Papers by Nur Kareelawati Abd Karim
This work presents our efforts to enhance the adoption of Robotics in the TV & Film Industry. Spe... more This work presents our efforts to enhance the adoption of Robotics in the TV & Film Industry. Specifically, through our efforts in developing the IoT-enabled Robotic Camera Dolly (IRCD), The Pre & Post Interview Protocol, and reporting on the reaction and perception of the TV production and filming crew.
Proceedings of the 2nd Social and Humaniora Research Symposium (SoRes 2019), 2020
Working in an ecosystem that dominantly targeting at wealth creation often force workers to face ... more Working in an ecosystem that dominantly targeting at wealth creation often force workers to face many forms of pressure and sacrifices. The situations worsen in the private sector of media industry as media workers in creative industries work for long exhaustive hours that leads to imbalance and unhealthy lifestyle including emotional wellbeing, which in the long run involved in serious health issues. This paper therefore intends to find out the influence of ecosystem of a workplace influencing Muslim media practitioners' wellbeing. To what extend does the environment at a workplace influence Muslim media practitioners' life and job performance. How do they negotiate the environment, their work and religious life at workplace? Interviews among Muslim media managers in Malaysia discovered that leadership, time management, and work culture are key factors ensuring healthy ecosystem for Muslim media workers in creative media industries.
‘Abqari Journal, Dec 26, 2018
Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 2017
This article examines the power dynamics that shape the production culture of the Islam Channel, ... more This article examines the power dynamics that shape the production culture of the Islam Channel, a Muslim television based in London. A study of production culture is critical as it stands to support our understanding of how religious television programming comes to take the form it does. This article adopts the discourses of the 'clash' drawn from culturalist Samuel Huntington and reformist Edward Said's theses to identify the power dynamics facing the Channel. The study employs an ethnographic research design that forms a two-layer analysis that includes the socio-cultural environment that the Channel exists and its institutional context. While the first layer of the research design discusses the discourses of the 'clash' that exist in the western society, the latter examines the missionary (da'wah) goals of the Channel. The results of the analysis point to the extent to which the missionary (da'wah) goals of the Channel manifest the 'clash' that shape its production culture and the 'clash' between the western and Muslim cultures. The Channel's endeavour to seclude itself from 'a suspect community' (e.g., fundamentalists and extremists) has nurtured the 'culture of caution' among members of the production community at the Islam Channel. Such a 'culture of caution' has impacted the production quality and working life of employees involved in the production of magazine talk show Living the Life (2012 – present).
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-No... more This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Drawing on media sociology and cultural studies approaches, this thesis aims to conceptualise the... more Drawing on media sociology and cultural studies approaches, this thesis aims to conceptualise the production culture of religious television. The study of production culture emphasises ‘collective, daily cultural performance involving symbolic codes, [and] conventionalized power hierarchies’ within media organisation (Caldwell, 2008, p. 342). The study of production culture of Islam-based television is important as it stands to aid our understanding of how religious television programming – and in particular, Islamic television programming – comes to take the form it does. It might also enhance our understanding of how and under what conditions television production employees produce television programmes. By combining participant observation and interviews with textual analysis, this study analyses the complex ways in which television production workers adapt to the resource limitations and ideological constraints within the production culture of a television channel. It analyses b...
Penulis adalah seorang pensyarah Media dan Dakwah di USIM, pernah berkhidmat di ASTRO dari 2001-2... more Penulis adalah seorang pensyarah Media dan Dakwah di USIM, pernah berkhidmat di ASTRO dari 2001-2008 sebelum berkecimpung dalam bidang akademik.
2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2021
The adoption of Robotics in TV & Film is not on par with other industries. In this work, we i... more The adoption of Robotics in TV & Film is not on par with other industries. In this work, we investigate the possible causes. If we think of TV robots (robotic cameras, dollys) as social robots, their level of adoption in the industry would depend on how Social they are, which we can improve through positive perception and an effective Human-Robot Interaction framework. To validate this, we interviewed a crew of camera operators about TV robots. 60% reported negative feelings; fears of loss of jobs and relevance, but 60% wanted to learn more. Based on that, we developed an Internet of Things (IoT)- enabled Robotic Camera Dolly (IRCD) for the operators, with a companion interview/guidance protocol; the Pre and Post Interview Protocol, to monitor their reactions. Next, we deployed the IRCD at their TV station, where they completed a set of filming tasks using the IRCD. There was a jump in perception, with 60% positive feelings, 95% wanting to learn more, and 95% successfully completing their robot-powered filming tasks. Also, the IRCD registered a 0.15s response time and 5s video delay time, well within industry limits. These results show that positive perception and effective HRI could stimulate the adoption of Robotics in the TV & Film industry. An additional unplanned result; the IRCD, with its remote operations, enabled creators to continue making content while observing social distancing, thus reducing the financial impact of Covid-19 Lockdowns on TV & Film Production.
Advanced Science Letters, 2017
This paper addresses the need for developing a human management model for Muslims working in tele... more This paper addresses the need for developing a human management model for Muslims working in television industries. While a Human Resource Management (HRM) is primarily concerned with the administration of people within organizations, focusing on policies and systems, a human management model provides a solution to how managers of television organizations may help Muslims workers striking a balance between their work and their religious life. This study combines and compares extensive literature from the media management, sociology and psycho-spiritual approaches to the study of Muslims in media industries. Many research into creative media workers show that working in television production involved overwork, long hour, poor pay, isolation, and insecurity. These studies, however, lack emphasis on the religious life of employees involved. As for Muslims working in television industries, such poor experiences may have a great impact on their religious life. Hence, a model of human management for Muslims in television industries is essential to identify challenges and to support their efforts to strike a balance between their professional and religious life.
The Journal of International Communication, 2018
Jurnal Komunikasi, Malaysian Journal of Communication, 2018
By drawing on ethnographic data gathered from British and Malaysian Islamic television channels b... more By drawing on ethnographic data gathered from British and Malaysian Islamic television channels between 2012 and 2017, this article argues that different religiopolitical and sociocultural environments in which such television production workers as creative managers, producers and researchers exist, shape how they make creative decisions for religious programmes that they produced. This article points to the extent to which these television production workers from both the British and Malaysian television channels have various degrees of creative autonomy, and how 'limited' creative autonomy affects their working life. The results show that the creative managers and producers of British Muslim television channel have lesser autonomy than their Malaysian counterparts. The clash between the Western and Islamic cultures and intergenerational clash are mainly the forms of religiopolitical and sociocultural factors that shape the creative autonomy in Islamic television production in Britain. Such representational issues relating to religious personalities, music artists and performances, and women, are among the constraints that these workers faced. By contrast, creative managers and producers in Malaysia, have some degree of autonomy. Unlike their British colleagues, religiopolitical and sociocultural factors concerning identity politics have less implication for their working life. Nonetheless, despite having a higher level of creative autonomy than their British equals, their creative decisions often are driven by the notion of giving what audiences want. Such commercial pressures as audience ratings and advertising force are the primary factors that shape the creative autonomy of managers and producers of Islamic programmes in Malaysia.
The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review, 2010
The new millennium witnesses a new phenomenon that is known as “back to religion” along with the ... more The new millennium witnesses a new phenomenon that is known as “back to religion” along with the impact of the article of Samuel Huntington (1993)“the Clash of Civilization.” This new phenomenon promotes inter-religious dialogue as one of the methods of propagating ...
Jurnal Komunikasi: Malaysian Journal of Communication, 2019
This paper addresses the need for developing a human management model for Muslims working in tele... more This paper addresses the need for developing a human management model for Muslims working in television industries. While a Human Resource Management (HRM) is primarily concerned with the administration of people within organizations, focusing on policies and systems, a human management model provides a solution to how managers of television organizations may help Muslims workers striking a balance between their work and their religious life. This study combines and compares extensive literature from the media management, sociology and psycho-spiritual approaches to the study of Muslims in media industries. Many research into creative media workers show that working in television production involved overwork, long hour, poor pay, isolation, and insecurity. These studies, however, lack emphasis on the religious life of employees involved. As for Muslims working in television industries, such poor experiences may have a great impact on their religious life. Hence, a model of human management for Muslims in television industries is essential to identify challenges and to support their efforts to strike a balance between their professional and religious life.
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Papers by Nur Kareelawati Abd Karim