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Social media and Fiji’s 2018 national election
Political campaigning on social media in Fiji was first witnessed in the 2014 national election. In the Fiji 2018 general election, social media political campaigning had evolved with greater complexity and a wider variety of implications.
Jope Tarai
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Social media and democracy: The Fiji 2022 National Election
Since the 2014 Fiji General Election, social media political campaigning has continued to be a consistent feature in the country’s politics. This was evident in the 2022 National Election with many more political parties engaging in creative and ...
Jope Tarai
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To Regulate or Not: Fiji’s Social Media [PDF]
This In Brief seeks to document the proposed plans for curtailing the ‘excesses’ of social media and challenges some of the ongoing claims related to social media.
Tarai, Jope V.
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Critical Fiji media studies defy climate of censorship
The special edition on ‘Media and Democracy in Fiji’ of Fijian Studies: A Journal of Contemporary Fiji is an engaging collection of articles of diverse quality presented in varying degrees of intellectual temperaments, some with political passion and ...
Steven Ratuva
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Literacy and the media in the Fiji Islands
In a previous article in this journal (Geraghty 2001), I pointed out that while Fijian and Fiji Hindi are by far the most commonly used language in everyday interaction in Fiji, the language of the media is almost exclusively English.
Paul Geraghty
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The contempt case of the 'Tongan three'
Media commentators see the jailings of two Taimi 'o Tongajournalists and an MP whistleblower in Tonga as the most serious threat to media freedom in the South Pacific since the Fiji coups in 1987.
David Robie
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Fiji has endured four coups in the past 22 years. On 10 April 2009, President Ratu Josefa Iloilo suspended the Constitution, sacked the judiciary, postponed any general election until 2014 and appointed himself as head of state.
Patrick Craddock
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The Fiji media decree: A push towards collaborative journalism
This article evaluates Fiji’s Media Industry Development Decree 2010 by drawing a link between it and the Singaporean media laws and the collaborative role the Fijian regime claims journalism should play in the nation’s development.
Reggie Dutt
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Failure of political governance in Fiji: Dysfunctional policy and the media
Failure of political governance in Fiji is a common place where lack of democratic bargaining, political transparency, and accountability has led to political dysfunction and often political strife in the Pacific Island countries such as Fiji due to ...
Sanjay Ramesh
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Transparency and the Fiji news media
'Why was there no full text of the Prime Minister's speech published prior to the media starting to defend itself, in the name of media freedom? Why was the public left in the dark, with only snippets to guide it?'
Ikbal Jannif
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