scholarly journals 'I want to buy my own block of land': Representation of urban settlement communities in Papua New Guinea

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1and2) ◽  
pp. 232-250
Author(s):  
Wilma Molus ◽  
Verena Thomas ◽  
Jackie Kauli ◽  
Laurie Buys
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
Urban Settlement ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
The Media ◽  
Second World

Urban settlements are home to around half the urban population of Papua New Guinea. Since the end of the Second World War, PNG towns and cities have experienced significant growth of urban settlements. Urban dwellings were established on customary and untransformed state lands. With limited support for services from government, informal settlements in the urban landscape have often been perceived from the perspective of their deficiencies. However, residents of urban settlement communities play an important role in urban economies. The purpose of this article is to critically review perceptions of settlements and issues affecting settlement communities in PNG, both in the mainstream media and from within settlement communities. The authors first present a media content analysis of reporting on settlement communities on PNG’s main online media sites. Second, they examine urban market vendors’ personal experiences of the challenges and solutions of living in Kamkumung Settlement in Lae. Drawing on storytelling and photovoice workshops with market vendors at Awagasi market, they argue for the need for media actively to include the voices of settlement residents. The article suggests that, by better understanding the context and personal experience of residents, journalists and the media could make a stronger contribution to sustainable development and urban planning in PNG.

scholarly journals Strengthening the voices of human rights defenders in the media

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-104
Author(s):  
Verena Thomas ◽  
Jackie Kauli
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Legislative Changes

Civil society and human rights defenders in Papua New Guinea have played an important role in bringing about legislative changes with regard to domestic and sorcery accusation related violence in recent years. Their insights in understanding how to address complex issues at the community level when accusations occur have also proven crucial to keeping people safe and providing processes to hold perpetrators accountable. However, the mainstream media has rarely reported on their stories and included their voices in the reporting of sorcery accusation related violence. They have focused on exposing the problem, often by showcasing the horrific nature of some of the crimes related to accusations, instead of further investigating possible solutions. In this paper we explore our work with human rights defenders to capture their experiences around sorcery accusations and violence and provide ways to bring their stories into the mainstream media. In particular, we explore questions around the ethics of representation when it comes to reporting human rights abuses and violence and suggest alternative ways of reporting.

Rotavirus from Children of an Urban Settlement of Papua New Guinea

1990 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. B. Bukenya ◽  
R. Kaiser ◽  
N. Nneka
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Urban Settlement

scholarly journals Six Oceania microstates: The genesis of media accountability

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shailendra Singh
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
South Pacific Island ◽  
The Media ◽  
Pacific Island Countries ◽  
Similar Body

Media accountability systems (M*A*S) have been slow to take root in Oceania. Apart from Papua New Guinea, Fiji is the trend-setter in the region. Following the establishment of the Fiji Media Council in the mid-1990s, several other South Pacific island countries were keen to the follow the lead. Tonga now has a similar body with a code of ethics and which includes public members empowered to receive and adjudicate on complaints against the media. In Samoa, a study has been carried out in order to establish a media council-type body. The Solomons Islands Media Council (SIMC) is an industry organisation that does not yet have a complaints procedure. It is considering including this mechanism in line with the Papua New Guinea Media Council with which it shares a website and has a cooperative agreement. This article examines the debate in six South Pacific island countries that have adopted, or are in the process of adopting, self-regulatory M*A*S mechanisms following government pressure. They are the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu. The article also argues that there are other M*A*S that regional media can adopt besides media councils and this action would make it harder for governments to intervene and introduce regulation.

scholarly journals REVIEW: Ethics, integrity -but what about truth?

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-185
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
The Media

Review of A fragile freedom: Challenges facing media in Papua New Guinea, edited by Joe Weber. Madang, PNG: Divine World University Press. The booklet has two sections, one briefly devoted to the Divine Word University Media Freedom Day on 30 April 1999, and the main one which collects papers and speeches at the Media Ethics workshop organised by the PNG Media Council and sponsored by the AusAid Pacific Media Initiative project. 

scholarly journals Good news media book in regional bad news year

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-212
Author(s):  
Patrick Craddock
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
News Media ◽  
National Development ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Good News ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
The Media

Media, Information and Development in Papua New Guinea is one of the most interesting books I have on Pacific media. It is a collection of different writers, some of whom are current or former journalists. Several of the authors have direct media links as staff working with the Divine Word University in Madang, a private Christian institution. For the uninitiated, the opening chapter gives an outline of the media landscape in PNG. Other chapters explore media ownership, journalism education and the role of media national development. 

scholarly journals Opportunities for development journalism in Papua New Guinea

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vipul Khosla ◽  
Lyndal Rowlands
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Capital ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Foreign Corporations ◽  
Papua New Guinean ◽  
Training Opportunities

The Social Journalism Awards (SJA) is a journalism exchange programme providing Papua New Guinean journalists with opportunities to report on development issues. This article draws on information collected from SJA participants, and analysis of the media content they produced, to gather insights into development journalism in Papua New Guinea. The study found that Papua New Guinean journalists are interested in reporting on development issues but they lack appropriate opportunities to do so. The main issues facing Papua New Guinean journalists include few opportunities to report on issues outside the national capital; few professional development or training opportunities; few opportunities to report on development issues, particularly those affecting the rural poor; conflicts of interest for media owners including the government and foreign corporations with mining interests; and low pay within the industry. The study showed that when given appropriate opportunities, PNG journalists can contribute to development and democracy in meaningful ways. The article concludes that it is important for media indices to go beyond procedural freedoms and to measure substantive freedoms, or opportunities, available to journalists.

scholarly journals A common conception of justice underlies Pacific churches’ message on climate change

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-101
Author(s):  
Philip Cass
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Media

This article presents an overview of the role mainstream  churches can play in mitigating the climate change crisis in the Pacific and their role in facilitating climate induced migration. It builds on earlier work by the author (Cass, 2018; 2020) with a focus on Fiji, Tonga and Papua New Guinea. Both Catholic and Protestant churches share a concern for the future of the planet based on the principles of economic, social and climate justice, which complement moral and ecumenical imperatives. The article examines what message the churches convey through the media and the theology that underlines them.

scholarly journals Outwitting repression of the media in PNG

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-106
Author(s):  
Sean Dorney
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media

'Papua New Guinea could possbily teach the rest of the world a thing or two about preserving press freedom. What has worked in the media's favour in PNG is the country's vibrant—you could say rampant— democracy.'

scholarly journals Pacific media councils and cultural values: Safety valve or entrenched hegemony?

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Codes Of Practice ◽  
The Media ◽  
Cultural Pressures

Two countries in the South Pacific, Fiji and Papua New Guinea, have adopted contrasting media council models to self-regulate the media amid growing political and cultural pressures on the news industry. Projected as promoting media standards  and professionalism and a model for the region, the realities have raised questions about whether such bodies are self-regulatory mechanisims genuinely working in the public interst in the Pacific or defending entrenched media and power relationships, some foreign, from pressure by island governments, There are also questions over whether codes of ethics promoted by the council are effective as self-regulatory tools for the media. Exploring case studies such as media coverage of the controversial John Scott double murder case in Fiji, the Speight attempted coup and political crisis in Papua New Guinea, this article exammines thses dilemmas and also whether codes of practice reflect regional 'Pacific way' cutlural values, or are in fact adopted as part of globalisation. 

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