GLOBAL MAKE-OVER
GLOBAL MAKE-OVER
BY DANILO A. ARAO
Thirteen scholars from the Philippines, Korea, Japan, Singapore and East Timor
analyze the effects of globalization on various aspects of media and culture in
Asia in a recently published book.
Titled Global Makeover: Media and Culture in Asia, the more than 200-page book
consists of 11 articles that provide an in-depth look at how media operate due
to various influences, as well as how culture gets shaped by media systems,
technological developments and other factors.
In the book’s introduction, it was stressed that while the studies “do not cover
the entire Asian experience with regard to globalization and other influences,
they nevertheless give interested readers the specific experience in selected
Asian countries like the Philippines, Korea and East Timor while providing a
general context of Asian media and culture.”
The book’s contributors are Caroline Hau (Regional Contexts of Media Cooperation
and Artistic Collaboration in East Asia); Seung Joon Jun and Ju-Yong Ha (Whose
Stories Do We Listen To? World-System and the Pattern of International News
Flow); Ju-Yong Ha and Joel David (A Yearning for Tenderness in Korean Cinema);
Ying Huang and Kwang Woo Noh (Cultural Proximity and Cultural Distance: The
Reception of Korean Films in China Through the Case of My Sassy Girl in the
Early 2000s); Doobo Shim and Joseph Sung-Yul Park (The `English Fever’ in
Korea); Patrick Campos (The New Fantasy-Adventure Film as Contemporary Epic,
2000-2007); Shirley Palileo-Evidente (The Alternative Metaphor in Metaphors:
Discursive `Readings’ on Language, Symbols and Enculturation in Philippine
Cinema and Other Media); Joel David (Orientalism and Classical Film Practice);
Randy Jay Solis (The Grassroots Approach to Communication: How Participatory is
Participatory Communication in the Philippines?) ; Fernando Austria, Jr.
(Cross-Cultural Experience and Media Use: OFWs in Korea and Their
Acculturalization); and Jacqueline Aquino Siapno (`Their History Is To Have
None’: Between Clandestine Practices and Facebook in Timor Leste, Media and
Culture/s in a Newly Independent Nation).
These scholars are researchers or faculty members from the University of the
Philippines (UP), Kyoto University (Japan), National University of Singapore,
Korea University, Seoul National University (Korea), Inha University (Korea),
Dongguk University (Korea) and Sungshin Women’s University (Korea).
Global Makeover is edited by Danilo Araña Arao, a journalist and assistant
professor at the UP College of Mass Communication.
The Development Center for Asia Africa and Pacific (DCAAP) and the Korea-based
Asian Media and Culture Forum (AMCF) are the publishers of the book. Sold at
PhP500 each, copies are available at the DCAAP office located on the second
floor of the School of Labor and Industrial Relations (SOLAIR) at UP Diliman,
Quezon City. For inquiries, please call DCAAP at (632) 926-9522 or send an email
to info.dcaap@yahoo.com. You may also visit its website at
http://www.dcaap.com.ph.
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Danilo A. Arao
Assistant Professor
Department of Journalism
College of Mass Communication Plaridel Hall
University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman, Q.C. 1101
Telephone: (+632) 920-6852, 981-8500 loc. 2672
Fax: (+632) 920-6852
Mobile Phone: (+63908) 866-ARAO
Email: danilo.arao@up.edu.ph
Website: http://www.dannyarao.com
(Disclamer)
Bene Nota: The views and opinions expressed here by the author are personal to him, and do not reflect the views and opinions of the website owners and administrators. Any issue or complaint about the article must be addressed solely to the author, who is solely responsible for the article.
Thirteen scholars from the Philippines, Korea, Japan, Singapore and East Timor
analyze the effects of globalization on various aspects of media and culture in
Asia in a recently published book.
Titled Global Makeover: Media and Culture in Asia, the more than 200-page book
consists of 11 articles that provide an in-depth look at how media operate due
to various influences, as well as how culture gets shaped by media systems,
technological developments and other factors.
In the book’s introduction, it was stressed that while the studies “do not cover
the entire Asian experience with regard to globalization and other influences,
they nevertheless give interested readers the specific experience in selected
Asian countries like the Philippines, Korea and East Timor while providing a
general context of Asian media and culture.”
The book’s contributors are Caroline Hau (Regional Contexts of Media Cooperation
and Artistic Collaboration in East Asia); Seung Joon Jun and Ju-Yong Ha (Whose
Stories Do We Listen To? World-System and the Pattern of International News
Flow); Ju-Yong Ha and Joel David (A Yearning for Tenderness in Korean Cinema);
Ying Huang and Kwang Woo Noh (Cultural Proximity and Cultural Distance: The
Reception of Korean Films in China Through the Case of My Sassy Girl in the
Early 2000s); Doobo Shim and Joseph Sung-Yul Park (The `English Fever’ in
Korea); Patrick Campos (The New Fantasy-Adventure Film as Contemporary Epic,
2000-2007); Shirley Palileo-Evidente (The Alternative Metaphor in Metaphors:
Discursive `Readings’ on Language, Symbols and Enculturation in Philippine
Cinema and Other Media); Joel David (Orientalism and Classical Film Practice);
Randy Jay Solis (The Grassroots Approach to Communication: How Participatory is
Participatory Communication in the Philippines?) ; Fernando Austria, Jr.
(Cross-Cultural Experience and Media Use: OFWs in Korea and Their
Acculturalization); and Jacqueline Aquino Siapno (`Their History Is To Have
None’: Between Clandestine Practices and Facebook in Timor Leste, Media and
Culture/s in a Newly Independent Nation).
These scholars are researchers or faculty members from the University of the
Philippines (UP), Kyoto University (Japan), National University of Singapore,
Korea University, Seoul National University (Korea), Inha University (Korea),
Dongguk University (Korea) and Sungshin Women’s University (Korea).
Global Makeover is edited by Danilo Araña Arao, a journalist and assistant
professor at the UP College of Mass Communication.
The Development Center for Asia Africa and Pacific (DCAAP) and the Korea-based
Asian Media and Culture Forum (AMCF) are the publishers of the book. Sold at
PhP500 each, copies are available at the DCAAP office located on the second
floor of the School of Labor and Industrial Relations (SOLAIR) at UP Diliman,
Quezon City. For inquiries, please call DCAAP at (632) 926-9522 or send an email
to info.dcaap@yahoo.com. You may also visit its website at
http://www.dcaap.com.ph.
(end)
Danilo A. Arao
Assistant Professor
Department of Journalism
College of Mass Communication Plaridel Hall
University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman, Q.C. 1101
Telephone: (+632) 920-6852, 981-8500 loc. 2672
Fax: (+632) 920-6852
Mobile Phone: (+63908) 866-ARAO
Email: danilo.arao@up.edu.ph
Website: http://www.dannyarao.com
(Disclamer)
Bene Nota: The views and opinions expressed here by the author are personal to him, and do not reflect the views and opinions of the website owners and administrators. Any issue or complaint about the article must be addressed solely to the author, who is solely responsible for the article.
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