amic_blue RGB.jpg Monthly Newsletter: November 2011


AMIC Supports Media Leaders’ Forum

The Media Leaders’ Forum will discuss the role and responsibility of media companies in affecting positive social action and behaviour change on the critical issues relating to climate change.

UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP), Dr Noeleen Heyzer, will deliver a keynote address, followed by a panel discussion of senior media, advertising and development community representatives who will discuss the use of media relationships and tools for advocacy, awareness and behaviour change in accomplishing companies’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) objectives.

The Media Leaders’ Forum will explore how partnerships with international development and donor agencies and private-sector companies with strong CSR initiatives can affect public engagement on issues relating to climate change. It will encourage invited media heads to support broad and extended campaigns to raise awareness and achieve behaviour change on climate change by providing advertising inventory, entertaining program content and editorial space to explain the issues.

Check out this link for more details

3rd ASEAN Media Forum

Under the theme of “Developing Social Media Collaborations” a two-day ASEAN Media Forum & Workshop will be held on 16th & 17th of December at the National Library and Singapore Council for Women’s Association (SCWO) respectively.

This year, AMF will focus on social media in ASEAN and ways of strengthening cooperation between them for greater community building. The workshop on 17th will focus on understanding network effects and leveraging online communities to create an ASEAN senior citizens’ network.

A special panel discussion on the “Impact of Anti-Terror Laws on the Media in Southeast Asia,” followed by a book launch titled: Balancing Civil Rights and National Security – Anti-terror laws in Europe and Asia and their impact on Media Freedom and Civil Liberty will take place on 17th morning at SCWO.

To see the latest programme as of 15th November 2011, click here.

For more information, contact Ms Tharuka Prematillake at + 65 6792 7570

AMIC Represented At ABU General Assembly in New Delhi

AMIC's Secretary General Dr Sundeep Muppidi and Head of Research and Capacity Building Dr Kalinga Seneviratne attended the ABU General Assembly from 5th to 8th November in New Delhi. Both were speakers at the associated FES-ABU seminar on Public Service Broadcasting, Community Radio, Internet and Good Governance with Dr Muppidi speaking on "New Media and Good Governance: The Case of Public Media 3.0" while Dr Seneviratne spoke on "How community radio and PSB would promote good governance". AMIC Board Member, Associate Professor Martin Hadlow, was Chair of the overall FES-ABU seminar on "Media and Good Governance".

Keynote Speech at Mumbai University Conference

AMIC's Head of Research and Capacity Building Dr Kalinga Seneviratne gave a Keynote Talk at a conference organised by The University of Mumbai in Mumbai on 'Media, Literature and Language' on 12th November 2011. He spoke on "Media Theory: Practice and Reality" focusing on the need to develop communication theories and methodologies on researching about media development in Asia without blindly trying to adopt Euro-centric theories to study the practice and realities of the Asian media.
 

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