Sep 27, 2016 | AMIC Communication Awards
AMIC has reset the deadline for submission of nominees to its 2016 Asian Communication Award to 31 October 2016.
According to AMIC Secretary General Ramon R. Tuazon, the rescheduling will ensure that more nominees can vie for this prestigious award. The 2016 winners will be announced early next year.
Since 2006, 16 individuals have been recognized by AMIC for their outstanding achievements in various media and communication fields and categories.
The AMIC Asia Communication Award 2016 will be given in the following categories:
Research—pioneering contributions to the body of knowledge on media and communication research, such as the launching and completion of major research projects or the development of enduring theoretical approaches in the discipline;
Education—legacy in nurturing successive generations of media, communication, or journalism students and scholars;
Institution building—establishment of key communication and media programs, research centres or academic publications;
Excellence in journalism—sustained involvement in public service and observance of the highest journalistic principles; and
Outstanding practitioners from a single country within Asia-Pacific, a region within Asia, or the whole of Asia-Pacific can be nominated.
While the nominee need not be from Asia-Pacific, preference is accorded to regional actors.
Past awardees include eminent communicators and journalists Dr. John Lent, 2006; Prof. Eddie C. Y. Kuo, 2007; Dr. Nora Quebral and Dr. Florangel Rosario- Braid, 2008; Dr. Binod Agrawal and Dr. K. E. Eapen, 2009; Dr. Hidetoshi Kato, 2010; Dr. Georgette Wang and Dr. Crispin Maslog, 2011; Tan Sri Dato’ L. Krishnan, 2012; Dr. Alwi Dahlan and Mr. Jakob Oetama, 2013; Mr. Juan L. Mercado, 2014; and Dr. Alan Hancock and Dr. David Robie, 2015.
The award will be presented during the 2017 AMIC international conference in Manila, Philippines.
Nomination can be made by accomplishing the official nomination form (available at www.amic.asia), and submitting it with a nomination letter to:
Ramon R. Tuazon
Secretary General
Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC)
E-mail: r.tuazon@amic.asia or rrtuazon722@yahoo.com
Sep 26, 2016 | News
Dr. David Robie, AMIC’s Asian Communication Awardee 2015, called for greater press freedom in the Asia Pacific in two talks he made while on a personal and business visit in the Philippines.
AMIC coordinated part of Robie’s tour.
As part of his Philippine tour, Robie spoke with the members of the AMIC Board of Management and urged greater networking in research, academic exchange, and joint projects among media organization in the Asia Pacific region, especially among higher education institutions.
These were among the recommendations raised during the World Journalism Educators Congress (WJEC) held in Auckland, New Zealand in July. Robie is a professor of media and communication at the Auckland University of Technology which hosted the WJEC. He is head editor of AUT’s School of Communication’s Pacific Media Centre.
In his talk at the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication, Robie underscored the need to support journalists on account of strict rules governing the media in some areas of the region. He cited the case of the Balibo 5, a group of young journalists who disappeared in West Papua in the 1970’s after attempting to conduct an investigative video report in this embattled area.
At the University of Santo Tomas, Robie spoke at the forum Asia-Pacific Journalism for Filipinos Lessons by Seasoned Journalists and Journalism Educators where he emphasized truth as the core of journalism.
“Journalism is really about truth, any experience of truth, and establishing that truth,” Robie said, while urging an audience full of students to adopt a digital strategy to promote human rights for journalists.
He cited the Pacific Media Center that runs the news website Asia Pacific Report as an example of independent campus based media.
AMIC coordinated Robie’s visits to the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, two media advocacyorganizations based in the Philippines.
Aug 27, 2016 | Asian Journal of Communication, Media Asia, Publications
Four 2016 issues of Asian Journal of Communication (AJC) and one Media Asia issue are already out.
AJC Vol. 26, No. 4 (August 2016) contains articles probing communication styles in different areas of the world, such as comparing the presidential rhetoric of South Korea President Lee and US President Barack Obama.
Theoretical articles are presented, such as probing moderating role of cultural orientation in explaining temporal orientation of self-referencing, and examining a new contextual perspective for crisis communication theory comparing the Eastern and Western traditions.
Communication issues that have arisen in specific countries are also probed, such as an examination of Chinese media’s implicit and explicit agendas; changes of cultural representation in Indonesia’s children’s television from 1980s-2000s; and examining the impact of message framing and temporal distance related to the communication to young Chinese of the human papilloma virus.
The AJC August 2016 issue also contains a book review of Making news in India: Star news and Star Ananda, written by SomnathBatabyal and published by Routledge.
Meanwhile, Media Asia Vol. 43, No. 1discusses the national anniversaries of Philippines and Indonesia as “narratives of remembrance”, with an interview of Dr. Crispin C. Maslog, AMIC Board of Directors chairperson, remembering the People Power Revolution. It contains two articles on what happened in Indonesia in 1965 when the Sukarno government was overthrown.
Articles also include a discussion of Japan press clubs, a Chinese dating show, television in India, reporting on the Malaysian Airline MH370 tragedy, border radio in Thailand and Malaysia, Indian Media Organization, and social media influencers in Singapore.
Aug 23, 2016 | News
Be among Asia’s communication icons.
Nominations are now being accepted for the AMIC Asia Communication Award 2016. Through this award, the Asian Media Information and Communication Center (AMIC) recognizes outstanding achievements in the following communication fields and categories: research, education, institution building, and journalism.
Past awardees include Dr. John Lent, Prof. Eddie C. Y. Kuo, Dr. Nora Quebral, Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid, Dr. BinodAgrawa, Dr. K. E. Eapen, Dr. Hidetoshi Kato, Dr. Georgette Wang, Dr. Crispin Maslog, Tan Sri Dato’ L. Krishnan, Dr. AlwiDahlan, Mr. JakobOetama, Alan Hancock, and David Robie.
Nominations will be accepted from AMIC members. The closing date is on 30 September 2016. Please accomplish the nomination form, which can be downloaded from www.amic.asia. Send the form, together with a nomination letter, to the following:
Mr. Ramon R. Tuazon
Secretary-General
Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC)
E-mail: r.tuazon@amic.asia and rrtuazon722@yahoo.com
Aug 22, 2016 | News
Asian Media and Information Centre (AMIC) secretary general Ramon R. Tuazon urged communication schools in ASEAN countries to actively pursue regional integration in communication education.
Mr. Tuazon made the call in his keynote address during the Regional Forum on Communication for Smart ASEAN via Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on August 10. The forum was organized by the International Master’s Program of Communication Arts for ASEAN of Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University (STOU) in Bangkok, Thailand.
According to Tuazon, while programs in engineering, architecture, and medical sciences have achieved significant progress in pursuing ASEAN program integration, little progress has been achieved in communication and journalism education. The envisioned integration is part of borderless education.
Tuazon described borderless education as a system of transfer of credits, joint degrees granted by educational institutions and non-traditional partners such as business and industry, recognition of degrees, and comparability of qualifications.
To pursue borderless education and a higher education area in ASEAN, Tuazon reminded ASEAN educators of the need to adopt national qualifications and quality assurance systems toward an ASEAN Reference Qualifications and Assurance Frameworks.
The Philippines has already drafted its qualifications framework for communication which can be a model for other ASEAN countries.
To jumpstart the pursuit of borderless communication and journalism education in ASEAN, AMIC plan to undertake studies on competencies compatibility and comparability, craft a draft ASEAN Reference Qualifications Framework, and conduct a feasibility study for an ASEAN and Asia-Pacific accreditation standards system for communication and journalism schools.
AMIC also plans to do an ASEAN communication and journalism curriculum review which focuses on compatibility and comparability and develop learning resources such as an AMIC textbook for communication and journalism courses common among communication and journalism schools in the Asia-Pacific region.
During the two-day conference, STOU launched its Thailand MOOCs. Dr. Kamolrat Intaratat, program chair of the Master of Communication Arts for ASEAN Program, was the conference lead convenor.
