Tan Tarn How
Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests: Media, creativity and the arts, civil society and politics

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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.

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:

Apathetic? Not Singaporean youth 
Article by Tan Tarn How, Chung Siyoung & Zhang Weiyu, The Straits Times, 27 May 2011

Some Questions on Technological and Social Determinism 
Article by Tan Tarn How, IPS Update, July 2010

Think-Tank Delegates Discuss Cultural Exchange Through Education 
Article by Tan Tarn How, IPS Update, July 2010

A newly emerging metropolis of arts and culture 
Article by Tan Tarn How, Global the International Briefing, Issue 3, June 2010

"Assessing Media Coverage: The AWARE Controversy as a Case Study" 
Article by Tan Tarn How, IPS Update, December 2009

"Public Communication in the Era of Twitter and Facebook" 
Article by Tan Tarn How, IPS Update, July 2009

"I am not alone" effect in cyberspace" 
Article by Tan Tarn How, IPS Update, 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
Paper presented by Arun Mahizhnan and Tan Tarn How at The Nanyang Academy of Fine Art’s International Symposium on "New Asian Imaginations", Singapore 1&2 August 2008
 
Subverting Seriousness and Other Misdemeanours: Modes of Resistance Against OB Markers in the 2006 Singapore General Election
Paper presented by Arun Mahizhnan and Tan Tarn How 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”, Manila, July 14—17, 2008

•  Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies