Mass Media in Malaysia Lecture

This is just to remind you that the Department of Communication is co-sponsoring, along with ACAS, a lecture by Professor Kokkeong on Media in Malaysia: The Peculiar Case of Mainstream Media versus Alternative Media on Tuesday, 12 August 2008 at 1:30-3:00 pm. This will be held in Conference Rooms 1 & 2 of the old Social Sciences Building.

Please email or text me if you are interested. Slots are limited!

A +2 in the final mark will be given to student/s who ask/s a critical question during the lecture. A +3 in the quizzes will be given to student/s who write/s a one-page assessment of Kokkeong's study identifying its strengths and weaknesses in terms of rationale, theory, methodology, findings, conclusion, ethics, etc.

This is a very good exercise, as much of MAG2.0 is about enabling students to be more reflective and reflexive about essays, readings, and case studies that you encounter in your different classes.

Here's an example of a review of an empirical study. Here, Mirca Madianou critiques my PhD proposal which aims to examine how Filipinos in different contexts relate with distant others in the media.