Tan Tarn How

Senior Research Fellow

 

 

 

  Research Interests

Media, creativity and the arts, civil society and politics

   

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Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Mr Tan Tarn How is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies.

 

His research areas are in arts and cultural policy and media and Internet policy. He has written on the development of the arts in Singapore, in particular, fostering partnerships between the people, private and public sectors, on the creative industries in Singapore, China and Korea, on the history of cultural policy in Singapore, and on the management of media in Singapore. He has also carried out research on the impact of the Internet and new technology on society, the regulation of the Internet, and the role of new media in the 2008 Malaysian election and the 2006 Singapore election. He was a journalist for nearly one and half decades before joining IPS. He has also been a teacher and television scriptwriter and is an award-winning playwright.

 

Major Publications

 

New Asia: Projecting Soft Power

Arun, Mahizhnan and Tan, Tarn How. 2008. Paper delivered at The Nanyang Academy of Fine Art’s International Symposium on "New Asian Imaginations", 1&2 August 2008, Singapore

 

Subverting Seriousness and Other Misdemeanours: Modes of Resistance Against OB Markers in the 2006 Singapore General Election

Tan, Tarn How and Arun, Mahizhnan. 2008. Paper delivered at the 17th Annual Conference of the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) on “Changing Media, Changing Societies: Media and the Millennium Development Goals” held on July 14—17, 2008, in Manila.

 

Singapore Perspectives 2007: A New Singapore

Tan Tarn How, ed., Singapore: World  Scientific for IPS, 2007.

 

Personality + Power = Changes Unlikely

Tan Tarn How, in Arun Mahizhnan, ed., Singapore Perspectives 2004: At the Dawn of a New Era, Marshall Cavendish Academic for IPS, 2004