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Managing News In A Managed Media: Mediating The Message In Malaysiakini.Com, A. Pang
Managing News In A Managed Media: Mediating The Message In Malaysiakini.Com, A. Pang
Asia Pacific Media Educator
Widely regarded as an anomaly in the neo-authoritarian system in Malaysia, Malaysiakini.com is proving that managing an independent media in a government-managed media landscape is more than a Sisyphean struggle. Employing participant observation and interviews, supplemented by artifacts and media accounts, this study seeks to understand the media management of Malaysiakini.com through news management, using Shoemaker and Reese’s (1996) hierarchy of influence model, which posits a framework of internal and external forces that affect news management. The study found determined attempts to minimize ideological influences through media socialization by accentuating on the direct influences, such as the journalists’ role in …
Blogging As Pedagogic Practice: Artefact And Ecology, Marcus O'Donnell
Blogging As Pedagogic Practice: Artefact And Ecology, Marcus O'Donnell
Asia Pacific Media Educator
Much of the published discussion and research on blogs and teaching and learning in higher education focuses on evaluation of blogging as a communicative technique. This type of discussion largely assumes that successful integration of blogging into course delivery should be judged against a pre-existing and unchallenged pedagogical model. This paper argues that to leverage its full educational potential blogging must be understood not just as an isolated phenomena, but as part of a broad palette of cybercultural practices which provide us with new ways of doing and thinking. The paper looks at the ways broader theoretical models associated with …