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Digital Asia Rising

Digital Asia Rising. Ying Chan Journalism and Media Studies Center The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China . 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

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Digital Asia Rising

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  1. Digital Asia Rising Ying Chan Journalism and Media Studies Center The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China

  2. 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

  3. Internet Penetration in Asia (Dec 2005)Source: Internetworldstats.com

  4. Top 20 Countries in Broadband PenetrationSource: Telecompaper

  5. 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)

  6. Alternative Media Forms Challenging traditional Media • Ohmynews • Malaysiakini • Philippines Center for Investigative Journalism • EastSouthWestNorth • Blogs, portals

  7. The Paradigm Change ` • Mainstream media vs. alternative media • MSM vs new media Or • Corporate media vs independent media • Party/state media vs independent media

  8. 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!

  9. 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)

  10. 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

  11. 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.

  12. 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

  13. THANK YOU Ying Chan The University of Hong Kong Shantou University, PRC yychan@hku.hk

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