Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change

Published by ISEAS Publishing 2019

Myanmar Media in Transition

Legacies, Challenges and Change

Edited by: Lisa Brooten , Jane Madlyn McElhone and Gayathry Venkiteswaran

https://doi.org/10.1355/9789814843409

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About this book

Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change is the first volume to overview the country’s contemporary media landscape, providing a critical assessment of the sector during the complex and controversial political transition. Moving beyond the focus on journalism and freedom of the press that characterizes many media-focused volumes, Myanmar Media in Transition also explores developments in fiction, filmmaking, social movement media and social media. Documenting changes from both academic and practitioner perspectives, the twenty-one chapters reinforce the volume’s theoretical arguments by providing on-the-ground, factual and experiential data intended to open useful dialogue between key stakeholders in the media, government and civil society sectors. Providing an overview of media studies in the country, Myanmar Media in Transition addresses current challenges, such as the use of social media in spreading hate speech and the shifting boundaries of free expression, by placing them within Myanmar’s broader historic social, political and economic context.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contributors and Editors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Burma or Myanmar? A Note on Terminology Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
1. Introduction: Myanmar Media Historically and the Challenges of Transition Lisa Brooten, Jane Madlyn McElhone and Gayathry Venkiteswaran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Structural Constraints and Opportunities
2. Legal Changes for Media and Expression: New Reforms, Old Controls Gayathry Venkiteswaran, Yin Yadanar Thein and Myint Kyaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
3. Whispered Support: Two Decades of International Aid for Independent Journalism and Free Expression Jane Madlyn McElhone and Lisa Brooten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
4. The Changing Face of Print Media: An Interview with News Veteran Thiha Saw Jane Madlyn McElhone and Gayathry Venkiteswaran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
5. Privacy Risks in Myanmar’s Emerging ICT Sector Kamran Emad and Erin McAuliffe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Part II. Journalism in Transition
6. Silencing a Snakehead Fish: A Case Study in Local Media, Rural-Based Activism, and Defamation Litigation in Southern Myanmar Jennifer Leehey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
7. Precarity and Risk in Myanmar’s Media: A Longitudinal Analysis of Natural Disaster Coverage by The Irrawaddy Susan Banki and Ja Seng Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
8. Educating a New Generation of Watchdogs: Interview with Ye Naing Moe, Director of the Yangon and Mandalay Journalism Schools Nai Nai and Jane Madlyn McElhone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
9. The Metamorphosis of Media in Myanmar’s Ethnic States Jane Madlyn McElhone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
10. Covering Rakhine: Journalism, Conflict and Identity Eaint Thiri Thu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
11. Media in Myanmar: Laws, Military and the Public Lawi Weng Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
12. Cracking the Glass Ceiling in Myanmar Media Thin Lei Win Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
13. Media and the 2015 General Elections Carine Jaquet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Part III. Creative Expression
14. Myanmar’s Pop Music Industry in Transition Heather MacLachlan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
15. New Video Generation: The Myanmar Motion Picture Industry in 2017 Jane M. Ferguson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
16. Films for Dignity Mon Mon Myat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
17. A “Fierce” Fear: Literature and Loathing after the Junta Ma Thida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Part IV. Society and Media
18. The Tea Shop Meets the 8 O’clock News: Facebook, Convergence and Online Public Spaces Yan Naung Oak and Lisa Brooten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
19. From Blogging to Digital Rights: Telecommunications Reform in Myanmar Htaike Htaike Aung and Wai Myo Htut Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	366
20. Counter-Narratives: Myanmar’s Digital Media Activists Sarah Oh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Epilogue: Media Studies in Myanmar – Where Do We Go from Here? Lisa Brooten, Jane Madlyn McElhone and Gayathry Venkiteswaran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: ISEAS Publishing
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 407
Keywords: Media Studies; Islamic Studies; Social Science

eBook

Published: May 13, 2019
ISBN: 9789814843409