State and media in Thailand - during political transition
on press freedom in Thailand are a new development of this long lasting antogonism. The current situation in Thailand emphasizes concerns for press freedom, state censorship, self-censorship, media ownerships and ethics. Despites of high degree of freedom
, a new situation enhancing the role of the army could damage the reliability of Thai media. Among the authors are Kavi Chongkittavorn, Weera Prateepchaikul, Thongbai Thongpao, Arjarn Phansasiri Kularb. - (GL)
Proceedings of the Symposium organized on may 2007 in Bangkok. Media developed in Thailand tends to spread western concepts such as democracy and freedom. However, authorities have regularly attempted to grip on independent media. Nowadays debates
Activisme ; Collaboration ; Connaissance ; Engagement civique ; Epistémologie ; Géographie politique ; Géovisualisation ; Géoweb ; Information ; Interaction sociale ; Média ; Organisation non gouvernementale
Drawing upon evidence from an inductive analysis of five online initiatives that engage new spatial media in activism and civic engagement, we explore new dimensions of the knowledge politics advanced through new spatial media and the mechanisms
through which they emerge. The significance of these practices is in their role in advancing different epistemological strategies for establishing the legitimacy and authority of knowledge claims. They conclude that these new knowledge politics entail
Audiovisual ; Cinema ; Commodification ; Cultural studies ; Globalization ; Information ; Mass media ; Memory ; Music
In a media saturated world of globalization, an interesting paradox exists : geographic literacy appears to be on the decline while geographic information is on the rise. This paradox is explored to argue that increased mediated information does
not produce more meaning, but rather leads to a catastrophe of meaning and the medium. With more mediated information there is less meaningful information. We need to address geographic media literacy as a primary mode through which to address geographic
21 st Century Foxed : global media broadcasting and the reconfiguration of Mocambicanidade
The paper explores the emergence of new global media corporations and examines some of the implications for the making of African cultural identities, particularly the construction of Mocambicanidade or Mozambicanness. The relevance of the concepts
of media imperialism, decultuation, and deterritorialisation are examined in the quest for a national identity. - (AJC)
The mediation and remediation of disaster : hurricanes Katrina and Felix in/and the newmedia environment
Bilwi ; Catastrophe ; Communication ; Couverture médiatique ; Etats-Unis ; Idéologie ; Internet ; Louisiana ; Mobilisation ; New Orleans ; Nicaragua ; Ouragan ; Population locale ; Télévision
Catastrophe ; Communication ; Hurricane ; Ideology ; Internet ; Local population ; Louisiana ; Mobilisation ; New Orleans ; Nicaragua ; Television ; United States of America
This article examines the mediation and remediation of disaster through the examples of hurricanes Katrina and Felix in/and the newmedia environment. It suggests that disasters must be understood as ongoing and open-ended events embedded within
historical, social, cultural, economic and political processes and systems. It concludes that media, policymaking and emergency management practices will be best equipped to engage effectively, and in democratically responsive ways, with disasters
[b2] School of English and Media Studies, Massey Univ., Wellington, Nouvelle-Zelande
Fragile sector, robust practice : project ecologies in newmedia. Theme issue
Cette section thématique comprend quatre articles. 1. Distribution de l'intelligence et organisation de la diversité dans les projets relatifs aux nouveaux médias (M. Girard, D. Stark). 2. Comment élaborer l'innovation dans les entreprises start-up
des nouveaux médias (W. Heydebrand, A. Mirón). 3. Du changement dans les nouveaux médias : de la capacité créatrice à l'expertise-conseil, de l'hétérarchie à la hiérarchie (S. Lash, A. Wittel). 4. Le travail de projet dans son contexte : le changement
de régulation et la nouvelle géographie des médias (S. Christopherson).
Maps with the news : the development of American journalistic cartography.
Cartography at the service of print and television media. Historical development of engraving technology, the role of wire services, and news syndicates as they relate to maps and their presentation. Map use in newspapers and magazines
and in electronic media increased greatly, thanks largely to advances in telecommunications and graphics printing have made maps more timely and less costly. - (DWG)
Newmedia and urban motilities : a territoriologic point of view
Communication ; Espace urbain ; Fracture numérique ; Inégalité sociale ; Mobilité ; Médias ; Technologie ; Territorialisation
L’A. étudie la double nature socio-technique et bio-politique des médias dans l’environnement urbain. Il affirme que les nouveaux médias sont le prolongement du processus d’urbanisation du territoire et qu’ils contribuent à renforcer les inégalités
Newmedia, geopolitics, and terror : discursive analysis of Bush and Bin Laden's rhetoric
En analysant la rhétorique de Ben Laden et des Etats-Unis et leurs techniques de manipulation des médias, l'A. montre que les deux camps ont pu propager leur idéologie afin de promouvoir leurs objectifs. Les discours extrémistes se sont recoupés
Où ? La visualisation des géo-informations dans les médias
Cartography ; Geographic information ; Graphics ; Mass media ; Press ; Thematic map
The article deals with the media cartography, the information graphics and the thematic maps. It gives an overview of visualization of geographic information from a journalistic viewpoint, because the localization of events and its visualization
are central to the reporting of news. This paper discusses new developments in these maps as well as thematic maps and interactive graphics in journalism. - (IfL)
The inscription of difference: news coverage of the conflicts in Rwanda and Bosnia
Despite the comparable message potential inherent in these civil wars, the US newsmedia have elected to cast their coverage of the two wars in two different frameworks of understanding. The AA. reveal how the press distorts Rwanda coverage to fit
a frame. This inscription of difference implicates the newsmedia as a central player in the social construction, categorization and defamation of peoples and places in the emerging post-Cold-War geopolitical (dis)order.
Criminality ; Discourse ; Mass media ; Perception ; Social class ; Social exclusion ; Traveller ; United Kingdom
)constructed in the media during the Martin affair showed evidence of both older, stereotypical representations of Travellers and newer ways of locating them in relation to contemporary societal anxieties about dangerous youth, the underclass, and social
The paper provides an analysis of media discourse surrounding the arrest, trial, and conviction of Norfolk farmer Tony Martin for the murder of 16-year old Traveller from Newark, Nottinghamshire. It argues that discourses about Travellers (re
Asians ; Auckland ; Education ; Export ; New Zealand ; Students
Débats dans les médias autour des étudiants internationaux à Auckland avec un accent particulier sur les représentations du groupe le plus important de ces étudiants, ceux provenant des pays de la région de l'Asie du Nord-Est.
Lost in conceptualization : reading the “new Cold War” with critical geopolitics
Allemagne ; Concept ; Guerre froide ; Géopolitique critique ; Medias ; Politique énergétique ; Russie ; Récit
l'attitude du gouvernement et des médias vis-à-vis de ce concept et de son inhérente logique géopolitique. Cette présence met aussi en lumière l'ambiguïté de l'aspect populaire en géopolitique populaire. Il est tout aussi important de préciser le sens des
concepts de géopolitique populaire ou de géopolitique banale et des relations entre les mass médias et la géopolitique.
Discours ; Géographie appliquée ; Information géographique ; Internet ; Média spatial ; Nouveauté ; Néo-géographie ; Système d'information géographique ; Technologie
In this article, the A. foregrounds the neo in neo, geography and trace the ways in which the ascribed newness of emergent Web-based spatial media is leveraged in discursive-material practices that enact certain kinds of changes in the world
. Drawing on illustrative empirical examples, she demonstrates the ways in which newness (1) acts as a discursive device that depoliticizes spatial media so as to lay the groundwork for their social naturalization; (2) is made recourse to as a means by which
Abortion ; Communication ; Democracy ; Emotion ; Internet ; Newmedia ; Policy ; Responsibility ; United Kingdom
Avortement ; Communication ; Démocratie ; Emotion ; Internet ; Nouveaux médias ; Politique ; Responsabilité ; Royaume-Uni
On étudie les débats autour de l'avortement dans les médias britanniques et les réponses publiques à de telles discussions. Il s'agit à l'origine d'un article écrit par un éditeur politique et on s'attache observer de manière critique les réactions
qu'il a provoquées dans ces médias. On évalue le potentiel démocratique de ces types de médias, développant les notions de la sphère publique en analysant dans quelle mesure des forums spécifiques sur Internet jouent un rôle dans la facilitation des
émotions lors de discussions politiques. On se demande comment ces types de nouveaux médias permettent une délibération démocratique. Cela suppose d'évaluer la communication médiatique par ordinateur comme une nouvelle façon de faire de la politique.