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  • Authors: Richard Fox (2006)

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  • Authors: Penelope Coutas (2006)

  • A new celebrity identity has been created in and by the media in Indonesia in the twenty-first century: the Idola who have come to fame on reality television shows, particularly talent quests such as Indonesian Idol, AFI, and KDI. Of these, Indonesian Idol is often regarded by fans and viewers as ‘the original and the best’, and has been identified by producers and advertisers as one of the most popular reality show imports in Indonesia to date. This article examines different frameworks for approaching the fame, fortune, and fantasi of Indonesian Idol, and considers issues of cultural imperialism, globalization, audience interactivity, and ‘glocalization’. The programme is a rich source for exploring issues of celebrity production and consumption in Indonesia today, and for examini...

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  • Authors: Gareth Barkin (2006)

  • Indonesia’s private television industry blossomed into a powerful source of national, mass culture production in the 1990’s and early 2000’s. This essay examines the ways in which producers’ subject position, in relation to global media form and narrative, is transformed, through production processes and conventions, into a distinctive ‘way of looking’. By focusing on the example of a travel program, issues related to the representation of elements classified as ‘traditional’ or ‘ethnic’ is explored. Grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork among the country’s TV producers, programmers and station executives, the essay puts forward the notion that the use of global forms and narratives leads to the encoding of a particular ‘gaze’ in popular programming, which positions viewers a...

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  • Authors: Byoungkwan Lee; Karen M. Lancendorfer; Ki Jung Lee (2006)

  • The purpose of this study was to explore the intermedia influence of the Internet on traditional news media. Accordingly, this study examined the influence of Internet bulletin boards on newspaper coverage of the 2000 general election in South Korea at both first and second levels of agenda-setting through content analyses of major newspapers and the Internet bulletin boards during the campaign. Results of cross-lagged correlation analyses showed that newspapers influenced Internet bulletin boards at the first level of agenda-setting. Additionally, at the second level of agenda-setting, the influence of Internet bulletin boards on newspapers was found. Although reciprocity appeared in a few time spans, the results imply that the Internet funnels and leads public opinion as well as a...