Tag: media

  • Media World vs. Real World: Globalisation and Our Unequal Relationship With Media

    The innovation of technology has been an inseparable part of globalisation. From the invention of printing press to the born of Internet, there is always a strong bond between technology and globalisation especially with the communication and media technology. Flew and Cunningham (2001, p. 77) state, “Developments in communication media are important in all the… →

  • From Illegal Graffiti to Legal Mural: a Bias in Today’s Cultural Jamming

    Nowadays, the concept of cultural jamming is often criticised because it has been losing its original spirit: “to challenge the status quo and to foster the ideals of the Englightment” (Cammaerts, 2007, p. 88). According to Cammaerts (ibid), today’s cultural jamming is nothing more than just an entertainment as well as political or marketing strategy.… →

  • On Western Media Coverage: How Media Orientalise Terrorism

    The orientalism concept is often criticized for its stigmatised stereotype and its hegemonic colonial history. As Said believes, “the relationship between orient and occident is a relationship of power, of domination, of varying degree of a complex hegemony” (1978, p. 5). Unfortunately, instead of helping people to gain “richer truths about the world around us”… →

  • Mendamba Televisi Lokal yang Melokal

    Keberadaan insitusi media tak lain adalah untuk menjawab kebutuhan informasi yang dimiliki masyarakat. Mereka hadir untuk membuat masyarakat tahu apa yang tadinya tidak mereka tahu dan mengurangi tingkat ketidakpastian atas suatu kejadian atau peristiwa. Tak terkecuali dalam situasi bencana. →

  • Paper Pertama di Australia

    The Future of Journalism: Living in “Yellow”, Expecting the Glow By Diyah Hayu Rahmitasari Journalism has transformed into many forms and styles in recent times (Zelizer, 2009, p.1). The transformation is not only about the format of the journalism, from verbal to digital, but also the contents in it. It depends on the structure of… →

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