From Home-Studios to Mobile Phones: Recent Trends in Popular Music Recording and Sharing in Papua New Guinea

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-150
Author(s):  
Oli Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Music Recording

scholarly journals Mobile phones and media use in Madang Province of Papua New Guinea

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Watson
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Mobile Telecommunication ◽  
Media Access ◽  
Telecommunication Sector ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
Early Adoption ◽  
Culture Model

A mobile phone service was not available to the majority of the population in Papua New Guinea (PNG) until mid-2007. Since that time, commercial competition has been introduced into the mobile telecommunication sector and coverage has spread across many parts of the country. While the focus of this article is on mobile phones, the research has also explored media access and media usage more generally. Analysis in this article adopts the ‘circuit of culture’ model developed by du Gay et al. (1997). The article is based on data from a survey conducted in 2009 in eight rural villages in Madang Province. The research occurred during the primary stages of mobile phone adoption in these places, providing a rare opportunity to gauge early adoption behaviour and attitudes.

scholarly journals Becoming unsustainable? Recent trends in the formal sector of insect trading in Papua New Guinea

Oryx ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 386-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob D.S. Small
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Formal Sector ◽  
Conservation Incentives ◽  
Local Livelihoods ◽  
International Demand ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The Government ◽  
Sustainable Conservation

AbstractRising international demand from collectors for the insects of Papua New Guinea, in particular the endemic birdwing butterflies (Ornithoptera spp.), has been met since 1978 by the government sponsored Insect Farming and Trading Agency (IFTA). Institutions such as IFTA have the potential to satisfy markets through legitimate trading, boost local livelihoods and thus provide conservation incentives, and satisfy CITES criteria. Until the onset in Papua New Guinea of large-scale logging and mining in the 1990s, and a crisis of governance, IFTA was widely regarded as a conservation and development success. However, analysis of its trading records for 1995-2002 suggests that this agency is now struggling to sustain payments to village-based insect ranchers and collectors. This failure, combined with the limited number of ranchers and collectors and their restricted geographical spread, casts some doubt on this model of sustainable conservation.

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