Television Democratization and the Political Awareness of Voters in Indonesia

This study explores how the democratization of media in Indonesia enhanced the role of television stations in raising voters’ political awareness about the 2014 legislative election. For this qualitative study, we interviewed two media experts and the chief editors of six television stations. We find that there are three general factors negatively affect TV’s role as a free public sphere, namely, production constraints, owners` political interests, and commercial aspects of the television industry. Concentration of ownership and commercialization have increased television’s orientation toward profit, minimizing its educative role, and minimizing its neutrality. However, television still increased voters’ awareness regarding the election technicalities but failed to reflect the visions of the competing candidates. The establishment of innovative community television could be an alternative for commercial TV in Indonesia. However, the performance of community TVs in Indonesia is hindered by the restricted access to frequency spectrum and low financial capabilities.

Culture Under Threat

Hyperlocal community television is currently under threat and its content documenting local memories and histories is underused and hardly accessible. Newly generated hyperlocal content runs the risk of not being archived, curated and preserved. Can new technologies that encourage hyperlocal media contribute to its demise? This article discusses the history of hyperlocal community television in Finland, considers its current challenges and draws awareness to the need of securing this local heritage for the future. The article debates how the future fate of this form of hyperlocal television is dependent on material resources, such as manpower, access to storage and preservation infrastructures as well as funding.

Television and National Identity: An Ethnography of Television Audience in the Border of Indonesia-Malaysia

Television has a strategic position in constructing national identity. As part of the everyday life of the community, television provides a community-driven medium to construct its identity. In relation to the existence of mass media in the community and the issue of forming a national identity, there are unique problems that exist in the Sebatik Island of the Indonesian and Malaysian frontiers. These Indonesian people have no access to the broadcasting media, especially television, from Indonesia. This situation has persisted for several years, so the citizens of Sebatik Island use television broadcasts from Malaysia as their primary source of media communication. This study aims to examine how the people of Sebatik Island construct their national identity through the Malaysian television programs they watch daily. The methodology used in this study is ethnography with data collection techniques through observation and interviews of eight informants in September 2017. The result shows that the “mixed national identity” of Sebatik society is influenced by various factors and one of them is Malaysian television. Malaysian television programs also play a role as a socialization agent, among with other agents such as the presence of the community, the country, the organization, the culture, and the ideology.

Community media, their communities and conflict: A mapping analysis of Israeli community broadcasting groups

Community media organisations are famously difficult to define, as this media field is highly elusive and diverse, even if there is a certain degree of consensus about a series of basic characteristics. One key defining component is the objective to serve its community by allowing its members to participate in self-representational processes. Yet this component raises questions about what community means, and how the community that is being served relates to other parts of society. This article studies a particular social reality Israel where community television is the dominant model, community television production groups are separated from the actual distribution of the produced content and different configurations of us and them characterise political reality. Following the methodological procedures outlined in Voniati et al. (2018), a mapping of 83 Israeli community broadcasting groups was organised, allowing us to flesh out the different ways in which these community broadcasting groups deal with their community/ies and the other. The analysis shows that many of these Israeli community broadcasting groups have fairly closed, singular-community articulations of their communities. They rarely engage in interactions with other communities (limiting internal diversity) and their external diversity is even more restricted, with only one ArabIsraeli community broadcasting group able to be identified. The analysis did, however, identify a dozen groups with more open approaches towards their outer worlds, and thus the potential to assume a more conflict-transformatory role.

The Communities of Localism

This chapter focuses on elements of local broadcasting that is often glossed over: community television and community media. The chapter begins by defining community media and then proceeds to the case studies: public access television (PEG) regulation in the United States, the redrafting of Canadian community television regulations in 2002 and 2010, and the lack of community television and importance of community radio and hyperlocal media in the UK. This chapter argues that community media need to be fully integrated into a holistic conceptualization of local media among policymakers, regulators, and local media stakeholders. A second goal is to demonstrate that it is within conversations about, and discourses of, community media where larger issues of the local and its relationship to local media become most pronounced.

PLANEJAMENTO ESTRATÉGICO E GESTÃO SOCIAL: o caso da TV OVO

O presente trabalho busca apresentar como ocorre o planejamento estratégico na TV OVO, sendo esta uma tv comunitária surgida no ano de 1996 cujo principal propósito é mostrar a realidade das comunidades dos jovens da periferia de Santa Maria através de produções audiovisuais. Para tanto, o objetivo do estudo é analisar como é feito o planejamento estratégico da organização. Para tanto foi realizada uma entrevista com dois membros da coordenação da TV, bem como análises documentais do material disponível e disponibilizado por estes. Quanto ao planejamento estratégico da TV OVO, pode-se perceber que, constitui-se como uma associação sem fins lucrativos, onde a grande maioria dos envolvidos nos trabalhos realizados o faz através do voluntariado, esta funciona basicamente como uma "empresa", e a organização a administração da TV a torna um espaço informal com claros traços de instituição formal, o que tira o peso de metas e agrega no capital humano, uma vez que fica clara a importância de cada membro que participa da coordenação. This job aims to present the strategic planning used by TV OVO, which is a community television emerged in 1996 whose main purpose is to show the reality of communities of young people on the outskirts of Santa Maria by audiovisual productions that portray with other eyes, of those who live there. Therefore, the main objective of the study was around analyze how the organization's strategic planning is done. To meet the goals set, an interview with two members of the TV coordination has been established, as well as documentary analysis of the available material and made available by them. As for the strategic planning of the TV OVO, one can see that this basically works as a "company", and the organization's management TV makes it an informal space with clear traces of formal institution, which takes the weight goals and aggregates in human capital, since it is clear the importance of each member participating in the coordination.