commbox Southeast Asia

Filter

1541

Sort by:

Direction:

Download (1)

Lessons in Innovation: How International News Organisations Combat Disinformation Through Mission-Driven Journalism
Inspiring Practice

Julie Posetti, Felix Simon, Nabeelah Shabbir

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 41 pp.

"This report examines how digital-born news media in the Global South have developed innovative reporting and storytelling practices in response to growing disinformation problems. Based on field observation and interviews at Rappler in the Philippines, Daily Maverick in South Africa, and The Quint ... more

Download (0)

Exploring Digital and Mobile Cultures in Myanmar 2019

Thant Sin Oo, Ye Min Thant

Phandeeyar (2019), 41 pp.

Download (1)

Futuros criativos

André Nabais, Alexandro Cardoso, Débora Sanches, Fátima Proença et al.

Lisboa: ACEP Associação para a Cooperação Entre os Povos (2019), 239 pp.

Download (1)

Transnational Othering – Global Diversities: Media, Extremism and Free Expression
Top Insights

Elisabeth Eide, Kristin Skare Orgeret, Nil Mutluer (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2019), 332 pp.

Download (0)

Holding the Line: South East Asia Media Freedom Report 2019

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2019), 69 pp.

External Link (10)

Mobile Connectivity in Emerging Economies: Publics See Mobile Phones and Social Media Bringing Certain Benefits to Them and Their Societies. But These Views Are Paired with Widespread Concerns About Their Impact on Children

Laura Silver, Aaron Smith, Courtney Johnson, Kyle Taylor, Jingjing Jinag, Monica Anderson, Lee Rainie

Pew Research Center (2019), 92 pp.

"Surveys conducted in 11 emerging and developing countries across four global regions [Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia; South Africa and Kenya; India, Vietnam and the Philippines; and Tunisia, Jordan and Lebanon] find that the vast majority of adults in these countries own – or have access to – a ... more

Download (0)

Yangon Film School’s Advanced Filmmaking Course Project: Independent Evaluation

Helsinki: Vikes (2019), 64 pp.

Google Scholar (12)

WorldCat (11)

Journalism and Journalism Education in Developing Countries
Top Insights

Beatrice Dernbach, Beate Illg (eds.)

Manipal, Kanartaka: Manipal Universal Press (2019), vi, 250 pp.

"This book provides an international perspective on the different aspects of journalism – the situation in which journalists work, their working conditions, educational backgrounds, struggles and successes. It is aimed at an international public interested in the field of journalism and freedom of ... more

External Link (11)

Google Scholar (10)

WorldCat (12)

A Realist Evaluation of a Community-Centered Radio Initiative for Health and Development in Mindanao, Philippines

Ross W. James, Eila Romo-Murphy, Mae-Mosette Oczon-Quirant

Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, volume 31, issue 6 (2019), pp. 559-571

"A small, local-level communication initiative aimed to bring about social change and development in communities affected by sustained conflict in Mindanao, Philippines. A realist evaluation involved a secondary analysis of existing data sets that revealed previously undetected mechanisms and 13 out ... more

External Link (12)

Google Scholar (12)

WorldCat (11)

Communicating for Social Change: Meaning, Power, and Resistance

Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Dazzelyn Baltazar Zapata (eds.)

Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xx, 413 pp.

"The book covers the trajectories and trends in social change communication, engaging the key theoretical debates on communication and social change. Attending to the concepts of communication and social change that emerge from and across the global margins, the book works toward offering theoretica ... more

Google Scholar (4)

WorldCat (2)

Social Communication Needs for the Church in Myanmar: Towards an "Online Church"!

Lucia Thandar Aung

Manila: University of Santo Tomas, Master Thesis (2019), xiv, 152 pp.

"Radio Veritas Asia-Myanmar Service (RVA-MS) had been broadcasting socio-political and religious programming in Shortwave (SW) since November 11, 1978. However, on 30 June 2018, RVA stopped broadcasting in SW and migrated to the internet-based multiplatform broadcasting along with the use of Social ... more

Download (0)

"Privacy is Not a Concept, But a Way of Dealing with Life": Localization of Transnational Technology Platforms and Liminal Privacy Practices in Cambodia

Margaret Jack, Pang Sovannaroth, Nicola Dell

In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

New York: Association for Computing Machinery (2019), 19 pp.

"This paper describes findings from a qualitative research study that examines practices and perceptions of privacy in Cambodia as the population rapidly moves into an online environment (specifically Facebook, the most popular Internet tool in Cambodia today). We empirically demonstrate how the con ... more

Download (0)

Social and Behaviour Change Communication with Maternal and Child Cash Transfers in Myanmar: Lessons Learned from Tat Lan, LEGACY and Bright SUN Programmes

Save the Children (2019), 76 pp.

Download (0)

Mobile Myanmar: The Impact of Social Media on Young People in Conflict-Affected Regions of Myanmar

Brad Ridout, Melyn McKay, Krestina Amon et al.

Singapore: Save the Children;University of Sydney (2019), 137 pp.

"Most young people lack the digital citizenship skills required to protect themselves from the online dangers and emotional and mental health impacts of social media highlighted in this report. The study finds evidence that young people across Myanmar suffer from ‘hate speech fatigue’, often exa ... more

Download (0)

Harmful Disinformation in Southeast Asia: “Negative Campaigning”, “Information Operations” and “Racist Propaganda” – Three Forms of Manipulative Political Communication in Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand

Melanie Radue

Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia, volume 18, issue 2 (2019), pp. 68-89

"When comparing media freedom in Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand, so-called “fake news” appears as threats to a deliberative (online) public sphere in these three diverse contexts. However, “racist propaganda”, “information operations” and “negative campaigning” might be more accurat ... more

External Link (15)

Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia

Aswin Punathambekar, Sriram Mohan (eds.)

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2019), viii, 317 pp.

"Digital media histories are part of a global network, and South Asia is a key nexus in shaping the trajectory of digital media in the twenty-first century. Digital platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, and others are deeply embedded in the daily lives of millions of people around the world, shaping ho ... more

Download (0)

Collaborating with Refugees: Power, Ethics and Reciprocity in Documentary Filmmaking

Mandy Hughes

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, issue 18 (2019), pp. 160-174

"Representing stories through documentary film can offer a means to convey multilayered and sensory accounts of the lived experiences of people in extreme transition, especially former refugees. However, along with the potential of this medium comes the responsibility to engage with participants in ... more

Download (1)

Who's Listening? From Centre to Periphery. Understanding Narratives on Interethnic Sentiment at the Cambodian Border Through Facilitative Listening Design

Melissa Martin, Karen Simbulan (eds.)

Phnom Penh: Women Peace Makers (2019), 112 pp.

External Link (14)

When Celebrities Speak: A Nationwide Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination in Indonesia

Vivi Alatas, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Markus Mobius, Benjamin A. Olken, Cindy Paladines

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) (2019), 55 pp.

"Celebrity endorsements are often sought to influence public opinion. We ask whether celebrity endorsement per se has an effect beyond the fact that their statements are seen by many, and whether on net their statements actually lead people to change their beliefs. To do so, we conducted a nationwid ... more

Download (0)

Digital Media and Information Literacy Framework

Singapore: Ministry of Communications and Information (2019), 73 pp.

Lessons in Innovation: How International News Organisations Combat Disinformation Through Mission-Driven Journalism Inspiring Practice

Transnational Othering – Global Diversities: Media, Extremism and Free Expression Top Insights

Journalism and Journalism Education in Developing Countries Top Insights

Lessons in Innovation: How International News Organisations Combat Disinformation Through Mission-Driven Journalism
Inspiring Practice

Transnational Othering – Global Diversities: Media, Extremism and Free Expression
Top Insights

Journalism and Journalism Education in Developing Countries
Top Insights