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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 …
Editor's Note: Contextualising The Teaching Of Journalism, Eric Loo
Editor's Note: Contextualising The Teaching Of Journalism, Eric Loo
Asia Pacific Media Educator
Three years ago in Toronto at the AEJMC pre-convention workshop I met with a group of journalism educators. We explored how we could better contextualise the delivery of journalism programmes to stay in tune with an internet-wired world. One of the imperatives we noted was to expose journalism students to learning opportunities where they could look at issues and affairs beyond the boundaries of their immediate community; and to develop in students the journalistic aptitude for interpreting and contextualising issues from a cross-cultural, ‘global’ perspective.
Beyond The 5ws + H: What Social Science Can Bring To J-Education, K.C. Boey
Beyond The 5ws + H: What Social Science Can Bring To J-Education, K.C. Boey
Asia Pacific Media Educator
THE pen is mightier than the sword. This axiom of journalism is at no time more apposite than in this terror-ridden post-9/11 world. Increasingly, nation-states and activist bloggers are realising that the power of the media and those who control it set the agenda for world politics and governance. Yet journalism educators reflexively trust this maxim among their charges to received wisdom. Or pedantically go on presuming this aphorism to be ingrained in them by the time they finish high school media studies. In this, educators sell short students – and fall short of their larger responsibility to our broken …
The Status And Relevance Of Vietnamese Journalism Education: An Empirical Analysis, A. Nguyen
The Status And Relevance Of Vietnamese Journalism Education: An Empirical Analysis, A. Nguyen
Asia Pacific Media Educator
Based primarily on data from indepth interviews with senior journalists and journalism educators as well as a content analysis of journalism curricula, this paper sets out to provide an overview of the demand, overall provision structure, teaching materials and methods of Vietnamese journalism education. It first shows that with a fast expansion in both size and substance, the Vietnamese media system is beginning to feel the urgent need for formal journalism education. However, the country’s major journalism programs have been criticised for producing hundreds of unqualified journalism graduates a year. In general, the most deplorable aspects of Vietnamese journalism education …
Intersections Of Community And Journalism In Australia And Singapore, K. Bowd
Intersections Of Community And Journalism In Australia And Singapore, K. Bowd
Asia Pacific Media Educator
The notion of “community” is a contested one, but one which is widely used across a range of fields and applications. For example, understandings of community in a country such as Singapore differ significantly from interpretations of community in a country such as Australia. In Singapore, notions of community are strongly influenced by language and cultural background, while in Australia, geography and distance are often key factors. Journalists’ relationships with the communities for whom and about whom they write are complicated by this imprecision and by the range of contexts and environments to which the term can be applied. However, …
An Independent Student Press: Three Case Studies For Fiji, Papua New Guinea And Aotearoa/New Zealand, D. Robie
An Independent Student Press: Three Case Studies For Fiji, Papua New Guinea And Aotearoa/New Zealand, D. Robie
Asia Pacific Media Educator
In spite of a relatively small but vibrant news media base, two South Pacific countries have been regional leaders in convergent publishing with both newspapers and online media as educational outcomes for student journalists. Universities in Fiji and Papua New Guinea have pioneered with various versions of an entrepreneurial and socially activist student press for three decades, including titles such as Uni Tavur (founded in 1975), Wansolwara (1996) and Liklik Diwai (1998). All three papers have strongly identified with a national development role. In 2003, Aotearoa/New Zealand’s AUT University began publishing Te Waha Nui as a regular professional course publishing …
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 …
"Cue Journalism": Media Should Stop Playing Follow-The-Leader, M. K. Anuar
"Cue Journalism": Media Should Stop Playing Follow-The-Leader, M. K. Anuar
Asia Pacific Media Educator
The mainstream media in Malaysia, as in most countries, are expected to break news to the public while an important event unfolds, or at the latest, shortly after it occurs. They are also supposed to be in the forefront, probing and pushing vital issues to centre-stage. That’s why under normal circumstances we would expect the media to analyse, for example, the implications of new legislation or amendments to existing laws or the impact of a technological or medical breakthrough. The media are also expected to provide a platform for intelligent debate among interested parties on a controversy or policy matters …
Profile Interview: Keeping Emotions Intact In War Reporting: Shahanaaz Habib, Eric Loo
Profile Interview: Keeping Emotions Intact In War Reporting: Shahanaaz Habib, Eric Loo
Asia Pacific Media Educator
Interview with Shahanaaz Habib. News Editor, The Star, Malaysia. Author of Between Blood & Bombs, Times Publishing, Malaysia 2005.
The Trouble With Pictures, K. Biber, M. San Roque
The Trouble With Pictures, K. Biber, M. San Roque
Law Text Culture
The trouble with pictures contributes to an emerging field that explores the myriad of relationships between law and visual culture. The last decade or so has seen the consolidation of ‘visual culture’ into a recognised field of interdisciplinary — even postdisciplinary — study, its permeable borders now enclosing law. When Douzinas and Nead published their collection Law and the Image they characterised what has been the traditional relationship of law and art in two analytically distinct ways: ‘law’s art, the ways in which political and legal systems have shaped, used and regulated images and art, and art’s law, the representation …
William Gregory From The Innocents, T. Simon
William Gregory From The Innocents, T. Simon
Law Text Culture
Artist: Taryn Simon
Artwork: William Gregory
Wick’s Parlor, Louisville, Kentucky
With fiancée Vicki Kidwell, whom he dated prior to conviction
Gregory was a pool champion in prison
Served 7 years of a 70-year sentence
Get The Picture: Central Australian Indigenous Paintings, Which Reveal Collaborative Thought About Contemporary Social Situations, C. San Roque
Law Text Culture
In central Australian languages the words for ‘thinking’ and ‘understanding’ are the words for ‘listening’ and ‘hearing’. The root verb, kulini (Pitjantjatjatjara) leads to kulinara palyani; ‘to plan or work out how to do something’. This is what we are doing here; looking at these paintings; trying to ‘get the picture’ and attending to what the pictures reveal.
When The Artwork Takes The Pictures, M. Astore
When The Artwork Takes The Pictures, M. Astore
Law Text Culture
I came to Australia on 26 December 1975 due to the outbreak of civil war in Lebanon. The war erupted in our neighbourhood and a Christian militia began recruiting local boys, including my younger brother. Choosing not to take part in the violence, we rushed to the Australian Embassy to apply for a visa. Thankfully it was still open for business. We applied for an immigration visa and within 6 months flew to Melbourne to where my uncle lived. We arrived with the status of ‘migrants’ and not as ‘refugees’. A few weeks later the Australian Embassy in Beirut closed …
Photographs And Labels: Against A Criminology Of Innocence, K. Biber
Photographs And Labels: Against A Criminology Of Innocence, K. Biber
Law Text Culture
In 2000 the American photographer Taryn Simon began photographing people whose criminal convictions had been overturned through the work of the Innocence Project. Founded at Cardozo Law School, the Innocence Project aims to acquit falsely-convicted people by introducing evidence that was unavailable or not admitted during their trial. Mostly, the new evidence is derived from DNA technology which, for reasons of overwhelming scientific acceptance, is regarded as definitive. In 2003 Simon’s series The Innocents was exhibited at PS.1, an established centre of contemporary art in New York, with proceeds from sales going to support the continued work of the Innocence …
Fugitive Performances Of Death And Injury, R. Scott Bray
Fugitive Performances Of Death And Injury, R. Scott Bray
Law Text Culture
A legal trial, Felman states, ‘is presumed to be a search for truth, but, technically, it is a search for a decision, and thus, in essence, it seeks not simply truth but a finality: a force of resolution’ (1997: 738). The opening quote to my article reflects one scene of an attempt to support such resolution — that is, a search for knowledge of the ‘actual’ force required to injure a body, thereby eliminating or limiting speculation. Associate Professor John Hilton, a forensic pathologist and the former Director of the New South Wales Institute of Forensic Medicine (NSWIFM, also known …
Suburban Interventions, A Question Of Property, And Assigned Value (Title), S. Muñoz-Sarmiento
Suburban Interventions, A Question Of Property, And Assigned Value (Title), S. Muñoz-Sarmiento
Law Text Culture
Suburban Interventions, A Question of Property, and Assigned Value (title) originated in West Texas in 2000, and since then these projects have been installed or taken place in diverse locations throughout the United States: from Los Angeles, California to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and from El Paso, Texas to Cambridge, Massachusetts. These three art projects incorporate and juxtapose the disciplines of sculpture and architecture with the Western legal discourses of property, First Amendment, and intellectual property law. In particular, these projects invoke, and thus critique, the assumed universality and normativity of Western jurisprudence.
Dirty Pictures: Defamation, Reputation And Nudity, D. Rolph
Dirty Pictures: Defamation, Reputation And Nudity, D. Rolph
Law Text Culture
There are many ways to damage a reputation. The most obvious way is by words, written or spoken — libel or slander. Centuries of case law, however, disclose that defamation defendants have been endlessly inventive about the means by which they damage a plaintiff’s reputation. In Falkenberg v Nationwide News Pty Ltd, a married couple in the Sydney suburb of Leichhardt complained about a ‘Far Side’ cartoon published in The Daily Telegraph Mirror, which included their actual home telephone number as the relevant, fictitious one to contact Satan. In Bishop v State of New South Wales, a schoolteacher complained about …
‘The Gentlest Of Predations’: Photography And Privacy Law, C. Ludlow
‘The Gentlest Of Predations’: Photography And Privacy Law, C. Ludlow
Law Text Culture
In December 2004, Peter James Mackenzie, a labourer from the beachside suburb of Coogee in Sydney, pleaded guilty before a magistrate to a charge of offensive behaviour for photographing women who were bathing topless at the beach without their knowledge or consent. He forfeited his expensive Nokia mobile camera phone and the images he had taken. ‘[The women] were quite horrified by what you were doing … Women are not objects of decoration for men’s gratification,’ said Magistrate Lee Gilmour as she fined him $500 (The Sydney Morning Herald 2 December 2004).
The Perpetrator In Focus: Turn Of The Century Holocaust Remembrance In The Specialist, F. Guerin
The Perpetrator In Focus: Turn Of The Century Holocaust Remembrance In The Specialist, F. Guerin
Law Text Culture
In his controversial 1998 film, The Specialist, Israeli director Eyal Sivan casts the Holocaust in a new light when he represents it through the eyes of the Nazi perpetrator. Sivan and his scriptwriter, human rights activist Rony Brauman, re-assemble and manipulate footage originally filmed by Leo Hurwitz for Capital Cities Broadcasting of Adolf Eichmann’s trial by an Israeli court in Jerusalem in 1961. Specifically, Sivan recycles the video footage of the trial into a 16mm film that critiques, not the heinous nature of Eichmann’s crimes, nor the depravity of the man who committed them, but the system of regulation that …
Distracting The Masses: Art, Local Government And Freedom Of Political Speech In Australia, K. Gelber
Distracting The Masses: Art, Local Government And Freedom Of Political Speech In Australia, K. Gelber
Law Text Culture
Visual images in the form of politically explicit street art can evoke passionate responses. In the arena of political culture these responses can be educative or vilificatory, constructive or abusive, and form part of public debate. Where these images are censored, restricted or banned through legal intervention by government, however, the debate takes on a different tone because it interacts with free speech principles. What are the limitations of valid government intervention against controversial political art? Is it justifiable, and if so when and under what circumstances, for government to censor political views with which it disagrees or which it …
Wearcomp 4, S. Mann
The Image And The Terrorist, O. Watts
The Image And The Terrorist, O. Watts
Law Text Culture
A number of artists in America have been arrested and detained in the last few years on the suspicion of terrorism. Using Clinton Boisvert as a primary example this paper provides metapictures to explain the difficult job of defining and imaging ‘the terrorist’. Certain issues arise at the nexus of criminology and visual culture, in relation to terrorism. First, the visual representation of terrorism and the terrorist has become an important addition and a ‘dangerous supplement’, in Derridean terms, to anti-terrorist legislation. Visual culture has become a primary site in which legislative terms have been confronted both as concept and …
The Haunting Of Gay Subjectivity: The Cases Of Oscar Wilde And John Marsden, D. Dalton
The Haunting Of Gay Subjectivity: The Cases Of Oscar Wilde And John Marsden, D. Dalton
Law Text Culture
I offer the juxtaposition of the two images opposite [see article] as a visual index of the arguments presented in this article. For I seek to address how notions of gay criminality are intricately connected in a nexus of history, cultural memory and the practices of naming and figuring, through which the past prevails to haunt the present. Consider figure 1. On the right hand side is an image of Oscar Wilde as he was sketched in court during his first (defamation) trial in London in 1895. On the left hand side is an image of a man …
Checkpoint (Blacktown) By Zanny Begg, J. Lai
Checkpoint (Blacktown) By Zanny Begg, J. Lai
Law Text Culture
Artist: Joy Lai
Artwork: Checkpoint (Blacktown) by Zanny Begg for the [out of gallery] project, 2004