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Digital Asia Rising
Ying ChanJournalism and Media Studies Center
The University of Hong KongHong Kong, China
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Digital Asia Rising
• World’s largest telecom and ICT market
• World’s fastest growing telecom market
• ICT industries major players in global markets – 3G, mobile applications
• Recognized models of independent media
• Proliferation of individual and alternative forms of media production
• Emerging civil society in cyberspace
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Internet Penetration in Asia (Dec 2005)Source: Internetworldstats.com
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Top 20 Countries in Broadband PenetrationSource: Telecompaper
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Asia/Pacific Semiannual Fixed-Line Telecom Services MARCH 2003
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International Corporations Retreating from Journalism
• Asiaweek (2001, Time Warner)
• Far Eastern Economic Review (2004, DJ)
• STAR TV (2005, News Corp)
• Business Week International Edition (2005)
• Asian Wall Street Journal (2005, DJ)
• Time magazine (2005, Time Warner)
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Alternative Media Forms Challenging traditional Media
• Ohmynews
• Malaysiakini
• Philippines Center for Investigative Journalism
• EastSouthWestNorth
• Blogs, portals
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The Paradigm Change
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• Mainstream media vs. alternative media
• MSM vs new media
Or
• Corporate media vs independent media
• Party/state media vs independent media
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Challenges Ahead
• Bridging the digital divide inside Asia and within countries; lowering costs, increasing access
• Combating censorship and state control
• Capacity building, creating sustainability for independent media
• Fostering the independent/citizen media model – SPREAD THE GOSPEL!
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Digital News Environments
Embryonic – East Timor, Afghanistan
Emerging – Nepal, Bangladesh
Negotiating - China
Intermediate – India, Philippines
Mature – Australia, New Zealand
Advanced – Japan, South Korea
(Madanmohan Rao)
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Digital Access Index
• Infrastructure: fixed tel lines; mobile/100 households
• Affordability: cost of Internet access
• Knowledge: literacy, school enrollment
• Quality: bits per capita
• Usage: Internet users/100 people
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Creating the Fifth Estate
• “The answer (to corporate media) is simple. We have to create a new estate, a Fifth Estate, that will let us put a civic force against this new coalition of (media) rulers.”
John Pilger, British Journalist and author of Tell Me No Lies, Investigative Journalism
that Changed the World.
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Forward to the Fifth Estate
• “ Creating international association of journalists, academics, newspaper readers, radio listeners and television viewers that operates as a ‘counterweight’ to the great corporations monitoring, analyzing and denouncing them.” John Pilger