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Singapore Radio
Author: Bradley C. Freeman
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date: 2016-04-26
The world of media moves quickly – nowhere is this more the case than Singapore, a world-class alpha city that prides itself on being first. This book tracks the journey of Singapore radio from its humble beginnings to its advanced modern-day incarnations. Along the way, Freeman and Ramakrishnan also detail economic, political, cultural, and technological aspects of this medium in Singapore. The role of radio is deliberated, as well as the times when radio and its personalities have broken the rules. In addition, campus radio and social media are also discussed. The book functions as a treasure-trove, partial archive, and starting point for those interested in knowing more about the radio portion of Singapore’s media landscape. At the same time, it serves as a fitting birthday present to the medium, as radio meets and passes the 80-year mark in the country. As such, the book makes significant contributions to multiple aspects of the radio medium as it exists in Singapore, aspects that are not to be found anywhere else.
The Storytelling State
Author: Cheng Nien Yuan
language: en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date: 2025-07-31
In The Storytelling State, Cheng Nien Yuan, a Singaporean performance scholar and dramaturg, charts Singapore’s development into a storytelling state since the 2010s. In such a state, public (auto)biographical stories of everyday people, elicited through visualized narrative interviews, proliferate the nation’s mediascape. Governmental agencies and government-linked institutions actively facilitate this phenomenon through campaigns and funding incentives. Examining several key campaigns from the period of 2011–2021, Cheng shows how state and society collaborate to cultivate an intimate, confessional public. Taken together, these stories generate a new paradigm of communicating social policy and the “Singapore Story” by mapping the national archive onto everyday bodies. Bite-sized pieces of consumable lives are marketed as authentic windows to the private self, producing ways of being, doing, and feeling in the nation, in accordance with contemporary societal concerns. This book enters a larger debate about storytelling’s impact around the world in the digital age. Singapore’s storytelling state functions within a global network of performing memory with new media. Its origins can be traced to popular American models of oral history-telling as seen in StoryCorps and Humans of New York, with their techniques appropriated for a Singaporean audience. Yet, even when well-intentioned, the claims of such projects of giving voice to the non-elite and the marginalized can be undermined by injurious effects that are not unique to the Singaporean context. At the same time, the embodied and emotional nature of these performances make the absolute control of meaning difficult. Often, they reveal more than they should, transgressing the normative demands of the storytelling state. At stake here are performances of identity, mobility, and belonging. When the national stage is set for life itself, what does it mean to have a life?
Strength In Motion: The Next Chapter Of Stroke
Strength in Motion: The Next Chapter of Stroke is Terence Ang's third book, following A Cry in the Dark and Emerging from the Dark.Strength in Motion: The Next Chapter of Stroke offers a profound look at one man's incredible journey of triumph over adversity, shedding light on the physical, emotional, and psychological hurdles that often characterise the aftermath of a stroke.From someone gripped by fear to an individual emerging with greater strength and confidence, Terence's story transcends the ordinary and speaks to the indomitable spirit that resides within us all. Within these pages, readers are taken on a voyage into the transformative power of exercise, witnessing how movement contributes not only to the restoration of physical abilities, but also the reshaping of one's mindset.The inclusion of medical perspectives and fellow stroke survivors' narratives provide a broader understanding of the complexities inherent in stroke recovery. This book intertwines expert insights with Terence's journey together with previously unreleased images providing a visual diary of his life, exploring the transformative potential of exercise in stroke recovery. It was crafted to offer a fresh perspective on the subject, with QR codes that link to various exercises featured in the book.Strength in Motion: The Next Chapter of Stroke aims to empower survivors of stroke, and initiate discussions on how the larger society can offer support and solidarity to those on the path of recovery. It presents much opportunity to explore innovative approaches, resources, and avenues for enhancing the lives of stroke survivors.