities]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.humanities.org.au/Fellows/Searches/FellowsSearch.asp?SN=ang&Disc=&type=&KW=&Sort=S&Order=A&submit=Search |title=The Australian Academy of the Humanities |website=www.humanities.org.au |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706125227/http://www.humanities.org.au/Fellows/Searches/FellowsSearch.asp?SN=ang&Disc=&type=&KW=&Sort=S&Order=A&submit=Search |archive-date=2011-07-06}} </ref>
{{Infobox scholar
| name             =  Ien Ang
| native_name  ={{lang|zh|洪宜安}}
| birth_date       =  17 June 1954 <ref>[http://albumacademicum.uva.nl/id/id050586 M.I. Ang, 1954 -] at the UvA ''Album Academicum'' webs tie.</ref>
| birth_place      =  [[Surabaya]], [[East Java]], [[Indonesia]]
| school_tradition =  Cultural Studies
| main_interests   =  Media, cultural consumption, audiences, identity politics
}}
Born in [[Indonesia]], but raised and educated in the [[Netherlands]], Ang received her Doctorate in the Social and Cultural Sciences, from the [[University of Amsterdam]] in 1990. Her work focuses on media and cultural consumption, the study of media audiences, [[identity politics]], [[nationalism]] and [[globalisation]], [[Human migration|migration]] and [[ethnicity]], and issues of representation in contemporary cultural institutions. In 2001 she was awarded the [[Centenary Medal]] 'for service to Australian society and the humanities in cultural research'.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1127170 |title=It's an Honour – Honours – Search Australian Honours<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2 April 2007 |archive-date=9 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151209002711/http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1127170&search_type=simple&showInd=true |url-status=live }}</ref>
Her writing encompasses contemporary Asia and the changing world order, Australia-Asia relations, as well as theoretical and methodological issues. She is a public commentator in Australia and a member of the Council of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.humanities.org.au/Fellowship/FindFellows/tabid/123/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1058/Ang-Ien.aspx |title=Ang, Ien, FAHA |access-date=21 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320203653/http://www.humanities.org.au/Fellowship/FindFellows/tabid/123/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1058/Ang-Ien.aspx |archive-date=20 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Methodology==
Ang relies heavily on the use [[Qualitative research|qualitative]] [[Case study|case studies]] to illustrate her research instead of using [[Quantitative research|quantitative]] methods to analyse audiences as was popular. Her first book ''Watching Dallas'' relied on the letters of 42 Dutch viewers of the popular television soap [[Dallas (1978 TV series)|''Dallas'']].  Ang writes of her analytical method for the letters; they "cannot be taken at face value, 'they should be read 'symptomatically': we must search for what is behind the explicitly written, for the presuppositions and accepted attitudes concealed within them. In other words the letters must be regarded as texts, as discourses people produce when they want to express or have to account for their own preference…"<ref>Ang, Ien 1985 ''Watching Dallas'': Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination, Menthuen, London. p. 11 {{ISBN|978-0-416-41630-5}}</ref> Also, Ang does not attempt to [[generalization|generalize]] or [[Triangulation (social science)|triangulate]] the cases study to apply it to other cases,<ref>[[Yin, Robert K.]] 2003, Case Study Research. 3rd edn. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks.</ref> instead arguing that it was sufficient to illustrate the audience response to ''Dallas'' in this instance alone, a style which is increasing in popularity.<ref>Donmoyer, Robert 2002, 'Generalisability and the Single Case Study.' in Gomm, Roger, Hammersley, Martyn & Foster, Peter (eds), Case Study Method. Sage Publications, London, pp45-69</ref> Ang pioneered this method whilst other practitioners were developing pseudo scientific models to apply to the [[Triangulation (social science)|social sciences]], Louise Spence, a fellow soap opera researcher, praises Ang's methodological style: “She had to redefine the position of the analyst and the language of analysis, challenging the once-dominant ideal of a detached observer using neutral language to describe ‘brute facts’, demystifying the idea of any strict separation of theory and data. Her effort reminds us that researchers are neither innocent nor omniscient”<ref>Spence, Louise 2005, Watching Daytime Soap Operas: The Power of Pleasure, Wesleyan University Press, Connecticut.</ref>
==Selected bibliography==
*''Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination'', Methuen, 1985.
*''Desperately Seeking the Audience'', Routledge, 1991
*''Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World'', Routledge, 1996
*(ed. with Sharon Chalmers, Lisa Law and Mandy Thomas), ''Alter/Asians: Asian-Australian Identities in Art, Media and Popular Culture'', Pluto Press, 2000
*''On Not Speaking Chinese: Living between Asia and the West'', Routledge, 2001
*''The SBS Story'', UNSW Press, 2008
For more complete list see Ang's page at the [http://www.uws.edu.au/ics/people/researchers/ien_ang UWS].
===''Watching Dallas''===
''Watching Dallas'' was first written in Dutch (as ''Het geval Dallas'') and released in the Netherlands in 1982, later translated into English in 1985.<ref>Ang, Ien 2009, 'Henry Mayer Lecture 2009 – From Dallas to SBS: The Popular, The Global and The Diverse on Television’, Media International Australia, vol. 131, pp6-15</ref> The work studies how an audience experiences pleasure in a soap opera using the replies of 42 viewers to an advertisement placed by Ang. As the research was carried out in the Netherlands and the case study was the US soap opera ''Dallas'' the work also questions how an audience responds to an international export. Ang continues this line of research in her later book ''Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audience for a Postmodern World'' as she researches how national content is influenced by the introduction of international content and the effect this has on both national programming and broadcast stations.<ref>Ang, Ien 2006, Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audience for a Postmodern World, Routledge, London.</ref>
===''The SBS Story''===
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers/professor_ien_ang Profile at University of Western Sydney]
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