THE 2nd SOUTHEAST ASIAN
MEDIA STUDIES CONFERENCE
9-11 JUNE, 2022 | Virtual Conference
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN MEDIA STUDIES CONFERENCE '2021 (SEAMSC'2021)
Prof Elizabeth L. Enriquez
University of the Philippines
Title: Histories and Historiographies of Mass Media in Southeast Asia: Frameworks and Issues
Dr ELIZABETH L. ENRIQUEZ (PhD, University of the Philippines Diliman) is a Professor at the College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines Diliman, where she teaches media history; media theory; political economy of media; media literacy; and media, gender, and sexuality.
She is the author of the book Appropriation of Colonial Broadcasting: A History of Early Radio in the Philippines, 1922-1946 (UP Press 2008) and the monograph with video documentary Radyo: An Essay on Philippine Radio (CCP 2003), both pioneering and still the only extensive works on Philippine broadcast history, apart from the recently published CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art, 2nd Ed. (2017), in which she served as a writer and one of the two principal editors of the Broadcast Volume.
She was a Fulbright Scholar twice, in 2001-2002 to conduct dissertation research at the US Library of Congress and the US National Archives, and in 2011-2012 as a Senior Scholar at the University of Maryland. Her research on historical periods of Philippine broadcasting, media and gender, and media education has been published in several refereed journals and book anthologies.
Before teaching at the University of the Philippines, she worked in radio and television for almost 18 years, mostly as a broadcast journalist. In 2015, she returned to the air by hosting programs on UP’s official radio station DZUP. She also hosts shows and delivers video lectures on TVUP.
Prof Rolando B. Tolentino
University of the Philippines
Title: Pandemic Capitalism and Southeast Asia Cinemas and Media
Dr ROLAND B. TOLENTINO is currently a Professor at the University of the Philippines Film Institute in Diliman. He has been a fellow at the UP Institute of Creative Writing since 2000, and has also taught at the University of California Berkeley, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, and National University of Singapore as a Visiting Professor.
He completed his PhD in Film, Literature, and Culture at the University of Southern California on a Fulbright Grant in 1997, and since then has written extensively on Philippine cinema, literature, and popular culture producing more than 90 publications. Some of his works include “Like/Unlike: Kuwentong Facebook at Politika ng Agam-agam” (2014), “Almanak ng Isang Aktibista” (2011), and “Sakit ng Kalingkingan: 100 Dagli sa Edad ng Krisis” (2005).
He has received numerous prestigious awards both locally and internationally such as the UP Press Centennial Publication Award, National Book Award, Obermann Summer Research Fellowship, Manila Critics Circle Award, and the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature.
Dr Tolentino is a member of Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino and the Film Development Council of the Philippines. He previously served as the Dean of UP College of Mass Communication from 2009 to 2015.
Dr Masato Kajimoto
The University of Hong Kong
Title: Cultural Landscape of Fact-Checking Efforts and Initiatives in Asia: Issues and Concerns
Dr MASATO KAJIMOTO, PhD, specializes in news literacy education, fact-checking, and misinformation ecosystem research in Asia. In 2019 he founded a not-for-profit organization called ANNIE (Asian Network of News and Information Educators) to develop teaching and learning materials in news literacy specific to the media and political landscape and socio-cultural environment in the Asian region.
As part of the initiative, he is currently running the student-led fact-checking newsroom Annie Lab at HKU Journalism. The news website is a verified member of the Code of Principles by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter Institute.
Masato is also the chief producer of the online course on Coursera titled Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens which was launched in 2017. He served as the leading researcher and co-editor for the paper “Information Disorder in Asia and the Pacific: Overview of Misinformation Ecosystem in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam.”
His recent publication includes an entry on “News Literacy” in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication and the five-country research for UNESCO titled “MIL education in Asia: Exploration of policies and practices in Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand.”
Before beginning a career in teaching and research, he worked as an online reporter and “Specials” editor (web producer) for CNN.
Born and raised in Nagoya, Japan, Masato earned his bachelor’s degree in English and American literature at Chuo University in Tokyo. He holds a master’s degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia in the U.S. He obtained a PhD in Sociology from the University of Hong Kong.
PAPER PRESENTED IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN MEDIA STUDIES CONFERENCE '2021 (SEAMSC'2021)
Panel 1: Southeast Asian Media and Public Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic
"Rare diseases”, Sexual Culture and the Disabled Woman in Bollywood cinema - Priyam Sinha (National University of Singapore)
COVID-19 Infodemic: Fake News Analysis of Three Waves in Malaysia - Lim Shiang Shiang and Edmund Ngo Chun Hou (OUW KDU Penang, Malaysia)
Chiến Thắng COVID-19: Pandemic-as-War Metaphor in Vietnamese Media - Chari Hamratanaphon (University of California, Riverside)
Analysing Southeast Asian Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Mitsu Parikh and Harsh Mahaseth (World of Legal Research and O.P. Jindal Global University)
Social Media and Online Misinformation of COVID-19 Outbreak in Southeast Asian Countries: A Systematic Review of Response and Insights - Syamsul Zahri Subir (Tunku Abdul Rahman University College, Malaysia)
Panel 2: Current and Emerging Media Theories in and about Philippine Mass Media
Stories from the Margins: The Filmic Structure and Representations of Sectoral Narratives in Social Advocacy Cinema - Herwin B. Cabasal (Far Eastern University)
Building Southeast Asian Film Datasets: The Case of the Philippines - Gerald Pasua and Gracius Yee (Ateneo de Manila University)
(De)Humanizing Gaze: Two Frames of Looking at the Images of the Drug War in the Philippines - Doris Wilson (University of the Philippines Baguio)
Cordillera Studies in the Field of Communication: A Grounded Theory Approach - Paul Nicolas H. Soriano and Eithne Ciarina N. Santiago (University of the Philippines Baguio)
Toward a Theory of Film Islands - Patrick F. Campos (University of the Philippines Film Institute)
Panel 3: Discourses on Press Freedom, Media Ethics, and Disinformation in Southeast Asia
Defending Women Journalists in the Philippines from Threats and Intimidations - Abigail Gomez (Cavite State University)
Framing Analysis of ASEAN Online News Coverage of West Philippine Sea Dispute between China and the Philippines - Veejay Vargas Calutan (University of the Philippines Diliman)
Transforming Journalism in Vietnam: An exploration of two Swedish Media Aid projects - Andreas Mattsson (University of Helsinki)
Panel 4: Imagery and Music in Southeast Asia
Haunting struggles and hounding teeth: Colonial soldiers, colonial zombies and Indonesia’s war of independence in Taring - Arnoud Arps (University of Amsterdam)
Imagining a Nation: John Thomson’s Photographic Journeys through Siam, 1865-1866 - Alexander J. Klemm (King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang)
Picturing Illnesses and the Filipino Body: Reading Disease-related Photographs in American Colonial Philippines - Nikko Jay B. Ramos and John Adrianfer Atienza (CE-Logic, Inc. The Philippines and Marist School Marikina)
Media Disruption: A close study of the media practices of two experimental music collectives - Martin Lukanov (Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski")
Panel 5: Media Literacy, Pedagogy and Community-Building
Assessment of Verbal Communication Skills of Cavite State University Faculty Members - Leslie Anne N. Gatdula (Polytechnic University of the Philippines)
A Rhetorical Analysis of A Vegan Advocate's YouTube Vlogs - Jea Agnes T. Buera (University of the Philippines Los Baños)
Cyberpsychology on the Philippine Online Media and Understanding the Local Popular - Ariel U. Bosque (Rizal Technological University)
The Virtual Ili: Igorot Virtual Communities through Facebook Groups - Stephanie Luanne Lagasca (University of the Philippines Baguio)
Panel 6: Philippine Popular Culture
The Decline of the Philippine Comics Magazine Industry in the Nineties: Perspectives from the Illustrators, Writers, and Editors - Lou Brad N. De Nobili, Olivier B. Tayag, and Phillip Daniele D.C. Taguba (De La Salle University)
In the Claws of Tondo: The Convergence of Hero and Place as Depicted in selected Fernando Poe, Jr. Films - Janice D. Roman (University of Santo Tomas and C&E Publishing, Inc.)
Finding the Big Boss: An Ideological Analysis of the Representations of the Military in Descendants of the Sun: the
Philippine Adaptation and its Partnership with the Armed Forces of the Philippines - Kesia Olitoquit (University of the Philippines Diliman)
Love and Laughter: The ABS-CBN Film Archives in the context of Filipino romantic comedy conventions - Carlo Jake D. Martin (University of Santo Tomas)
Reel time and reality, lyrics and dissent: Urban realism, hip hop, and politics in Respeto (2017) - John Adrianfer Atienza (Marist School Marikina)
Panel 7: The Geopolitics of Media Infrastructure: from Old Colonialisms to New Capitalisms
War and Waste: The Media Ecology of Laos’ Battered Landscapes - Chen Ding-Liang (Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation)
Ghostly Logistics: Cinema of Finance from Belt & Road Initiative to ACFTA - Lawrence Zi-Qiao Yang (Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University)
The Politics of Nostalgia and the Marcos “Golden Age” in the Philippines - Fernan Talamayan (Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University)
The Transformation of Gig Economy through Online Apps in Indonesia: a Case Study on Go- Jek - Maria Auxiliadora (International Master’s Program in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, University System of Taiwan)
The Colonized Gaze Back: The Double Visions of Early Vietnamese Cinema during the French Occupation Period - Nguyen Thi Trang (Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University)
Panel 8: Indonesian Media Landscapes
Exploring the propagation of content promoting tolerance embedding the hashtag #meyakinimenghargai: A mixed-methods approach through the lens of a socio-technical perspective - Yohanes Thianika Budiarsa and Hyashinta Amadeus Onen Pratiwi (Universitas Katolik Soegijapranata Semarang)
Inclusion and Exclusion of "Beauty": The Case of Provisional Delegation System in Indonesian Beauty Pageant - Hikari Yoda (Kyoto University)
Facebook Post as a Site of Struggle: Indonesian Domestic Workers and their Social Media Interactions - Tri Murniati (Universitas Jenderal Soedirman)
Emergences of (Anti)Public Narratives of Alley Gating in Post-Authoritarian Jakarta - Genta Kuno (Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University)
From Live Performance to YouTube Platform: Revisiting the Solitary Journey of Ngesti Pandowo, Traditional Javanese Puppet Dance Group in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia - Henrikus Joko Yulianto and Beni Saptiyanto (Universitas Negeri Semarang)
Pre Recorded Panel 1: Southeast Asian Popular Culture
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM: Dance of the People: Festival Mediascapes & Embodied Cultures in Philippine Visayan Islands - M. Alinney Villacastin (The New School of Public Engagement, US)
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM: A History of Fanaticism of Queer Ships in Selected Anime and Manga Fandom Spaces in the Philippines, between 2010-2020 - Mitchelle Jesallyn Balladares, Angela Raine Delmoro, Vivienne Monta, and Hannah Pabalan (De La Salle University)
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM: The Representation of Javanese Women in the Parody of Javanese Joke Youtube Channel “Ucup Klaten” - Rosalia Prismarini, Nurdiarti (Mercu Buana University)
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM: To save from oblivion: The role of film and social media in preserving the achievements of Cambodia’s Golden Age music - Karolina Michalina Park (Goethe University Frankfurt)
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM: Korean Hallyu in Manipur: Modes of Transnational Media Consumption Omen Achom (The English and Foreign Languages University, India)
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM: Multiculturalism Effects on Malaysian Public Relations Practices Chuan Tek Pheung (Tunku Abdul Rahman University College, Malaysia)
Pre Recorded Panel 2: COVID-19 and Press Freedom in Southeast Asia
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM: Who is afraid of the online wor(l)d? : A historical case study to understand the new OTT censorship move in India Arnaldas C (The English and Foreign Languages University, India)
1:15 PM – 1:30 PM: The Construction and Legitimisation of Local Issues on Indonesia’s Wikipedia: A Comparison of English and Bahasa Indonesian COVID-19 Articles - Hyashinta Amadeus Onen Pratiwi and Yohanes Thianika Budiarsa (University of Melbourne)
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM: Emancipatory Media towards Alternative Regionalism: Broadcasting the Grassroots Experience of COVID-19 - Ryan Joseph Martinez and Jose Monfred Sy (University of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development Studies - Program on Alternative Development)
1:45 PM – 2:00 PM: Independent Media: Issue and Challenge - Levon Kwok (Independent Scholar, United Kingdom)
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM: Press Laws in Vietnam: Telling History from an Economic Approach Doan - Khuyen H.H., Nguyen, Huyen T.N. (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam)
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM: The state of data journalism in Vietnam: A content analysis of data-driven stories from major publications - Huynh, Tuan M, Nguyen, Huyen T. N. (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)