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Transnational Broadcasting in Asia

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Participants:

Philip Kitley is a senior lecturer in Asian Studies at the University of Southern Queensland. His doctoral research from Murdoch University was concerned with "Television, Nation and Culture in Indonesia." From 1986-89 Kitley was cultural attache at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. His present research is focused on a survey of the Indonesian television industry at the beginning of the new millennium and the regulation of television in selected Asian countries.

Keval J. Kumar is reader in the Department of Communication and Journalism, Univrsity of Pune (India) and a director of the Resource Centre for Media Education and Research. He is the current president of the Media Education Section of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), and an associate member of ORBICOM. He is the author of “Mass Communication in India” (Bombay: Jaico Paperbacks) and “Media Education, Communication and Public Policy” (Bombay: Himalaya), and co-author of “Mass Media and the Environment: The North-South Divide” (London/New York: Routledge). He holds an MA in English literature from Bombay University and a Ph.D. in communication from Leicester University. He has taught at the universities of Bombay, Pune and Ohio State, and has published widely in edited books and academic journals.

Brian Shoesmith is an associate professor in Media Studies in the School of Communications and Multimedia, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia and director of the Centre for Asian Communication, Media and Cultural Studies. His research interests include Chinese TV policy, satellite broadcasting in Asia, and Indian cinema. He has taught in China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam and is currently completing a book (with Hart Cohen) on the significance of satellite broadcasting in Asia.

Amos Owen Thomas is senior lecturer at Griffith University. His research specialization is transnational television broadcasting via satellite in Asia-Pacific, and he has published on Indonesia, India, Papua New Guinea and Greater China. For over a decade Thomas has taught at other universities in Australia, Asia and the South Pacific, and for a half a decade previously worked for multinational advertising agencies in East Asia.

Tony Wilson was visiting associate professor in the Communication Studies Department at the Science University of Penang, Malaysia in 1997-98. He has held various academic posts in Australia and the UK, and is the author of Watching Television (Cambridge, UK and US, Polity Press, 1993, 1995). His current research is globalization with respect to television and the internet.