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Media, Race and Crime: Racial Perceptions and Criminal Culpability in a Multiracial National Context

Seow Ting Lee, Nguyen Phuoc Thien

International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 1 (2015), pp. 24-50

"This study contributes to the limited literature on race and crime in a multicultural Asian context. Based on a survey in Singapore, where multiracialism is a fundamental political pillar and yet discourse about race is mostly shunned, the findings suggest a relationship between media consumption a ... more

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How to Talk to Your Children About the Internet

Telenor Group (2015), 42 pp.

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The Poverty of Television: The Mediation of Suffering in Class-Divided Philippines

Jonathan Corpus Ong

London: Anthem Press (2015), 226 pp.

"Based on an extensive ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television. Arguing for an anthropological ethics of media, t ... more

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Inside the News: Challenges and Aspirations of Women Journalists in Asia and the Pacific

Paris; Bangkok: UNESCO; UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (2015), ix, 90 pp.

"On average across Asia and the Pacific, women make up 28.6 percent of the media workforce. The proportions are lower in decision-making roles in media organizations where women make up 17.9 percent of executive roles, 19.5 percent of senior editorial and 22.6 percent of mid-level editorial position ... more

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Community Information Flows to Reduce Inter-Communal Violence in Burma

Emily Speers Mears et al.

Search for Common Ground (2015), 71 pp.

"The research presented in this report aims to contribute towards a better understanding of the way in which rumors, hate speech, and manipulated information contribute to inter-communal conflict and outbreaks of inter-communal violence in Myanmar. It focuses on Muslim-Buddhist inter-communal confli ... ct in one urban and one peri-urban area: Lashio, the largest town in Shan state, and Amarapura, a former capital on the outskirts of Mandalay [...] People in Lashio and Amarapura draw upon a wide range of sources for information and news. They mainly obtain information by word of mouth from friends, colleagues, people who travel for their work, and figures of authority. They share this information by phone and online messaging services, and in markets, teashops and pagodas, as well as other places where people gather such as bus stations. Certain individuals in the community are regarded as trustworthy sources of information including religious leaders, teachers, bosses, government officials, and community leaders. Many people also have access to news applications on Facebook, and/or read journals and newspapers, listen to the radio, and watch TV in order to find out about news that affects them. People report a high level of skepticism about the news that they hear, particularly from sources like Facebook and government newspapers. They analyze not only the information itself but also the source of that information, and check whether it is accurate with people who live in the affected area, or by going to see for themselves. Family members or trusted community members are also consulted to verify or analyze news and information. Respondents also claim to try to verify information by checking different news sources. The more they can cross-reference, the more confident they are that the information is accurate. [...] The causes of inter-religious inter-communal conflict in Myanmar are not well understood. There is a long history of Muslim settlement in Myanmar, and of peaceful relations between Muslims and Buddhists. This changed with the arrival of the British, whose colonial policies brought an influx of Indians, including Muslims, to Myanmar. Specifically anti-Muslim (rather than anti-Indian) tensions first came to a head in 1938; however an inquiry into the anti-Muslim riots of that time found that while the riots had religious anti-Muslim undertones, the real causes were political, economic and social. There have been irregular outbreaks of anti-Muslim violence in subsequent decades, but unfortunately few detailed investigations or analyses of their causes, due to the difficulty of conducting research under the socialist and military governments, and to the sensitivity of the issue. This difficulty persists to the present. [...] Both Muslims and Buddhists are worried about religious violence, and the impact that it might have on the economy. However, most people in Lashio are probably more immediately worried about the fighting between the Tatmadaw and the ethnic armed groups that is taking place outside of Lashio, which has negative effect on the economy, on their livelihoods, and on their feelings of security, due to the numbers of internally displaced persons (IDPs) who have sought safety in Lashio. Ethnic groups in Lashio are concerned that the religious conflict will also have an impact on ethnic relations, due to the different religions amongst the ethnic groups. In Lashio, there is also a high level of anti-Chinese sentiment on the part of the Bamar and other ethnic groups. [...] The large amount of rumors about Muslims and about Muslim-Buddhist conflict that we heard in Lashio and Amarapura suggest that people are concerned about this conflict. Negative rumors contribute to the background levels of hatred and distrust of Muslims and serve to manifest tensions between the two communities. This kind of background hatred and distrust may not in itself result in violence. But it means that Buddhists and Muslims in these areas do not mix, and fosters an environment of suspicion and hostility, creating an enabling environment for violence. However, on their own, rumors are not sufficient to trigger violence. For every example of a situation where (true or false) rumors have triggered violence, there is an example where rumors have not triggered violence. Other factors – harder to identify – contribute to outbreaks of violence, and to the underlying conflict. It is essential that these factors be understood if the root causes of inter-communal conflict are to be addressed. KEY RECOMMENDATIONS With this analysis in mind, the following recommendations are provided: recognize the important role that word-of-mouth communication plays in the ways that rumors are spread; recognize and understand the nuances in each local context, in order to develop a deeper understanding of why people feel insecure, as well as to identify root causes of the conflict; mitigate the background levels of anti-Muslim hate speech, by engaging with the genuine Buddhist concerns that are expressed through hate speech; and strengthen community resilience to potential ‘trigger’ rumors – and recognize and strengthen existing efforts to combat these rumors." (Executive summary, page 3-7) more

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Protecting the Sacred: An Analysis of Local Perspectives on Holy Site Protection in Four Areas in Indonesia

Suhadi

Search for Common Ground (SFCG) (2015), 75 pp.

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Digital, Social & Mobile in APAC in 2015: We Are Social and IAB Singapore's Compendium of Asia-Pacific Digital Statistics

Simon Kemp

Singapore: We Are Social; IAB Singapore (2015), 319 slides

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Standards of Journalism Education: An International Comparative Study in the Context of Media and Development

Christoph Schmidt (ed.)

Leipzig; Bonn: Vistas; Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2015), 265 pp.

"Training and educating of journalists around the world with the aim of enhancing free and independent media has been a major field of media development cooperation for decades. Nevertheless, the state of scientific research in this area remains limited, specifically with regard to the status quo of ... more

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Blasphemy Law in Muslim-Majority Countries: Religion-State Relationship and Rights Based Approaches in Pakistan, Indonesia and Turkey

Haidar Adam

Budapest: Central European University, Master Thesis (2015), iii, 61 pp.

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Untold Stories: How Corruption and Conflicts of Interest Stalk the Newsroom
Deep Insights

London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), v, 82 pp.

"This report, which has been produced by a group of distinguished journalists and their supporters, examines the broad scope of the crisis. It covers countries where media are on the frontline of tough political battles, such as Egypt and Turkey. In Ukraine, for instance, the practice of paid-for jo ... urnalism is a tool routinely used by politicians at election time. The same is true in India. In other countries, including Nigeria, Philippines, and Colombia the precarious working conditions of news staff provide fertile conditions for corruption and “brown envelopes” or under-the-table cash payments to reporters and editors which are a routine feature of journalistic work. The struggles facing journalists in settled democracies, such as the United Kingdom and Denmark, are less brazen, but no less challenging and in a range of countries across the Western Balkans with a shared and painful history, media corruption hinders aspirations to break free from the legacy of war, censorship and political control during decades of communist rule. The story is of an uphill struggle. Everywhere there is a crisis of confidence inside newsrooms caused by crumbling levels of commitment to ethics, a lowering of the status of journalistic work and a pervasive lack of transparency over advertising, ownership and corporate and political affiliations. Government control over lucrative state advertising, which is often allocated to media according to their political bias, remains widespread. At the same time, the elimination in most countries of the invisible wall separating editorial and advertising has created a surge of so-called “native advertising,” hidden advertorials and paid-for journalism. It was this conflict of interest that plunged the crisis-prone UK press into a new bout of handwringing in February 2015 when Peter Oborne, a leading political journalist, quit his job at the Daily Telegraph accusing the management of censoring stories about HSBC bank, a leading advertiser caught up in a tax scandal. These reports tell essentially the same story of deep cuts in editorial investment, undue pressure on newsrooms, and media increasingly dependent upon atypical models of ownership in which media have become the trophy possessions of powerful figures and institutions in pursuit of wider corporate and political objectives." (Introduction, page iii-iv) more

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The Role of Community-Based Media in Strengthening, Preserving, and Promoting Identity and Culture: A Case Study in Eastern Thailand

Pisapat Youkongpun

Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, volume 1, issue 3 (2015), pp. 197-210

"The purpose of this thesis is to investigate and analyse the role of community-based media in information distribution in the Riverside community, Chanthaburi province, Eastern Thailand. Recently, this strong community has been identified as a cultural tourism destination. The community has started ... more

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Talkback Programming: Cambodia Communication Assistance Project. Impact Research Briefing

ABC International Development (2015), 14 pp.

"The Cambodia Communication Assistance Project (CCAP) is a media development initiative (2012-2014) funded by Australia’s aid program. The project is implemented by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s International Development (ABCID) unit, in collaboration with four Cambodian Provincial D ... more

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Media Hounded by Junta Since 2014 Coup

Benjamin Ismail

Reporters Without Borders (2015), 43 pp.

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Finding a Voice Through Humanitarian Technologies? Communication Technologies and Participation in Disaster Recovery

Mirca Madianou, Liezel Longboan, Jonathan Corpus Ong

International Journal of Communication, volume 9 (2015), pp. 3020-3038

"Voice—understood as the ability to give an account of oneself and participate in social processes—is increasingly recognized as significant for humanitarian action and disaster recovery. Giving disaster-affected people the opportunity to make their voices heard has the potential to democratize ... more

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Indonesian Comics in Island of Images: Rich and Diverse, and Well Into the Future. Comics Exhibition in Pavillon of Indonesia, Frankfurt Book Fair 2015

Iwan Gunawan, Hikmat Darmawan (eds.)

Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurt Book Fair (2015), 24 pp.

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Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt, Russia and Vietnam

Zachary Abuza, Sherif Mansour, Maria Snegovaya

Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED); International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 57 pp.

"The three case studies depict a range of repressive efforts that are calibrated to achieve particular ends. Sometimes, the authorities choose to co-opt independent voices. In other instances, the regime may create new government-backed versions of media initiatives or civic organizations which mimi ... more

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Why Information Matters: A Foundation for Resilience
Deep Insights

Tara Susman-Peña

Internews (2014), 84 pp.

"This report: 1. Defines “information ecosystems” and proposes an analytic framework of eight critical dimensions for understanding them; 2. Analyzes information ecosystems across a spectrum of change and their impact on resilience, referencing four case studies of Internews’ previous work [In ... more

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Foreign Correspondents and International Newsgathering: The Role of Fixers

Colleen Murrell

New York: Routledge (2014), 176 pp.

"This book reveals that 'fixers'—local experts on whom foreign correspondents rely—play a much more significant role in international television newsgathering than has been documented or understood. Murrell explores the frames though which international reporting has traditionally been analysed ... more

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Losing Control: Freedom of the Press in Asia

Louise Williams, Roland Rich (eds.)

Canberra: Australian National University (ANU) E Press (2014), xvi, 282 pp.

"Losing Control: freedom of the press in Asia takes us right up to the end of this tumultuous century. It deals with the Chinese media cranking up its latest propaganda campaign, this time against the Falun Gong. It discusses how the Indonesian media lost its way in reporting the tragedy in East Tim ... more

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Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives, Vol. 2

Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen (eds.)

New York: Peter Lang (2014), xii, 406 pp.

Untold Stories: How Corruption and Conflicts of Interest Stalk the Newsroom Deep Insights

Why Information Matters: A Foundation for Resilience Deep Insights

Untold Stories: How Corruption and Conflicts of Interest Stalk the Newsroom
Deep Insights

Why Information Matters: A Foundation for Resilience
Deep Insights