REVIEW: Welcome new face for critical media studies in South Pacific

Abstract

Review of Tokwin, edited by Nash G Sorariba, Information and Communication Science in association with UPNG Journalism Studies, University of Papua New Guinea. The editor, Nash G Sorariba, is well-known in the region for his short story telling gifts (A Medal without Honor was review by PJR). But here he has gathered together a rather eclectic collection here of 11 serious pieces about media issues, ranging form a reprint from The National of a defence Frank Morgan over the need for the UPNG course to continue when it was under threat in 1999 to former Post-Courier reporter Brian Tobia's treatise on PNG's sex workers and H G Mannur on PNG' widening econmic gap: "What went wrong?..."

Keywords

• globalisation
• UPNG
• pacific media
• PNG
• reviews