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Editorial Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Sundeep Reddy Muppidi
It is with mixed feelings that I am writing the final editorial for this journal. I am sad that this journey has come to a stop but also happy in all that we managed to achieve in the short time that the journal was in publication. It was a visionary initiative of the founding editor Professor Eric Loo, when he launched it in partnership with SAGE Publications, and it provided a good, much needed platform
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Platform Politics: The Emergence of Alternative Social Media in India Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Prashanth Bhat
Widespread dissemination of hate speech on corporate social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube has necessitated technological companies to moderate content on their platforms. A...
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Book review: Biswajit Das and Debendra Prasad Majhi (Eds). Caste, Communication and Power Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Aniruddha Jena
Biswajit Das and Debendra Prasad Majhi (Eds). Caste, Communication and Power. New Delhi, India: SAGE Publications, 2021, 365 pp., ₹895. ISBN 9789391370824 (hardcover).
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The World Journalism Education Council (WJEC): Advancing global Interaction Through Standards, Teaching and Research Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-11-13 Joe Foote,Robyn S. Goodman,Ian Richards,Elanie Steyn
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Coronavirus Pandemic: How National Leaders Framed Their Speeches to Fellow Citizens Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-10-31 Pradeep Krishnatray, Sangeeta Shrivastava
It has perhaps never happened before that presidents or prime ministers of almost all countries have spoken to their citizens in so short a time on the same topic—COVID-19. When the scientific comm...
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Messaging in the Malaysian Workplace: Communication, Social Media and Employee Wellbeing Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Norsyamihah Abdul Wahab, Nasya Bahfen
This article attempts to identify the impact of social media and new messaging processes on the well-being of Malaysian workers (specifically middle managers). It explores Malaysian workplace use o...
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Teaching Innovation Experience for COVID-19 Times: A Case Study on Blended Learning of Television Journalism Courses with Moodle Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Marcos Mayo-Cubero
The effective implementation of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in higher education is not guaranteed without serious and rigorous pedagogical reflection. It is essential to main...
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Profit Versus Partisan Causes in Diverse Ownership Models: A Case Study of Mainstream Newspapers in East Indian City of Kolkata Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-10-07 Suruchi Mazumdar
The extant scholarship of media ownership, largely drawn from Anglo-Saxon studies, focuses on how corporate excesses translate to abuses of the public interest goal of journalism, paying less atten...
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Gender-sensitive Portrayal in Cartoon Shows for Preschoolers: A Critical Analysis of Masha and the Bear Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-10-07 Kaifia Ancer Laskar
Most of the studies on children’s programming conducted in America or India, indicating an unbalanced and stereotypical gender representation, remain limited to those on older children. The present...
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The Increase of Online Journalism in Nepal Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-10-07 Harsh Mahaseth, Shifa Qureshi
In the past two decades, Nepal has gone through revolutionary changes in the traditional model and the online or digital model of journalism, progressively adapting to contemporary global trends in...
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Book review: Kanchan K. Malik and Vinod Pavarala (Eds.), Community Radio in South Asia: Reclaiming the Airwaves Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-06-09 Sai Sri Vidya Vaishnavi Nidumolu
Kanchan K. Malik and Vinod Pavarala (Eds.), Community Radio in South Asia: Reclaiming the Airwaves. Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2020, 310 pp. ₹1,271. ISBN 9781138558533.
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Editorial Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-06-09 Sundeep Muppidi
SAGE Publications, the publisher of this journal, has informed me that they have no alternative but to close down the journal, at the end of the year, since the copyright holder (The University of Wollongong) has decided not to continue with this journal after Professor Eric Loo (the Founder-Editor of this journal) retired from the university. Needless to say, we have no choice but to stop working
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Enhancing the Marginalized Youth Media Participation Through Formation of a Nation Building Action Plan with Intervention Study Design Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-05-12 Norshuhada Shiratuddin, Shahizan Hassan, Zainatul Shuhaida Abdul Rahman, Mohd. Khairie Ahmad, Kartini Aboo Talib, Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani, Noor Sulastry Yurni Ahmad
Malaysian marginalized youth participation in nation building through various media platforms is low. Therefore, an action plan was developed to enhance the social, political and economic participation of youth in marginalized communities through media utilization. The action plan consists of target items and approaches to conduct activities. Eight media-participation-related modules were also tested
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Institutionalized Education: Journalism and Mass Communication Education in Pakistan Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-05-06 David Bockino, Amir Ilyas
This article uses an examination of journalism and mass communication (JMC) education in Pakistan as a case study to explore the consequences of increased homogenization of JMC education around the world. Anchored by a qualitative method that relies heavily on actor-network theory, the study identifies key moments and people in the trajectory of five Pakistani programmes and explores the connection
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Is Over the Top Video Platform the Game Changer over Traditional TV Channels in India? A Niche Analysis Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Hashim Hamza Puthiyakath, Manash Pratim Goswami
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 and the consequent national lockdown, the usage of over the top (OTT) platforms has significantly increased in India. The growing popularity of video streaming has made a substantial impact on the traditional TV channels during pandemic times. The purpose of this study is to examine the competition, coexistence and competitive superiority of OTT and TV in providing consumer
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Central Asian Journalism Studies: Is There a Pathway From Conference Paper to Journal Publication? Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Bahtiyar Kurambayev, Eric Freedman
This exploratory study analyses growing pressures on faculty in Central Asia to publish research in high-quality international journals and how faculty attempt to meet publishing mandates from institutions and ministries motivated to join world rankings. This is important because of the scarcity of Central Asian scholarship in peer-reviewed journalism and mass communication (J&MC) journals due to the
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Communicating Health Uncertainty: How Australia’s only National Broadsheet Newspaper Reported the Emerging COVID-19 Pandemic Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-05-04 Patrizia Furlan
The news media play an important role in communicating health topics to the public (Hallin & Briggs, 2015, Media, Culture & Society, vol. 37, pp. 85–100). Often journalists are the first to raise an alarm about the safety of vaccines, medicines and pathogen outbreaks including emerging infectious diseases (Joffe, 2011, Public Understanding of Science, vol. 20, pp. 446–460). But the news media have
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‘Journalism Alongside’: A Reflection on Teaching Journalism Through Community Engagement Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-04-23 Tara Ross
This paper reflects on a service-learning public journalism project in which postgraduate journalism students have explored several ways to engage with and report alongside diverse communities. The aim of this paper has been to experiment with community journalism practices that give greater power to communities by prioritizing listening, reciprocity and bilateral engagement. By testing a ‘side-by-side’
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Social Media and Emotional Well-being: Pursuit of Happiness or Pleasure Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-04-23 D. Guna Graciyal, Deepa Viswam
Virtual engagement of lives has been made possible with the advent of social media. Almost 80% of the day are spent virtually on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, etc. Usage of social media to connect to and communicate with the ones we care about is always healthy, termed as social networking. Social dysfunction occurs when the constant communication leads to the point where our real
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World-ready: A Journalism Capstone Unit Model with International Focus in a Pandemic and Post-pandemic Landscape Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Laura Glitsos
In assessing the literature to date, in the field of journalism capstone units, there is an absence of research on the potential of Australian journalism capstone units that help cultivate journalism students’ international networks through new media platforms. I argue that there is a need for an Australian journalism capstone unit that focuses on a global vision for post-programme work opportunities
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Book review: Preeti Raghunath. Community Radio Policies in South Asia: A Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2021-04-08 Aniruddha Jena
Preeti Raghunath. Community Radio Policies in South Asia: A Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, XXIII+363 pp., ₹8,215 (hardback) and ₹7,476 (Kindle Edition). ISBN: 9789811556289.
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Networked Identities: Exploring the Role of Social Networking to Optimize Event Marketing by Higher Education Institutions in the Middle East Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Mian Muhammad Asim, Azmat Rasul
This article examines the growing use and influence of two popular social networking sites—Facebook and LinkedIn—in the Middle East. Under the premise of Social Identity theory, we focus on the impact of posting information about academic-related events on social networking sites. We recruited 180 participants in a laboratory-based experiment using a 2 (medium type) × 2 (message valance) × 2 (group
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Editorial Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Sundeep R. Muppidi
The year 2020 is mostly behind us. However, it would not be forgotten in a hurry. It will forever be remembered for COVID-19 and raise questions of how we, with all our technological and modern advancements, could have done something differently and/better in how we responded or failed to respond to the pandemic. In addition, especially with regard to the U.S. Presidential elections, a number of questions
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Media Framing of Disability and Employment in Japan: Traditional and Progressive Approaches Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Liz Shek-Noble
In this article, I undertake a qualitative, comparative content analysis of 14 news stories from 6 online English-language news sources from Japan during September 2018–2019. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach (Charmaz, 1995, Rethinking methods in psychology, SAGE Publications, pp. 27–65; Charmaz, 2000, Handbook of qualitative research (2nd ed.), SAGE Publications, pp. 509–535; Charmaz
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‘I am perfectly imperfect because I am a media professional’: Asserting the Association Between Media Consumption Attitude, Emotional Ownership and Personal Well-being Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2020-12-02 V. Vijay Kumar, Lalatendu Kesari Jena
A profession that leads to well-being is rewarding and fulfilling, as it is a vital factor in ascertaining the happiness and purpose of one’s life. Information and communications technology has become an integral part of everyone’s life in contemporary times. Media professionals are engaged in using various types of digital and online media for their work-related needs. At many times, due to extensive
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Role of Community Radio in Enhancing the Basic Mathematical Skills of Citizens in India Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Ravi K. Dhar, Rashmi Sharma, Neeru Johri
This study was carried out with the specific objectives of mapping the present level of mathematical skills of community members, and their radio listening behaviour preferences, with a view to making recommendations for the nature of radio programmes to be produced and broadcast among community members to enhance their numerical ability. To this end, the study employed quantitative research design
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Why I Do Not Talk About Computational Thinking in Journalism Classes: Sorry (Not Really Sorry) Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Kayt Davies
Paul Bradshaw nailed it a few years ago when he noted that despite calls as early as 2006 for newsrooms and their training grounds to change the way they think, ‘there is very little evidence of this being seriously addressed. Instead computational thinking is being taught earlier, to teenagers and younger children at school’ (Bradshaw, 2017, p. 1). This essay is a confession, a few excuses, but mainly
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Journalism Education in India: The Widening Gap Between Research and Practice Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2020-11-25 Aditya Sinha, Debabrata Basu
This article is based on reviews of studies in the field of journalism education in India after the proliferation of the Internet, particularly after the year 2010. The journalism practices have undergone a significant change in the past two decades, with the enabling of new information technologies, resulting in increased feedback from the audiences as well as globalized education opportunities for
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Book review: Hilde Van den Bulck, Manuel Puppis, Karen Donders, Leo Van Audenhove (eds). The Palgrave Handbook of Methods for Media Policy Research Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Preeti Raghunath
Hilde Van den Bulck, Manuel Puppis, Karen Donders, Leo Van Audenhove (eds). The Palgrave Handbook of Methods for Media Policy Research. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 681 pp, €187,19 (hardback).
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Editorial Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Sundeep R. Muppidi
We are living through an unusual scenario. The COVID-19 pandemic has caught us flat-footed and put the brakes on a lot of our lifestyle habits that we had taken for granted in a fast-paced, globalized world. As the world copes with this pandemic, the race is on to find a vaccine while people practice social distancing and other lifestyle changes. In the absence of any viable pharmacological solutions
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Use of Modals as Stance Markers: A Corpus-Based Study on Pakistani English Newspaper Editorials Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2020-09-15 Muhammad Ahmad, Muhammad Asim Mahmood, Ammara Farukh
This study analyses the use of modals as stance markers in newspaper editorials. Corpora of the study comprised of 500 editorials published in Pakistani English newspapers, that is, The Daily Dawn and The Daily News (250 editorials from each newspaper) which were analysed with the help of AntConc 3.4.4.0. Results show Pakistani editorial writers use all types of modals (i.e., prediction, possibility
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The Commonwealth Games 2018 and Event WIL: Inclusive Action for Journalism Education Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2020-09-15 Faith Valencia-Forrester
Journalism in higher education must find new ways of producing work-ready graduates who are prepared for the rapidly changing news media environment. Traditional internships are under increasing scrutiny over their quality and equitability. The past few years have seen a number of innovative models of work-integrated learning (WIL) emerging in journalism education. This article considers Event WIL
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Bearing Witness: A Pacific Climate Crisis Documentary and Journalism Development Project Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2020-09-15 David Robie, Jim Marbrook
A three-year Pacific climate research and storytelling documentary and journalism project has contributed to a disruption and renewal theme in Pacific Island Countries development. Focused initially on Fiji, the project has involved three pairs of postgraduate students engaging with climate crisis challenges. Responding originally to the devastation and tragedy wrought in Fiji by Severe Tropical Cyclone
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Mediamorphosis of Regional Newspapers: Utilization of the Internet’s Potential by Kannada Media Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2020-09-15 Deepak B.J., Usha M. Rodrigues, Padma Rani
The advent of the internet has posed threats as well as offered new opportunities for the traditional news media industry. The innumerable potentials of the internet include instant delivery of news, multimedia content and other user-friendly features to media consumers. Since digital news consumption is proliferating in India, it is important to study how Indian regional newspapers have adapted to
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The Drift in Journalism Education in India vis-à-vis New Media: Use of New Media by Administrators/ Educators in Journalism Schools Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2020-09-15 Neha Jindal
With new media becoming the mainstay of the journalism industry, there is a change in curriculum and pedagogy in journalism education. Even with Web 2.0 becoming the main source of news dissemination, journalism educators will still be required to impart skills to the next generation on writing with clarity, organizing ideas cleanly and working efficiently as a team. The change will be in the methodology
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Book review: Biswajit Das (ed). Gandhian Thought and Communication: Rethinking the Mahatma in the Media Age Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2020-09-15 Aniruddha Jena
Biswajit Das (ed). Gandhian Thought and Communication: Rethinking the Mahatma in the Media Age. New Delhi, India: SAGE Publications, 2020, 271 pp., ₹1,095 (hardback). ISBN 9789353286682.
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Teaching Data Journalism: Insights for Indian Journalism Education Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2020-06-17 Geeta Kashyap, Harikrishnan Bhaskaran
With emergent subspecialties like data journalism bringing new skillsets and job roles, professionals and journalism educators find it difficult to imbibe the fast-changing industry demands. Such challenges in some countries and media industries put journalism educators in an advantageous position, offering them an agency to actively shape the contours of industry practice than getting shaped by it
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Broadening ‘Media’ for Development Communication: Alternative Channels Employed in Loja, Ecuador Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2020-02-12 Benjamin R. Bates, Claudia Nieto-Sanchez, Diana L. Marvel, Darwin Guerrero, Esteban G. Baus, Mario J. Grijalva
When communicators use media and communication to address problems of development, we seek to assess whether those interventions are grounded in current development challenges and in patterns of media use. Additional challenges emerge, however, from patterns in media use between those used by development communication professionals and those that are accessible to communities. Electronic media, such
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Editorial Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2020-02-12 Srinivas R. Melkote
I arrived in Iowa City in the Fall of 1980 to pursue graduate study in media and communication. I had already developed an interest in development communication study and practice by then. When I did my MS degree work in Bengaluru University in India, the Satellite Instruction Television Experiment (SITE) was launched by the Indian government. SITE was a huge experiment in bringing information, communication
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Book review: Richard Heeks (Ed.), Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2020-02-12 Mohammad Ala-Uddin
Richard Heeks (Ed.), Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D). Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2018, 410 pp, US$ 25.38. ISBN 9781138101807 (Hardcover)/9781138101814 (Paperback).
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Sustainable Discourse: A Critical Analysis of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Mohammad Ala-Uddin
Sustainability is a catchphrase in contemporary theory and practice of international development. It has become an epicentre of development debate following the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 by the United Nations (UN). Many view the new set of goals as a significant step in the field of development, but scholars and practitioners still grapple with reaching a consensus
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WhatsApp and Mobile Money: Ameliorating Crowdfunding for Social Change in Kenya Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Frankline Matanji
Use of WhatsApp as a social media technology and M-pesa, a mobile money service for crowdfunding in Kenya are proliferating at an incredible pace. Crowdfunding helps communities organize for effective participation in social and economic development and empowerment by making sure that members of the community get to benefit from services, such as access to social amenities and better infrastructure
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Book review: Brian Schrag and Kathleen J. Van Buren, Make Arts for a Better Life: A Guide for Working with Communities Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Mousumi De
Brian Schrag and Kathleen J. Van Buren, Make Arts for a Better Life: A Guide for Working with Communities. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018, 352 pp., $35. ISBN: 9780190878283 (pbk.); 9780190878276 (hardcover).
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What Is Alternative Modernity? Decolonizing Culture as Hybridity in the Asian Turn Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Mohan Jyoti Dutta
I am sitting here at what is a 2-day workshop on the ‘Asian turn’ in the Enchanted City.1 The conversations, one after another, turn to Asia, the Asia that is the source of revival. The celebratory rhetoric of the workshop makes visible the carnivalesque spirit around the ‘return’ of Asia. Here, to turn is to ‘re-turn’. What imaginaries of Asia are we returning to is a question that I am left wondering
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Towards a Professionalising of Communication for Development: A Strategy for Improving Aid Effectiveness Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Robert Agunga
Communication for development is an emerging academy and professionalism whose presence in development practice is more likely to increase aid effectiveness and improve the success rate of development programmes. This article presents the academy and professionalism communication for development (C4D). In particular, it describes the author’s familiarity with C4D and his attempt to raise it into an
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Palle Kanneeru Pedutundo (My Village Is Shedding Tears): A Subaltern Critique of the Derivative Form of Postcolonial Nationalism Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Satish Kolluri
In positioning myself at the intersection of development (support) communication, postcolonialism, and poststructuralism, I suggest that understanding the derivativeness of the postcolonial nation provides us with the appropriate context to grasp the economic evolution of development paradigms and formation of national and communitarian/communal subjectivities in the postcolonial world. I employ postcolonial
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Infrastructures of Feeling and the Right to the City Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Clayton Rosati
For over sixteen years, I have been tracing and retracing an idea through a set of projects involving the political economy and cultural politics of infrastructure—especially, the infrastructure of media. When I began those projects as a graduate student, my concern was a frustration with the image-centered studies of media and culture, which tended to get bogged down in representational politics and
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Media, Communication, Technology and Progressive Social Change: Exploring an Innovative Cross-disciplinary Understanding of Participatory Communication Using Complexity Theory Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Sundeep R. Muppidi
The use of the term 'development' presupposes higher and lower states. Based on the definition, different metrics are used to measure this change and assess the level of development. As words give meaning to this term, it is important to delineate it before we explore it further. Historically, communication for social change scholarship has been pegged within frameworks of predictable social behaviour
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From B-Boys to Broadway: Activism and Directed Change in Hip-hop Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Courtney Bliss
In this article, I examine how the dominant paradigm of development led to the Bronx being in a state of ruin, the development of hip-hop culture as a self-empowerment tool, and how that tool is used to direct change in blighted urban areas around the US through rap at all levels—from street corners to the Broadway stage. I use a combination of theories from development communication, ethnomusicology
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Driving Social Change Through Forum Theatre: A Study of Jana Sanskriti in West Bengal, India Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2019-09-03 Jharna Brahma, Vinod Pavarala, Vasuki Belavadi
This article examines Forum Theatre as a form of participatory communication for social change. Based on an ethnographic study of Jana Sanskriti ( JS), a Forum Theatre group working for over three decades in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, this article seeks to show how this form of theatre, developed by the Brazilian activist Augusto Boal, subverts the passivity inherent in the communicator–receiver
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Community Radio as Amplification of Rural Knowledge Sharing Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2019-08-28 Bridget Backhaus
Community radio’s relationship with the farming communities has a long history in India. The earliest successful experiments in community broadcasting involved both farmers and agriculture. In terms of development communication, community radio in India represents a confluence of somewhat conflicting paradigms. While community radio is generally presented as a highly democratic, participatory medium
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Social Context in Development Communication: Reflecting on Gender and Information and Communication Technologies for Development in Ghana Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2019-07-24 H. Leslie Steeves, Janet D. Kwami
This essay, an example of work that builds on Dr. Ascroft’s lessons, reports collaborative research on information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) in Ghana. We highlight two parallel dialogues—on ICT and on gender—that have been advanced globally. New ICTs are prone to the same biases as the older ICTs. Further, the dialogue on ICTs may use the rhetoric of inclusivity; but in
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Flipping the Diffusion of Innovations Paradigm: Embracing the Positive Deviance Approach to Social Change Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2019-07-11 Arvind Singhal, Peer Jacob Svenkerud
The classical diffusion of the innovations paradigm has faced criticism for reifying outside-in, expert-driven approaches to solving problems and for overlooking and rejecting local solutions. In this article, we argue that diffusion scholars should pay more attention to approaches such as positive deviance (PD) that enable communities to discover the wisdom they already have and then to act on it
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The Dynamics of Media Landscape and Media Policy in Indonesia Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2019-05-24 Vidi Sukmayadi
Democratization in communication is the starting point for mass media in achieving a prosperous information society. However, building an ideal democratic role of media is not trouble free. The incredible pace of the development of media industry in Indonesia in the last two decades poses at least two main threats to media consumers. First, the growth of the media industry in Indonesia has been driven
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Book review: Shakuntala Rao (Ed.), Indian Journalism in a New Era: Changes, Challenges, and Perspectives Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2019-05-24 Devina Sarwatay
Shakuntala Rao (Ed.), Indian Journalism in a New Era: Changes, Challenges, and Perspectives. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2019, 396 pp., ₹995 (hbk). ISBN 9780199490820.
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Humour Discourse in Internet Memes: An Aid in ESL Classroom Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2019-05-01 Vignesh Harshavardhan, David Wilson D, Mallika Vijaya Kumar
In the ever-changing classroom dynamics of the twenty-first century, teaching needs to be innovative in order to be effective. The youth of the present age are members of virtual societies communicating mostly through the digital medium. This digital communication has its effects on the traditional classroom lectures. There has been a marked decline in basic language skills. Learners are less attentive
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Gresham’s Law and News in a Post-Truth World Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2019-04-21 Branislav Kovacic
Economists and finance experts have studied how ‘bad money drives out good’ and formulated Gresham’s law (Mokyr, 2003). The law states that the more expensive money tends to disappear from circulation because it is counterfeited, hoarded, or exported. One can propose a similar principle in the news business – real, verified, and socially relevant news tends to be replaced by fake, unverified, and often
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Connecting Classroom with Newsroom in the Digital Age: An Investigation of Journalism Education in the UAE, UK and USA Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2019-04-12 Shujun Jiang, Ali Rafeeq
The development of information and communication technology—internet, mobile computing and easier and wider connectivity—is swiftly transforming the news industry. Conventional news production practices have been disrupted and have evolved to meet the needs of a new era of digital and online journalism. In the age of digital and non-linear journalism, the practices of newsgathering, production, distribution
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Mitigating Reputational Risk Through Image Repair Strategies Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2019-04-04 Ramesh Nair, Shairah Hana Sulaiman, Nor Azyyati Md Saad, Puspalata Suppiah, Maizura Lin
This article examines rhetorical strategies as well as the linguistic construction of those strategies in press releases put out by Cadbury Malaysia in response to accusations that it has failed to comply with halal certification standards. Drawing on image repair theory and the concept of the ideological square, six press releases were analysed to identify the rhetorical strategies as well as semantic
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The State of Feature Writing Today Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Matthew Ricketson, Caroline Graham
This commentary considers the changing nature of feature writing within the contexts of: multimedia tools, the online publishing landscape, shrinking newsrooms, changing revenue models, freelance markets, audience and story analytics and journalism education.