scholarly journals From Pacific Scoop to Asia Pacific Report: A case study in an independent campus-industry media partnership

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Civic Journalism ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Affairs

Media convergence within the news and current affairs landscape over the past two decades has opened opportunities for competing newspapers, television stations and online publishers to form alliances to approach digital and editorial challenges with innovative strategies. The partnerships have often enabled journalists to embrace multimedia platforms with flexibility and initiative. This has fostered a trend in ‘gatewatching’ and a citizen responsive and involved grassroots media rather than legacy mainstream gatekeeping, top-down models. Such committed media attempts in search of investigative journalism accompanied by ‘public’ and ‘civic’ journalism engagement initiatives have also been emulated by some journalism schools in the Asia-Pacific region. This has paralleled the evolution of journalism as a research methodology with academic application over the past decade. Selecting two New Zealand-based complementary and pioneering Pacific digital news and analysis publications, Pacific Scoop (founded 2009) and Asia-Pacific Report (2016), produced by a journalism school programme in partnership with established independent media as a combined case study, this article will demonstrate how academia-based gatewatching media can effectively challenge mainstream gatekeeping media. Pacific Scoop was established by an Auckland university in partnership with New Zealand’s largest independent publisher, Scoop Media Limited, and launched at the Māori Expo in 2009. The article also explores the transition of Pacific Scoop into Asia-Pacific Report, launched in partnership with an innovative web-based partner, Evening Report. The study analyses the strategic and innovation efforts in the context of continuing disruptions to New Zealand’s legacy media practices related to the Asia-Pacific region.

scholarly journals REVIEW: An emotional, eternal life struggle for peace, justice

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-218
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Depth Of Field ◽  
The Political ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Investigative Journalism

Few books have been published in Oceania offering the political and social resonance achieved by some photojournalists in the Asia-Pacific region and further afield internationally. Books come to mind such as Depth of Field, a powerful collection of photographs of poverty and repression in the Philippines; The Brotherhood, a revealing portrayal of a corrupt police precinct in Manila by Alex Baluyut for the Philippines Centre for Investigative Journalism.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Cruz Berrocal ◽  
Cheng-Hwa Tsang
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
The Future

We briefly review the topics that our case studies in Vanuatu, Marianas, the Philippines, Taiwan, China, Vietnam, and Japan highlight, and note the value of these studies in framing a comparative approach to colonialism in the Asia-Pacific region. Each case study highlights different aspects in the colonial relationship. The chapters have been grouped following a geographical criterion, and the imbalance reflects the fact that some areas have been better studied than others (e.g. for Marianas), albeit with different perspectives. We express our hope that the book has gathered some previously little systematic or accessible evidence, offered comprehensive histories of some of the areas, and raised questions for the future.

scholarly journals Growing Pains: The Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network at Seven Years

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Savitri Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Internal Governance ◽  
Growing Pains

The mission of the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN), as stated in its Constitution, is ‘to advance the rights of refugees and other people in need of protection in the Asia Pacific region’. This article describes and analyses APRRN’s internal governance and resourcing and the manner in which it is going about achieving its mission. It argues that APRRN’s organisational strength is inadequate to support all that it is trying to do. The article concludes by considering what APRRN could do to improve the likelihood of achieving success in the pursuit of its mission and reflecting on the lessons of the APRRN case study for wider civil society.

The Internet and indigenous language use: A Filipino case study

1999 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-60
Author(s):  
Maya F. Watters ◽  
Paul A. Watters
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Indigenous Language ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Culturally Appropriate ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Cultural Pressures

ABSTRACTThe Internet is a potentially non-coercive technology which has the capacity to facilitate the development and dissemination of locally-relevant and culturally-appropriate discourse. Many countries, especially those in Europe, have moved to utilise the Internet as a resource for expressing and revitalising their autochthonous languages, in response to cultural pressures from globalisation. However, there has been little evaluation of whether the Internet might give rise to a renaissance of indigenous language use in the postcolonial Asia-Pacific region. In this paper, we examine the case of the Philippines, which this year celebrates a centenary of independence from Spain, to determine whether introduction of the Internet has in fact enhanced the provision of indigenous language information services. We sampled 1% of the Internet sites listed in a popular search engine, in each second-level domain (educational, commercial, government and non-government organisations), and found very little evidence of indigenous language use in any of the sites in these categories. This suggests that the Internet has not yet realised its potential as a medium for indigenous language use in the Philippines, but that greater awareness of its capabilities in this arena might change the situation in the future.

Intergroup Communication: Asia/Australasia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuang Liu
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Asian Immigrants ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Intergroup Communication ◽  
The Past ◽  
Asian Immigration ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
History Of

Located in the Asia Pacific region, Asia and Australasia have established a long and close relationship over the past centuries. Asian immigrants play a key role in the development and maintenance of this relationship between the two continents. As Australia not only occupies 86% of the Australasia region but also has a long history of receiving Asian immigrants, dating back to the 18th century, research on intergroup communication between Asian immigrants and host nationals tends to be concentrated in Australia. Under the early White Australia Policy, restrictions on Asian immigrants were imposed to protect the White Australia. This reflected the values and attitudes at the time when many Australians considered Asia as a threat and defined themselves as separate from it. Since the removal of this policy in 1973, particularly in the past four decades, there has been a substantial boom of Asian immigration to Australia. They transformed Australia’s economy, society, culture, and more importantly, Australians’ attitudes toward Asia and Asians. Asian immigrants are therefore central to the study of intergroup communication in Australasia.

Asia Pacific and South Asia

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Teitt
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Case Study Analysis

There is a tendency to view R2P diffusion in the Asia Pacific region as a function of ‘norm containment’, which explains endorsement of R2P as a result of the weakening, deconstruction, or dilution of R2P to render it more compatible with the region’s state-centred security norms and practices. This chapter demonstrates, however, that R2P has diffused in the Asia Pacific region through a dynamic process of negotiation and compromise between international R2P norm advocates and Asia Pacific actors, which has witnessed concession and accommodation on both sides. Through case study analysis of how the governments of Japan and India have engaged with R2P, the chapter argues that the Asia Pacific’s socialization to R2P is most aptly characterized as a balance of R2P norm containment and localization, witnessed in Asia Pacific actors shaping the contours of the R2P norm and accommodating its prescriptions through gradual, incremental normative and institutional change.

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