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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.
Communication is ubiquitous and information is abundant. Political
and economic markets are more open than they have ever been. Yet,
there is no escaping the fact that communication continues to flow
across fields where power is distributed unevenly. This collection
of articles analyzes and responds to asymmetries of power in a
diversity of contexts. They are drawn from presentations at the
2016 Annual Conference of the International Communication
Association, held in Fukuoka, Japan. The conference theme presented
an opening for scholars from various disciplines and academic
traditions to engage with the questions of power at different
levels of analysis-from micro sites of power like a doctor's
consultation room, to the geopolitical arenas where nations wage
war, make peace, and spy on one another. The resulting collection
straddles different methodologies and styles, from survey research
to essays. Leading scholars and junior researchers have combined to
create a volume that reflects the breadth of communication
scholarship and its contemporary concerns.
For decades, the city-state of Singapore has been an international
anomaly, combining an advanced and open economy with reduced civil
liberties and press freedom. The book analyses the country's media
system, showing how it has been structured - like the rest of the
political framework - to provide maximum freedom of manoeuvre for
the People's Action Party (PAP) government. Going beyond critique,
the author explains how the PAP's ""freedom from the press"" model
has achieved its extraordinary resilience and stability. One key
factor was the PAP's early recognition that capitalism and the
profit motive could be harnessed as a way to tame journalism.
Second, the PAP exercised strategic self-restraint in the use of
force, progressively turning to subtler means of control that were
less prone to backfire on the state. Third, unlike many
authoritarian regimes, the PAP remained open to ideas and change
and occasional failure, this helped the PAP to consolidate its
authoritarian form of electoral democracy. This volume is essential
reading for those who are interested in Singapore's media and
political system. Singapore's unique place on the world map of
press freedom and democracy makes the book an important
contribution to the comparative study of journalism and politics.
Communication is ubiquitous and information is abundant. Political
and economic markets are more open than they have ever been. Yet,
there is no escaping the fact that communication continues to flow
across fields where power is distributed unevenly. This collection
of articles analyzes and responds to asymmetries of power in a
diversity of contexts. They are drawn from presentations at the
2016 Annual Conference of the International Communication
Association, held in Fukuoka, Japan. The conference theme presented
an opening for scholars from various disciplines and academic
traditions to engage with the questions of power at different
levels of analysis-from micro sites of power like a doctor's
consultation room, to the geopolitical arenas where nations wage
war, make peace, and spy on one another. The resulting collection
straddles different methodologies and styles, from survey research
to essays. Leading scholars and junior researchers have combined to
create a volume that reflects the breadth of communication
scholarship and its contemporary concerns.
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