Perspectives
NEWSMAKERS: 'VJs Are One-Man-Band Fearless Reporters' |
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The Anders Østergaard-helmed film, which has won 40 awards in the international film circuit including the Berlin Film Festival 2009 and the Sundance Film Festival 2009, revolves around the video journalists’ cat-and-mouse game with the Burmese junta while covering the monk-led mass protests in September 2007. |
Aung Htun (not his real name) is one of the young video journalists featured in the award-winning feature documentary 'Burma VJ (Reporting from a Closed Country)'. End of the News Romantics |
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For those brought up in the pre-digital era it's easy to lament the switch from prized paper to touchscreen ubiquity. But, in the first of a series about innovation, Andrew Marr says the future will be truly liberating for those who want to keep up with events. |
Tough Questions for Nepal’s Community Radio |
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By Kishor Pradhan* KATHMANDU, Jun 21 - The issuance of more than 200 licences to operate community radio in Nepal in the past couple of years, and the fact that more than 150 of them are currently operational, is surely is a remarkable development. However, there is no denying the fact that community radio in Nepal faces inherent challenges.
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Seven-Ups: A Rough Guide to Engaging Social Media |
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By Nalaka Gunawardene* When Barack Obama was elected in November 2008, it was not only a case of democracy at work — but also a show of new media’s ability to harness people power. |
NEWSMAKERS: ‘Thai Media Are Insecure And Imbalanced’ |
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Now on its fifth domain name, Prachatai.info, the site reports on news and issues on Thailand, including the crisis triggered by the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship or the red shirts. Its seeking views from different sides of what is the most serious political crisis in this South-east Asian country in decades, has not always been received well, or understood. |
Chiranuch Premchaiporn, director of the Thai independent news website Prachatai (‘free people’) has become adept at playing 'hide-and-seek' with authorities that have been trying to censor the website. Now A Global Player, the South Must Develop its Media |
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By Mario Lubetkin (*) There is a clear explanation for this disparity. During the last three decades of constant economic and demographic growth of the emerging nations -China and India at the forefront- the developed countries have been mired in relative exhaustion and were the epicentre of the information technology bubble that burst in 2000 and the even more calamitous world depression, which began in 2008 and is not over yet. |
THAILAND: Digital Divide Surfaces in Polarised Politics |
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Analysis by Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, May 6 (IPS) - Nearly eight weeks after anti-government demonstrators occupied the streets of this modern metropolis, virtually crippling two iconic areas, the rage it has generated in the media has exposed another fault line cutting across this kingdom – a digital divide. |
Bloggers and Chinese Twitter, China’s New Media Wave |
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When China’s most popular blogger Han Han had his recent post about a spate of violent attacks in Chinese schools taken down, it wasn’t the first time that he had courted controversy and it is unlikely to be the last. |
INDIA: Cyber Security Needs to be Taken Seriously — Editorial |
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Cyber security should be on top of the government's list of priorities, declares a 'Times of India' editorial on Apr. 9. |
CHINA: A Chinese Writer's View of Google's Exit |
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"The pressure of livelihood is so great that putting food on the table trumps all ideals. Google may have overestimated the importance of freedom, truth, justice and righteousness in the minds of a large number of netizens. These values are not nearly as practical as picking up a 100-yuan bill on the road," states a translated text of Chinese Mainland writer and blogging icon Han Han in an 'Asia Sentinel' article by Alice Poon on Apr. 1. |
