CAPSTRANS RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Professor Philip Kitley

School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication, Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong

Qualifications

PhD (Murdoch)
MEd (Hons) (UNSW)
MA (Murdoch)

Research Programs

Culture and Representation

Research Specialisation

My research is concerned with the mediatisation of social, cultural and political change in Indonesia and Malaysia. Recent work has focused on the question whether regulatory regimes in Asian countries are hospitable to civil society. Related research is concerned with opportunities and trends towards “publicness” in Indonesia which I am investigating across a number of sites such as election campaigns, the law, the changing role of the parliament and public broadcasting. A third area of research is concerned with the growing interest television stations have in adapting licensed formats. Working with colleagues Albert Moran (Griffith University) and Michael Keane (Queensland University of Technology) I have examined formats as a form of cultural technology linked to intellectual capitalism.

Languages

Indonesian.

Current Research Projects

• From Mass to Public: Discourses and Representations of Popular Sovereignty in Indonesia
• Civil Society, Public Spheres and the Media in Indonesia
• The adaptation of globally circulated television programs supplied to third parties under license agreements

Recent Publications

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date

• (2003) “Closing the Creativity Gap: Renting Intellectual Capacity in the Name of Local Content”, in Albert Moran and Michael Keane (eds.), Television Across Asia, Programme Formats, and Globalisation, Routledge Curzon, London, chapter 10.
• (2003) “Ethnographers, Critics and Voyeurs: Cross-cultural Research of Performance and Television”, Malaysian Journal of Media Studies.
• (2003) ed., Television, Regulation and Civil Society in Asia, RoutledgeCurzon, London (288pp).
• (2003) “Introduction: first principles – television, regulation and transversal civil society in Asia”, Philip Kitley (ed.), Television, Regulation and Transversal Civil Society in Asia, Routledge Curzon, London, pp. 3-34.
• (2003) “Civil society in charge?: television and the public sphere in Indonesia after Reformasi”, Philip Kitley (ed.), Television, Regulation and Transversal Civil Society in Asia, RoutledgeCurzon, London, pp. 97-114.
• (2003) with Zaharom Nain, “Out in front: government regulation of television in Malaysia”, Philip Kitley (ed.), Television, Regulation and Transversal Civil Society in Asia, RoutledgeCurzon, London, pp. 80-96.
• (2002) “Into the Thick of Things: Tracking the Vectors of Indonesian Mediations”, in Henk Schulte Nordholt (ed.), Indonesia in Transition, Pustaka Pelajar, Yogyakarta.
• (2001) Konstruksi Budaya Bangsa Di Layar Kaca (The Construction of National Culture on Television), translated by Bambang Agung, Ylia Diniastuti and Rizadini, ISAI and LSPP, Jakarta.
• (2001) “After the Bans: Modelling Indonesian Communications for the Future”, in Grayson Lloyd and Shannon Smith (eds.), Indonesia Today: Challenges of History, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, pp. 256-269.
• (2001) “Subject to what?: A comparative analysis of recent approaches to regulating television and broadcasting in Indonesia and Malaysia”, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 503-514.
• (2001) “Television” (one of the five sections in the CD) Voices and Visions From Indonesia, National Curriculum Council, Melbourne. A National Asian Language and Studies in Australia Schools (NALSAS) project.
• (2001) Review of Rodney Tiffen, Diplomatic Deceits: Government, Media and East Timor, UNSW Press, Kensington, 2001, in Media International Australia, 100, pp. 196-197.
• (2001) Review of Abdul Razak, Mass Media Laws and Regulations in Indonesia, Asian Media and Communication Centre, Singapore, 2000, in Media International Australia, No. 99, pp. 152-153.
• (2000) Television, Nation and Culture in Indonesia, Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio.
• (2000) with Warwick Mules, “The Flor Contemplacion Case as Media Event”, Damien Kingsbury, Eric Loo and Trish Payne (eds.), Foreign Devils and Other Journalists, Monash Asia Institute, Clayton, pp. 77-96.
• (2000) “Reformasi, Vulnerable Values and the Regulation of Television in Indonesia”, Asia Pacific Media Educator, Vol. 8, pp. 132-148.
• (2000) Review of Krishna Sen and David T. Hill, Media, Culture and Politics in Indonesia, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, 2000, in Media International Australia, No. 97, pp. 167-168.
• (2000) Review of Dale F. Eickelman and Jon W. Anderson (eds.), New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1999, in Media International Australia, No. 96, pp. 185-187.

Organisational Affiliations

• School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication