I graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) degree in Information & Communications Management (ICM) in the year 2004. I am currently pursuing my Masters Degree in Communications and New Media (CNM) which I will be completing at the end of 2005. During my Honours year, I had the privilege of interning for the Media Development Authority's (MDA) Media Content Division where I acquired many practical skills. I had the opportunity to assist my Directors and colleagues in assessing various TV programmes and categories of movie films before they were released for public viewing. Concurrently, I also contributed by way of writing several research papers concerning media content policy and regulatory issues. My attachment also involved some significant field-work where I had helped conduct focus groups. Overall, I am immensely pleased that I was able to contribute to these projects with the knowledge I had acquired via ICM modules. Aside from the above, I am a freelance web designer and have done a few commercial websites. My main interest however is digital video-shooting and editing, which I would like to develop as a family business in the future.

Dr Chung Peichi

The Interactive Television: Developing a Favorable Regulatory Environment in Singapore

This thesis investigates how the media regulatory agency in Singapore, the Media Development Authority, moulds the future of television in the context of media convergence among the telecommunications, Information Technology (IT) and broadcasting industries, which gives rise to the concept of Interactive TV (ITV). The ITV which transforms the conventional TV from a one-way broadcast medium to a two-way communication medium allows viewers to access internet-type content and services, on top of their regular TV programmes, such as Television-commerce, Television-mail, Interactive advertisements, Chat and more. Such capabilities however present challenges to the stringent media policy and regulatory mechanisms of Singapore, and raise the question of whether ITV will be allowed to developed to its full potential. Hence this paper discusses the policy discourse regarding the regulation and development of the ITV industry in Singapore to assess whether viewers will be able to exploit the advantages offered by this new medium.

• Content regulation
• Surveillance Technologies & Socio-Political Implications