"This paper explores the role of media in PNG and the reasons why they have failed to serve their audiences. It provides a background on media development in PNG; explores media ownership in PNG and offers a content analysis of what the two main newspapers and the country’s only television station
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consider to be the main news agenda. It also explores the potential radio has in filling in the existing informational gap." (Abstract)
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"From the establishment of the region's first journalism school at the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) in 1975 with New Zealand aid, Robie traces three decades of South Pacific media education history. He profiles journalism at UPNG, Divine World University and the University of the South Paci
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fic in Fiji with Australian, Commonwealth, French, New Zealand and UNESCO aid. He also examines the impact of the region's politics on the media in the two major economies, Fiji and Papua New Guinea - from the Bougainville conflict and Sandline mercenary crisis to Fiji's coups. The book draws on interviews, research, two news industry surveys, and the author's personal experience as a Pacific media educator." (Publisher description)
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"In these two volumes, readers will find comparative, in-depth essays on the press systems of 232 countries and/or territories. World Press Encyclopedia (WPE) is unique and valuable to users because, in addition to essays on each country’s press system, WPE also contains custommade graphs and stat
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istical tables, as well as regional maps, useful appendices, and an extensive index. This comprehensive, authoritative source of information allows for easy comparison between essays with a standard format or set of “rubrics” used whenever possible (see section titled “Essay Components”). Each essay also features basic data information—such as official country name, literacy rate, language(s), and number of daily newspapers—clearly marked with headings at the beginning of each entry. Additionally, WPE’s contributors include scholars, professionals, and educators from across the United States and around the world; each essay has a byline. Although this is the second edition, WPE has been completely reconceptualized and 100 percent revised from the first edition, which was published in 1982." (Introduction)
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"Taking 14 radio serial dramas from around the world shows that many aspects of the way they are organised are not replicable: what works in one context would just not work in another. This is because of the very nature of pro-social media projects: they depend so much on the personal contacts of th
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e producers, and the specific needs and tastes of the target audience. A successful model for one country may well not work in another, simply because there are so many variables. Having presented this caveat, the following is a list of replicable features gleaned from the 14 projects studied. More detail about how these features work in practice can be found in each case-study. The features have been selected because they either show up strongly across all projects, have been singled out by project-holders as the key to their success, or because they seem to have the potential for translating across countries and sectors." (Recommendations, page 21)
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"Why, in the current era of globalization, does nationality remain an important dimension of personal and collective identities? In Materializing the Nation, Robert J. Foster argues that the contested process of nation making in Papua New Guinea unfolds not only through organized politics but also t
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hrough mundane engagements with commodities and mass media. He offers a thoughtful critique of recent approaches to nationalism and consumption and an ethnographic perspective on constructs of the nation found in official policy documents, letters to the editor, school textbooks, song lyrics, advertisements, and other materials. This volume will appeal to readers interested in the links among nationalism, consumption, and media, in Melanesia and elsewhere." (Publisher description)
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"Carpenter begreift Medien als erweiterten Spiegel, als veräußerte Träume unseres Selbst, die uns, sobald wir mit ihnen in Berührung kommen, gefangen nehmen. Seine Zuneigung zu den Naturvölkern ermöglicht ihm Beobachtungen, die zeigen, wie sehr diese Medien in einen Bann schlagen." (Süddeutsc
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he Zeitung, 1994)
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"The International Broadcasting Audience Research Department (IBAR) of the BBC World Service presently commissions representative sample surveys of the adult populations of more than 20 different countries each year. Surveys reported in this compilation published first time in 1993 provide detailed
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information on the spread of radio and television in countries for which such data are otherwise difficult to obtain. The 1993 edition contains the only nationally representative radio and television surveys in Indonesia, Ghana and Senegal. Other surveys include Mozambique, Angola, Fiji and Nepal. The 1994/5 edition presents a report on the growth of audiences for satellite television in India, audience surveys in Macedonia, Albania, India, Kenya, Nigeria, the Czech Republic and Romania." (Catalogue Libbey 1995)
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