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Tan Tarn How
Senior Research Fellow
Research Interests: Media, creativity and the arts, civil society and politics
DID: (65) 6516 8368
Fax: (65) 6763 6033
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| Curriculum Vitae |
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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, on censorship, 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, the role of new media in the 2008 Malaysian election and the 2006 Singapore election, and the impact of new media on old media. 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. He graduated from Cambridge University. |
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Books/Reports:
Impressions of the Goh Chok Tong Years in Singapore
Bridget Welsh, James Chin, Arun Mahizhnan and Tan Tarn How, eds., Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies and NUS Press Singapore, 2009
Singapore Perspectives 2009: The Heart of the Matter
Tan Tarn How, ed., Singapore: World Scientific for IPS, 2007
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
Speeches and Articles:
"Public Communication in the Era of Twitter and Facebook" 
Article by Tan Tarn How, in IPS Updates, July 2009
"I am not alone" effect in cyberspace"
Article by Tan Tarn How, in IPS Updates, May 2009
Bad news and two myths
Article by Tan Tarn How, Today, 13 September 2008
A new assumption and a leap of faith
Article by Arun Mahizhnan and Tan Tarn How, The Straits Times, 10 September 2008
Does modern S’pore need a vision?
Article by Tan Tarn How, Today, 30 August 2008
Use social immune system to fight ills of racist speech
Article by Tan Tarn How, The Straits Times, 28 September 2007
Chances poor that public will take to the Net during polls
Article by Tan Tarn How, The Straits Times, 7 April 2006
Others:
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 |
| Current Positions |
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- Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies
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