MICRO-BIO

• Hellena Souisa is PhD Candidate at the University of Melbourne.  Her research areas include media and politics, media economics, broadcast media, and journalism with a research focus on media and politics in Indonesia. Her current research is on con...More

  Hellena Souisa is PhD Candidate at the University of Melbourne.  Her research areas include media and politics, media economics, broadcast media, and journalism with a research focus on media and politics in Indonesia. Her current research is on content diversity and ownership in contemporary Indonesian television. She is also documentarian in WatchdoC Indonesia whose works focus on promoting social advocacy. Amongst her documentary pieces are 'Yang Ketu7uh', a documentary about Indonesia's General Election 2014, and 'Kubur Kabar Kabur' which documents violence cases against journalists in Indonesia.

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EXPERIENCE

• University of Melbourne

  • PhD Candidate
  • Asia Institute
  • Present

EDUCATION

• Cardiff University

  • MA in Journalism, Media, and Communication
  • September 2012 to August 2013

Links

• Partisan players: television and the elections
• Misinformation, Ratna the hoaxer, and 1965
• Indonesia takes an ultra-nationalist turn against Islamic populism
• Regulating Convergence: Challenges for Contemporary Media in Indonesia