Diploma Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject South Asian
Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, grade: 2,3, University of
Bonn, course: Regionalwissenschaften Sudostasien,
Medienwissenschaften, language: English, abstract: Singapore's
media system has been stable through a period of revolutionary
change and impressive reform elsewhere. While new players and
technologies have found its way into the media scene, the ruling
People's Action Party's (PAP) upholds the media's fundamental
structure. Historical racial rioting has been linked to justify the
subordinate role of the press. In contrast to the Western Press
which is often denominated as the 'fourth estate' of the state, the
Singaporean press is rather to support the PAP's politics. Due to
different political, historical, cultural and economic environment,
authoritarian politicians in Southeast Asia argue that freedom of
the press, as a Western concept, has a different meaning and weight
unlike in the Western industrial nations because of its different
value system. The Asian values require the harmony between the
press and the state as in the 'partners in nationbuilding' to
maintain its authoritarian governance and at the same time sharing
a common interest in economic growth. Singapore's government has
promoted and established sophisticated information and
communication technologies amongst the first. Nowadays, Singapore
can consider itself as one of the most developed and best networked
states in the world. Feared by the challenges of the New Media and
the free and open exchange which might lead to confusion and
opposition to the PAP's activities, the government enacted laws and
encouraged a system of censorship to tame the press. The
well-functioning system consists of legal restrictions, technical
filters and informal censorship, such as self-censorship. A closer
look at this pragmatic and sensitive approach of censorship,
Singapore's government seems prepared to deal with the New Media
and further ch
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