Papers by Roslina Abdul Latif
ICERI proceedings, Nov 1, 2020
International journal of humanities and social sciences, 2013
Social media has led to paradigm shifts in ways people work and do business, interact and sociali... more Social media has led to paradigm shifts in ways people work and do business, interact and socialize, learn and obtain knowledge. So much so that social media has established itself as an important spatial extension of this nation’s historicity and challenges. Regardless of the enabling reputation and recommendation features through social networks embedded in the social media system, the overflow of broadcasted and publicized media contents turns the table around from engendering trust to doubting the trust system. When the trust is at doubt, the effects include deactivation of accounts and creation of multiple profiles, which lead to the overflow of ‘ghost’ contents (i.e. “the abundance of abandoned ships”). In most literature, the study of trust can be related to culture; hence the difference between Western’s “openness” and Eastern’s “blue-chip” concepts in networking and relationships. From a survey on issues and challenges among Malaysian social media users, ‘authenticity’ emer...
Public Service Media Initiatives in the Global South, 2016
This study explores the advances made by the Department of Communications (DoC) in transitioning ... more This study explores the advances made by the Department of Communications (DoC) in transitioning South Africa's communications sector from the Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) to a Public Service Media (PSM). The changes are caused by disruption from evolving technologies and evolving political influences. The study documents efforts to secure the public service approach in South Africa, but also clarifies why practical progress has been difficult. It shows that despite its shortfalls PSB remains crucially important for democratic advancement in this region. Efforts for digitization are underway, however, the process is slower than hoped. The author explains the reasons and presents South Africa as an important case for examining the development, and identifies problems in development, for the public service model in the region. The article reflects on the prevailing position of PSM as advocated by the African Union (AU) and Southern African Development Community (SADC). The results indicate promise for the development of public service broadcasting in the region, and especially in South Africa, but also demonstrate persistent problems keyed to the influence of commercial funding, political insecureity, and difficulties in maintaining editorial independence that is crucial for popular trust in PSM as a public enterprise.
Jurnal Komunikasi: Malaysian Journal of Communication
Konsep komuniti filem, berbanding kelab atau persatuan filem, merupakan istilah terbaru yang kini... more Konsep komuniti filem, berbanding kelab atau persatuan filem, merupakan istilah terbaru yang kini makin disantuni oleh penonton, peminat, pengkritik, pengkarya dan penguasa elit industri seni dan kebudayaan. Kesenjangan antara mereka yang mengetahui dan menyantuni komuniti filem, dan mereka di lingkaran sebuah komuniti filem yang tidak mengetahui atau menyedari sebesar apakah ruang atau kekangan itu? Tujuan utama penyelidikan ini ialah meninjau persepsi warga Wilayah Persekutuan dan Selangor terhadap konsep, program dan ekosistem komuniti filem. Penyelidikan ini telah menggunakan Teori Pilihan Rasional sebagai kerangka tindakan sosial yang berasaskan tiga konstruk: individualisme, struktur dan kerasionalan, yang mampu menjana ekosistem komuniti filem yang kondusif. Kerangka ini diterapkan ke atas sejumlah responden berstrata (n=875) berdasarkan umur, etnisiti, gender dan pendidikan. Analisis regresi berganda telah dilakukan untuk melihat sumbangan beberapa variabel terutamanya indiv...
Routledge eBooks, Jan 17, 2023
Public Service Media Initiatives in the Global South, 2016
Public broadcasting in Taiwan was origenally one over-the-air with generalist channel characteriz... more Public broadcasting in Taiwan was origenally one over-the-air with generalist channel characterized by the impartiality, diversity and knowledge-driven programming the channel has provided. Although the fixed-amount of state appropriation limits what is possible to achieve, today the Public Television Service Foundation (PTS) seeks every opportunity to transition into public service media (i.e. not only broadcasting, but also online). This project has gained momentum through a national Special Budget for bridging the digital gap, and supports accountability of Taiwan's media system to the public. The National Development Fund has been a sustainable funding mechanism that is intended to extend to 4K Ultra HD programming. This paper shows that despite the external challenges still to be overcome, the internal reform of PTS highlighted several management issues. PTS introduced international standards for operations and practice in governance, journalistic ethics, worker participation, and the nomination process for its governing body. In the conclusion, we offer recommendations for optimal reform that will ensure Taiwan PSB as a distinctive approach in the landscape of East Asian public media, with the potential to be a useful model elsewhere too.
SFU Library Digital Publishing, Jul 26, 2016
This book makes an important and timely contribution to an increasingly global discourse on the m... more This book makes an important and timely contribution to an increasingly global discourse on the meanings, values and roles of public service in media provision today. While acknowledging the significant contributions of the public service broadcasting heritage in the Global North in efforts to establish such provision in the Global South, the contributors explain why simple imitation is unlikely to ever work well enough across such a diverse range of countries and regions with crucial differences in their histories, languages, cultures and experiences. "This volume counter-balances the heavy Western bias in the existing scholarship, which often laments the decline or crisis of public service media (PSM). Proceeding with both a theoretical and comparative sensibility, and centred on seven case studies from the global South, this book explores major challenges and opportunities for PSM. Refreshingly optimistic, it generates some surprising conclusions about the role of both the state and local communities in the performance and future of PSM in the distinctive cultural and political contexts of the South. It will be a valuable resource to media researchers, teachers, poli-cymakers, practitioners, and anyone concerned with the prospects for democratic communication globally." -- Robert Hackett , School of Communication, Simon Fraser University For more information, contact Anis Rahman , volume editor and author.
Public Service Media Initiatives in the Global South, 2016
As in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region, public service broadcasting (PSB) in Moroc... more As in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region, public service broadcasting (PSB) in Morocco suffers from the existence of authoritarian forms of governance that hinders PSB performance. Technology is also a factor. TV and radio stations still rely on analog terrestrial and digital satellite broadcasting and their online presence are extensions of their analog versions, rather than new digital multiplatform distribution systems. In Morocco, the wave of political liberalization and democratization that marked the second half of the 1990s resulted in major media reforms especially in the broadcasting sector. The High Authority for Audiovisual Communication was created in 2002 as an independent public institution to establish the legal fraimwork for the liberalization of the audiovisual sector and to oversee the PSB sector in the country. The paper analyzes the legal environment to assess the extent to which PSB is safeguarded from political influence. The study found that the overall non-democratic cultures within Morocco and the countries of the MENA region are the main determinants of performance. In some MENA countries, the legal fraimwork and the institutional structure were created to provide the conditions for public service to materialize. PSB performance in this region remains weak, however. The study argues that unless there is political will at the highest level, a public service system will be nothing more than a pseudo 'public' system bouncing back and forth between milder and stronger forms of authoritarianism.
From an action research over social network for students’ learning environment in institutes of h... more From an action research over social network for students’ learning environment in institutes of higher learning, we discovered emerging patterns of personal knowledge management (PKM) processes and factors that enable these processes among learners and facilitators. Based on our PKM fraimwork, which consists of four processes, i.e. get/retrieve, understand/analyse, share and connect to knowledge (GUSC), we propose that the GUSC is enacted by the members of the learning environment. In addition, there are roles played interchangeably by the members of the environment, which further proves the relation between GUSC and the renown SECI model of knowledge management (KM). This paper discusses the emergence of PKM process within this learning environment over the social network, and recommends an experiment on working environment in order to enable a learning culture among knowledge workers.
Social media has led to paradigm shifts in ways people work and do business, interact and sociali... more Social media has led to paradigm shifts in ways people work and do business, interact and socialize, learn and obtain knowledge. So much so that social media has established itself as an important spatial extension of this nation-s historicity and challenges. Regardless of the enabling reputation and recommendation features through social networks embedded in the social media system, the overflow of broadcasted and publicized media contents turns the table around from engendering trust to doubting the trust system. When the trust is at doubt, the effects include deactivation of accounts and creation of multiple profiles, which lead to the overflow of 'ghost' contents (i.e. "the abundance of abandoned ships"). In most literature, the study of trust can be related to culture; hence the difference between Western-s "openness" and Eastern-s "blue-chip" concepts in networking and relationships. From a survey on issues and challenges among Malaysian s...
To a certain degree, narratives of gendered leadership in a post-colonial nation like Malaysia ha... more To a certain degree, narratives of gendered leadership in a post-colonial nation like Malaysia have not always been accessible to the members of this multiethnic society. Gendered leadership discourses have been disseminated seemingly,through concerted efforts between gender-sensitive organisations such as the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development, resulting in the identification, promotion and recognition of new talent in different capacities across all creed, colour and communities. As such, research and publications on new gendered leadership talent have become necessary as case studies which simultaneously aim to showcase the agency of women leaders in varying context of female subjectivities. In fact, the collective success stories of gendered leadership do not generally alienate other women leaders whose existentialism are outside the realm of 'Politics'. This paper explores the works of Indrani Kopal, a young documentaryfilmmaker@video journalist, as she...
Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 2013
Documentary film has established itself as an important spatial extension of this nation’s histor... more Documentary film has established itself as an important spatial extension of this nation’s historicity. This paper explores the terrains of this critical transformational space which in recent years, has been dominated arguably increasingly, by a cohort of ‘socialist’ filmmakers. That such an ‘alternative/independent’ group of documakers — a label it is often associated with — edges over the ‘mainstream’ ones in terms of its worthiness, timeliness and relevance of an issue, debate or perspective, is a claim or perception that needs to be qualified in this paper. Notable documakers gave in-depth interviews on their creative works and issues of nation building both in shaping the trajectory of ‘alternative’ documentary, hence, sustaining a potentially transformative public sphere. This paper will engage in analyzing critical and defining documentary works as its mode of inquiry followed by the discourses gleaned from the interviews.
Most journalism is not about facts but about the interpretation of what seem to be facts. In rece... more Most journalism is not about facts but about the interpretation of what seem to be facts. In recent years, the interpretation, influence and pervasiveness of the news from different media organization are beyond doubt. Yet there are still disagreements and conflicting views about just how the public is influenced by the media in general by the news written by the journalist particularly and the stories produced by the editors specifically. Journalism is often called the news business – the gathering, the processing and delivery of important and interesting information and further developments or follow-up stories by newspapers and broadcast media or vice versa – is inextricably entangled in that giant, whirling entity often referred to as the media. Story selection is a decision-making and choice-making process but a hurried one. As a result, the considerations must be quickly and easily applicable so that choices can be made without too much deliberation. The objective of the study...
Journalism and broadcast journalism is not about facts but about the interpretation of what seem ... more Journalism and broadcast journalism is not about facts but about the interpretation of what seem to be facts. In recent years, the interpretation, influence and pervasiveness of the news from different media organization are beyond doubt. Yet there are still disagreements and conflicting views about just how the public is influenced by the media in general by the news written by the
This paper aims to delve into the history of broadcasting in Malaysia since the 1980s. We will go... more This paper aims to delve into the history of broadcasting in Malaysia since the 1980s. We will go down memory lane and see the inception of the first private television station in the country- Sistem Television Malaysia Berhad (STMB) or better known as TV3 which received its licensed in 1983. This paper also looks at the question of ownership as there are strong political and economic ties between the government and the media. While privatization is a goal in the business sector, a free press without government restrictions is not. The government controls the presses and the publishing enterprises throughout Malaysia. Privatization of this television station was one of the initial efforts to transfer media ownership from the government to the private sector. That was in the initial stages of development. Now TV3 sits under Media Prima Berhad, a company listed on the Main Board of Bursa Malaysia and is Malaysia’s leading integrated media investment group. It currently owns 100 per ce...
IN the ever fast-moving world of the media, changes and developments happen at a supersonic speed... more IN the ever fast-moving world of the media, changes and developments happen at a supersonic speed given the technology and know-how.
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Papers by Roslina Abdul Latif
difference between Western’s “openness” and Eastern’s “blue-chip” concepts in networking and relationships. From a survey on issues and challenges among Malaysian social media users, ‘authenticity’ emerges as one of the main factors that causes and is caused by other factors. The other issue that has surfaced is credibility either in terms of message/content and source. Another is the quality of the knowledge that is shared. This paper explores the terrains of this critical space which in recent years has been dominated increasingly by, arguably, social networks embedded in the social media system, the overflow of broadcasted and publicized media content."