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Posts tagged with "New Media"
Press Muse – Calling STOMP’s bluff
Apr. 4 | By Spiegel Once upon a time, when laypersons chance upon information they deem of relevance to a wider audience, they’d be inclined to pay deference to the professionals – they couldn’t disseminate the information themselves anyway. So they...
PM Lee living in a fool’s paradise
Mar. 29 | “Can you blame the pent-up netizens for opening up an alternative media channel to disseminate the truth about the iniquities of the PAP government? The Prime Minister will be living in a fool’s paradise if he thinks that their online crticisms...
Engaging Singaporeans in new media: focus on the issues
Mar. 28 | By Leong Sze Hian This article has been updated with an edited version. During a recent REACH forum, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that feedback obtained online needs to be assessed “critically and carefully”, and that it is easy to...
Youthquake 6: Alternative media can’t replace traditional media
Jan. 18 | Nur Izyan / Photos courtesy of WP Youth Wing Last Saturday, Workers’ Party Youth Wing (WPYW) organised a public forum titled “The influence of online media on Singaporean youths”. It is the 6th Youthquake Forum, part of a forum series founded...
Malaysiakini turns 10, so where’s Singaporekini?
Nov. 28 | As Malaysiakini, an independent Malaysian news website, celebrates its 10th anniversary, Cherian George gives his take on why a “Singaporekini” has not emerged here in Singapore. Cherian George SINGAPOREANS may fancy ourselves the most envied nation...
Big brother is watching New Media
Nov. 13 | Donaldson Tan Last week, Alicia Wong reported on TODAY that from as early as June 2009, government ministries and agencies have been seeking social media intelligence services for monitoring online sentiments related to their scope of work. According...
PAP on New Media coverage of General Election 2010
Nov. 6 | Secretary-General Lee Hsien Loong said, “Using all the media people are comfortable and familiar with, then we can be present to contest with them [Loyal Opposition]. And if we see things that are not correct on websites which are respectable and...
George Yeo on New Media
Sep. 17 | George Yeo spoke at the Singapore Blog Awards 2009 yesterday. “You can be sure, looking ahead, that those who succeed as bloggers or as websites or as web aggregators, they succeed over time because they have established a reputation of trust.”
Blogging – you’ve got the power!
May. 5 | NOW is your chance to be a part of a new media revolution sweeping Singapore and the world over. To be held on 30 May, the Singapore Internet Research Centre (in collaboration with TOC) will be organising a full-day workshop in which accomplished bloggers,...
The mediation in news media
Apr. 8 | Betsy Tan “The media has its own ideology and we tend to accept it in an uncritical fashion because we are so exposed to it. The more we are exposed to it, the more invisible it becomes.” In our media-saturated society, we accept that television shows...
New faces watching new media
Mar. 30 | PN Balji Who says Cabinet changes here don’t spring surprises? Dig a little deep into the reshuffle announced by the Prime Minister on Thursday and you will find at least one. Of all the ministries, only one has an Acting Minister. And for support,...
Was Minister Lui Tuck Yew confused by AIMs’ recommendations?
Mar. 25 | Andrew Loh Senior Minister of State (Information, Communication and the Arts) Lui Tuck Yew defended the Government’s amendments to the Films Act stoutly. He even described the changes as “significant liberalisation and change, and it will widen...
Political blogs more sophisticated but obstacles remain
Mar. 5 | Report by Koh Yina and Teng Jing Wei / Pictures and slideshow by Boris Chan “People with opinions have always expressed their thoughts, but now, with the new media, they can bring it to a bigger audience,” said Ambassador Ong Keng Yong, chair...
Wild wild web?
Feb. 23 | Well, there is a place called the Wild West and there are other places which are not so wild. And the new media – some of it are Wild West and anything goes and people can say anything they want, and tomorrow take a completely contrary view. And...
Discrediting the “new media”
Feb. 11 | Melvin Tan Rear-Admiral (NS) Lui Tuck Yew, who is Senior Minister of State for Information, Communications and the Arts, recently expressed disappointment with netizens for what he felt were “unkind comments” over the mishap involving PAP...
2008: The year of the blogger-activist
Dec. 30 | Benjamin Cheah / Senior Writer On January 2nd, artist and blogger Seelan Palay held a hunger strike outside the Malaysian High Commission. He intended to protest against the detention of five leaders of the Hindu Rights Action Force under Malaysia’s...
Mainstream media going downstream: PN Balji
Dec. 22 | Andrew Loh Former Chief Executive Officer and Editor-in-Chief of the Today newspaper, said that he sometimes “shuddered looking at some of the stories that are displayed” in the Singapore papers. Comparing the local papers to the Financial Times,...
An extreme suggestion for an extreme age
Nov. 12 | Arixion / Youth Writer It has been two months since the Advisory Council for the Impact of New Media on Society (AIMS) released its report. Its report was standard government fare except for a major point that has got everyone talking: the need for the...
Liberalising the Films Act? Teach Media Literacy too
Sep. 4 | Terence Lee / Youth Editor Can a film – or a blog post – spark a revolution? That must be the question on the minds of some PAP politicians, even as Aims released its recommendations for the Government on how to manage the new media’s...
AIMs’ press conference
Aug. 30 | The Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society (AIMs) held a press conference to release its recommendations to the Government on August 29. (Read TOC’s report here.) Below are two videos of the press conference. Part One: Part Two:
The Online Media: Untangling Singapore’s web of politics
Aug. 21 | The following is an article which TOC’s Deputy Editor Gerald Giam wrote for Opinion Asia. We would like to thank Opinion Asia for letting us re-publish it in full here. The article has also been published in the Straits Times, under the title “New...
New Media problematic
Aug. 21 | The more problematic part is how do we, in the process of opening up, come up with some ways of reducing, minimising, if not cut it off completely, this abuse of this technology. Cheong Yip Seng Chairman, Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on...
Navigating Singapore’s new media environment
Jul. 18 | Below is Gerald Giam’s speech at the Reel Revolution learning talk, organised by The Substation, on 12 July 2008. Gerald Giam | Deputy Editor Singapore was ranked 153rd out of 195 countries by Freedom House, in its 2008 report on media freedom. A...
