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Focus: New Media

ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, volume 9, issue 2 (2016), pp. 187-318

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Mobile Media, Political Participation, and Civic Activism in Asia: Private Chat to Public Communication

Ran Wei (ed.)

Dordrecht: Springer (2016), xv, 236 pp.

"This book explores how personalized content and the inherent networked nature of the mobile media could and do lead to positive externalities in social progress in Asian societies. Empirical studies that examine uses of the mobile phone and apps (voice mailing, SMS, mobile social media, mobile Weib ... more

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Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia

Larissa Hjorth, Olivia Khoo (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 475 pp.

"While a decade ago much of the discussion of new media in Asia was couched in Occidental notions of Asia as a "default setting" for technology in the future, today we are seeing a much more complex picture of contesting new media practices and production. As "new media" becomes increasingly an ever ... more

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"They Can Arrest You at Any Time": The Criminalization of Peaceful Expression in Burma

Linda Lakhdhir et al.

Human Rights Watch (2016), 87 pp.

"Focusing largely on the period since retired general Thein Sein assumed the presidency in 2011, the report provides an in-depth analysis of the Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Processions Act, the Telecommunications Act, the News Media Law, the Electronic Transactions Act, and various Penal Code pro ... more

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Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and its Threat to Democracy

Cherian George

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2016), xviii, 308 pp.

"Outbreaks of religious intolerance are usually assumed to be visceral and spontaneous. But in 'Hate Spin', Cherian George shows that they often involve sophisticated campaigns manufactured by political opportunists to mobilize supporters and marginalize opponents. Right-wing networks orchestrate th ... more

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Journalists in Indonesa

Nurhaya Muchtar, Maskudi

Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 6 pp.

"With regards to professional roles, Indonesian journalists found it most important to report things as they are, educate their audience, promote tolerance and cultural diversity, let people express their opinions and advocate for social change. Interviewed journalists also found it very important t ... more

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Assessment of Media Development in Myanmar: Based on UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators

Bangkok; Copenhagen: UNESCO;International Media Support (IMS) (2016), xxvii, 132 pp.

"Myanmar should sign and ratify international treaties which pertain to freedom of expression, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the (first) Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Convention on the Elimina ... more

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Public Service Media Initiatives in the Global South

Anis Rahman, Gregory Ferrell Lowe (eds.)

Burnaby: Simon Fraser University Library (2016), xiii, 131 pp.

"While acknowledging the significant contributions of the public service broadcasting heritage in the Global North in efforts to establish such provision in the Global South, the contributors explain why simple imitation is unlikely to ever work well enough across such a diverse range of countries a ... more

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Use of Mobile Phones by the Rural Poor: Gender Perspectives from Selected Asian Countries

Gerard Sylvester (ed.)

Bangkok: FAO;LIRNEasia;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2016), xii, 51 pp.

"A qualitative study was conducted in Indonesia and Sri Lanka to understand the varied perceptions on the use and ownership of mobile phones [...] The study was conducted amongst four groups of people (urban men, urban women, rural men, and rural women) in each of two countries. The study found that ... more

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Climate Change Reporting for Rural Broadcasters: Mobilizing the Philippine Media for Climate Change Awareness

Amy Christine Cruz, Louie Tabing, Rex Navarro

Copenhagen: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) (2016), 28 pp.

"Radio broadcasting is an important means for reaching, informing and engaging rural communities in the Philippines. Many households in fact rely on radio for their information and communication needs. Media practitioners are therefore important actors in the communication process, especially in com ... more

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Media Ownership Monitor Philippines

Reporters Without Borders (2016), 699 pp.

"Two giant broadcast networks dominate the Philippine media industry both in terms of economic market power and audience reach, which gives them a major potential to shape public opinion. Despite a high number of media outlets and being described as one of the most freewheeling media systems in the ... more

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The War Correspondent

Greg McLaughlin

London: Pluto Press, 2nd ed. (2016), x, 267 pp.

"This book has presented a critical, historically grounded analysis of the role of the war correspondent. It has highlighted the risks, the problems and the failures that have defined the role but it has also given credit where that is due and acknowledged the inspirational example of correspondents ... more

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Experiences of Peer Bullying Among Adolescents and Associated Effects on Young Adult Outcomes: Longitudinal Evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Viet Nam

Kirilly Pells, María José Ogando Portela, Patricia Espinoza Revollo

Florence: UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti (2016), 61 pp.

"Being bullied has been found to have a significant impact on children’s physical and mental health, psychosocial well-being and educational performance, with lasting effects into adulthood on health, well-being and lifetime earnings. Little is known about bullying in low- and middle-income countr ... more

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Burmese Media in Transition

Lisa Brooten

International Journal of Communication, volume 10 (2016), pp. 182-199

"This article offers an assessment of media and their role in the ongoing political transition in Myanmar, and an overview of lessons learned from other countries undergoing transition. It demonstrates how media function in this process as active agents of stability, restraint, change, or all three, ... more

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Voices for Reconciliation: Assessing Media Outreach and Survivor Engagement for Case 002 at the Khmer Rouge Trials

Christoph Sperfeldt, Melanie Hyde, Mychelle Balthazard

East-West Center (2016), 74 pp.

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Disaster Risk Reduction Information Kit for Media

Vientiane Capital (LA): Department of Disaster Management and Climate Change (DDMCC) (2016), 61 pp.

"The media can make a real difference in the way people think about and act on disasters. Reporters, commentators, editors, broadcasters, and all members of the media can do more than just inform and raise awareness about disasters. By exploring the root causes of disasters and their social dimensio ... more

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New Social Media and Politics in Thailand: The Emergence of Fascist Vigilante Groups on Facebook

Wolfram Schaffar

ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, volume 9, issue 2 (2016), pp. 215-233

"Since 2010, Facebook has become a battleground between competing political camps in Thailand. Facebook groups like the Social Sanction group, tellingly abbreviated as SS, and the Rubbish Collector Organization, which was founded in 2014 and has attracted more than 200,000 members, have played a cru ... more

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Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond: Narratives, Cultural Contexts, Audiences

Peter J. Bräunlein, Andrea Lauser (eds.)

Leiden; Boston, MA: Brill (2016), xiii, 295 pp.

"Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond explores ghost movies, one of the most popular film genres in East and Southeast Asia, by focusing on movie narratives, the cultural contexts of their origins and audience reception. In the middle of the Asian crisis of the late 1990s, ghost movies became m ... more

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A Textual Processing Model of Risk Communication: Lessons from Typhoon Haiyan

Raul P. Lejano, Joyce Melcar Tan, A. Meriwether W. Wilson

American Meteorological Society, volume 8, issue 4 (2016), pp. 447-463

"As the world's urban poor increase in numbers, they become acutely vulnerable to hazards from extreme weather events. On 8 November 2013, Typhoon Haiyan struck the province of Leyte, Philippines, with casualties numbering in the thousands, largely because of the ensuing storm surge that swept the c ... more

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Audience Responses to Peace Journalism: Merging Results from a Four-Country Research Study

Annabel McGoldrick, Jake Lynch

Journalism Studies, volume 17, issue 5 (2016), pp. 628-646

"This article shows how results were merged from a study conducted in four countries-Australia, the Philippines, South Africa and Mexico-in which differently versioned television news stories about conflict were played to audiences, and their responses gathered through a mix of methods, to yield bot ... more