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Media and Power in Southeast Asia

Gayathry Venkiteswaran author Cherian George author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:29th Aug '19

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Explores issues of global relevance around journalism's relationship with political power through the lens of Southeast Asian states.

Explores issues of global relevance around journalism's relationship with political power using Southeast Asian states. Argues that development of free, independent, and plural media has been complicated by commercialisation, the Internet, and identity-based politics. These open up political space and pluralise discourse, but do not necessarily produce change.This study of Southeast Asian media and politics explores issues of global relevance pertaining to journalism's relationship with political power. It argues that the development of free, independent, and plural media has been complicated by trends towards commercialisation, digital platforms, and identity-based politics. These forces interact with state power in complex ways, opening up political space and pluralising discourse, but without necessarily producing structural change. The Element has sections on the democratic transitions of Indonesia, Myanmar and Malaysia; authoritarian resilience in Singapore; media ownership patterns in non-communist Southeast Asia; intolerance in Indonesia and Myanmar; and digital disruptions in Vietnam and Malaysia.

ISBN: 9781108467889

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm

Weight: 140g

75 pages