Media and Development
in Asia
Regional Perspectives

This book brings together some of the most outstanding and novel papers on media and development presented at the 2004 AMIC Annual Conferences. It provides a wealth of fresh case studies as well as breaking new ground in highlighting emerging frontiers of media development discourse in Asia, comparing regional development along multiple dimensions and frameworks, and pointing the direction towards further media initiatives at a national level.

The papers selected are grouped into three key themes: media and development; new narratives and political discourse; and media impacts and capacity building. The contributors to this book have highlighted not just an interesting range of media and development issues in Asia, but have also introduced a good variety of media research methods.

These include quantitative assessments of media impacts in society, comparative and longitudinal frameworks for evaluating regional ICT competitiveness, structural analyses of political and activist communication systems, in-depth case studies of individual organisations, and broad-based surveys of stakeholders in ICT4D.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Indrajit Banerjee and Madanmohan Rao, p 1

Part I Media and Development

Chapter 2 Toward Good e-Governance for the Future in Southeast Asia
Kenneth E. Corey and Mark I. Wilson, p 15

Chapter 3 ICT for Human Development: Indicator or Instigator?
Hao Xiaoming and Zhao Jinqiu, p 40

Chapter 4 Competitiveness of ASEAN-5 in the Information Economy: An Empirical Analysis
Mahendhiran Nair, Ron Davison and Mudiarasan Kuppusamy, p 61

Chapter 5 Addressing the Information Needs of a Developing Nation: A Case Study from Papua New Guinea
Dick Rooney and Evangelia Papoutsaki, p 99

Part II New Narratives and Political Discourse

Chapter 6 Participatory Journalism and Asia: From Web Logs to Wikipedia
Andrew Lih, p 119

Chapter 7 Between Freedom and Censorship: Asian Political Parties in Cyberspace
James Gomez, p 139

Chapter 8 The Impact of Counterpublics in Asian Civil Society: Filipino Smart Mobs and Estrada’s Ouster
Marie A. Mater, p 161

Chapter 9 Branded Political Communication: Euro-Asian Campaigns for Global Citizenship
Sigrid Baringhorst, p 173

Chapter 10 Political Communication Research in China: A Paradigm Shift from Propaganda to Public Opinion?
Zhou He, p 190

Chapter 11 Making Development Communication “Hip” and “Cool”: Rebranding the Development Message for the MTV Generation
Kalinga Seneviratne, p 204

Part III Media Impactsand Capacity Building

Chapter 12 Technology Enabled Learning Systems for Developing Countries: Points for Communication Specialists to Ponder
Usha Vyasulu Reddi, p 221

Chapter 13 ICT-Readiness among Small and Medium Enterprises in the Rural Philippines: The Case of Oriental Mindoro
Violeda A. Umali and Antonio P. Pagaduan II, p 233

Chapter 14 Environmental Concern and the Malaysian Press: A Case-Study of the Reporting of Energy Issues
Mohammed Zin Nordin, Shanthi Balraj and Ng Ju Li, p 256

Chapter 15 Shifting Frames from Consumers to Critical Viewers of Television: A Case Study on Youth and Television Literacy in Penang, Malaysia
Ambigapathy Pandian and Shanthi Balraj, p 284

Chapter 16 Remote Indigenous Media Audiences: Radio, Gender and Development in Southern India
Yesudhasan Thomas Jayaprakash and Brian Shoesmith, p 298

Chapter 17 Hong Kong Media Ownership Trends: A Case Study of Conglomeration, Expansion and the Rise of the Market Principle
Doreen Weisenhaus, p 323