mediadev library

Sort by:

Direction:

Download (0)

Informing Citizens: Opportunities for Media and Communications in the Pacific

Helen Molnar

In: South Pacific Islands Communication: Regional Perspectives, Local Issues

Evangelia Papoutsaki, Usha Sundar Harris (eds.)

Singapur: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (2008), pp. 34-58

"The Pacific Media & Communications Facility (PMCF) was a three-year regional media governance project involving the 14 Pacific Island Forum countries. It was funded by the Australian government and commenced in May 2004. The report “Informing Citizens: Opportunities for media and communications i ... more

External Link (13)

Two Models for Pacific Islands Journalism Education

Steve Sharp, Evangelia Papoutsaki

In: South Pacific Islands Communication: Regional Perspectives, Local Issues

Evangelia Papoutsaki, Usha Sundar Harris (eds.)

Singapur: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (2008), pp. 82-101

"The intellectual undernourishment of journalism education and research is tied to wider problems in Pacific academic culture. On a macro level, Pacific media communities can apply their own social capital to the task of media development according to their own agendas, drawing on sound data and ana ... more

External Link (12)

Changing Paradigms in Media Education Aid in the Pacific

David Robie

In: South Pacific Islands Communication: Regional Perspectives, Local Issues

Evangelia Papoutsaki, Usha Sundar Harris (eds.)

Singapur: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (2008), pp. 59-81

"Journalism education (based for most of the past three decades at three Pacific universities) and industry short-course training have followed different yet parallel paths in the region. Aid donors have played important roles in both sectors, although often not particularly well coordinated. While ... journalism education was being established in the region for the first time at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1975, media industry executives met to plan a strategy to boost on-the-job training and to defend themselves from growing pressures from post-colonial governments. The industry established the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA), which became a major regional media lobby group. Subsequently, the region’s state broadcasters broke away in 1988 to form a rival body, Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association (PIBA), and to establish the region’s first news cooperative, Pacnews. For a brief three-year period between 1988 and 1991, the university journalism education sector and industry training managed reasonable cooperation under UNESCO’s Pacjourn project. During this time, UPNG hosted Pacjourn and its staff of media academics and trainers ran short-courses for the benefit of the media industry. The focus then swung back to Fiji with a new UNESCO project leading to the establishment of the PINA-initiated Pacific Journalism Training Development Centre. While the UPNG Journalism Programme was funded initially by New Zealand aid, DWU was a private institution funded primarily by the Catholic Church and staffed mainly by volunteers. The degree programme founded at USP in the mid 1990s was funded by the French government for four years. In 1994, the Fiji media industry established a vocational training centre, the Fiji Journalism Institute (FJI), with UNESCO and other donor funding assistance along with the Fiji government, which provided office space. Although this venture collapsed after six years under a cloud over financial accountability, both the Fiji Media Council and PINA moved to revive the centre through the Fiji Institute of Technology. The Samoa Polytechnic (now the Samoa Institute of Technology) also established a vocational journalism school in 2002. Fiji has been the only Pacific country where the media industry has established a vocational programme competing with an established journalism school at a university—the region’s largest. This has prompted concerns about duplication and wastage of resources. AusAID, through its Pacific Media and Communications Facility and its associated Media in Development Initiative programme in Papua New Guinea, has gained ascendancy in the region as a media aid donor—and in most other fields, too. It has sought to achieve greater coordination in the region’s media training and aid cooperation between agencies. This also led to the merger of PINA and PIBA in 2004 for the benefit of the region. However, this trend has also led to growing concern in media and academic circles over a loss of independence and sovereignty over media training and educational policies—is aid a panacea or Pandora’s box for media training and education sustainability? It is critical for governance that future media training aid should have more transparency with funds being spread more evenly across several agencies so that no single industry group effectively holds too much power over journalism training policy. And the media should become proactive over reportage and debate over media aid issues and challenge conflicts of interest. Non-government organisations such as AusAID and the UN organisations need to tackle aid policy more robustly to push for a new funding paradigm in support of the Fourth Estate in the region in the digital age." (Conclusion) more

Google Scholar (11)

WorldCat (12)

Community Development and Church-Based Radio Broadcasting in Papua New Guinea

Joys Eggins

In: South Pacific Islands Communication: Regional Perspectives, Local Issues

Evangelia Papoutsaki, Usha Sundar Harris (eds.)

Singapur: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (2008), pp. 206-218

"It is my hypothesis that church-based radio stations can contribute to community development. A total of 50 respondents out of 60 confirm that they listen to and understand community-development programmes through these stations. The messages are either fully understood, or partially in cases where ... more

Google Scholar (9)

WorldCat (8)

Community Broadcasting: Concept and Practice in the Philippines

Felix Librero

Singapore: Eastern Universities Press (EUP); Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC); Nanyang Technological University (2004), 95 pp.

Google Scholar (9)

WorldCat (9)

Cyber Communities in Rural Asia: A Study of Seven Asian Countries

Kavita Karan (ed.)

Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Academic; Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (2004), vi, 293 pp.

Google Scholar (10)

WorldCat (10)

Rhetoric and Reality: The Internet Challenge for Democracy in Asia

Indrajit Banerjee (ed.)

Singapore: Eastern Universities Press (EUP); Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC); Nanyang Technological University (2003), ix, 325 pp.

Google Scholar (8)

WorldCat (7)

Asian Women in the Information Age: New Communication Technology, Democracy and Women

Ila Joshi (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (1998), vii, 205 pp.

Google Scholar (8)

WorldCat (8)

Opening Windows: Issues in Communication. The Silver Jubilee Collection

Anura Goonasekera, Yeap Soon Beng, Arun Mahizhnan (comp.)

Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (1996), 289 pp.

Google Scholar (10)

WorldCat (9)

Having Fun with Media

Madras: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (1995), 91 pp.

Google Scholar (11)

WorldCat (11)

Media Education: A Teaching Manual

Laguna: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (1995), xii, 272 pp.

Google Scholar (9)

WorldCat (9)

See, Judge, Act: A Media Kit for the Community Worker

Madras: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (1995), 108 pp.

Google Scholar (9)

WorldCat (10)

Broadcasting Glossary

Pat Alexander (comp.)

Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (1994), 110 pp.

Google Scholar (7)

WorldCat (7)

Press Systems in SAARC

Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (1994), xii, 103 pp.

Google Scholar (7)

WorldCat (7)

Communication Education and the Needs of the Media

Singapore; Kuala Lumpur: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC); Asia Foundation (1994), 156 pp.

Google Scholar (8)

WorldCat (9)

Mirror on the Wall: Media in a Singapore Election

Eddie C. Y. Kuo, Duncan Holaday, Eugenia Peck

Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (1993), 132 pp.

Google Scholar (7)

WorldCat (7)

Mass Media Laws and Regulations in India

K. S. Venkateswaran (comp.)

Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (1993), xiii, 665 pp.

Google Scholar (8)

WorldCat (8)

Mahaweli Community Radio: A Sri Lankan Experiment in Broadcasting and Development

Victor T. Valbuena (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (1993), xii, 183 pp.

Google Scholar (8)

WorldCat (9)

Asian Communication Handbook

Anura Goonasekera, Duncan Holaday (eds.)

Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (1993), xvii, 524 pp.

Google Scholar (10)

WorldCat (10)

Social Impact of Satellite Television in Rural Indonesia

Godwin C. Chu, Alfian, Wilbur Schramm

Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (1991), xii, 272 pp.