ISBN:
041536499X
,
9780415364997
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 227 p)
,
ill
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Serie:
Rethinking Southeast Asia
Paralleltitel:
Print version Virtual Thailand : The media and cultural politics in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore
DDC:
302.23/0954
Schlagwort(e):
Mass media and culture
;
Mass media Political aspects
;
Southeast Asia Cultural policy
;
Southeast Asia Politics and government 1945-
Kurzfassung:
Incorporating political economy and media theory, Lewis provides a unique insight into globalization in Southeast Asia, analyzing the role of communications and media in regional cultural politics
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Rethinking Southeast Asia; Contents; List of Plates and tables; Plates; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and abbreviations; International; Southeast Asia; Introduction; 1 Singapore, KL and Bangkok as rival communications centres; Communications regionalism and techno-nationalism; Singapore: the price of being an 'intelligent island'; Kuala Lumpur: the Malaysian Multimedia Super Corridor; Bangkok: a capital of consumer desire; The limits to techno-nationalism; 2 Development and democratization; Singapore, Malaysia and the crisis
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
The Thai crisis: why did it happen, who was to blame, what is to be done?Regional resource controversies in Thailand's poorer neighbours; The media and environmental politics; 'Thaksinomics' and Thai regional ambitions; 3 The military, the media and moral panics; Media control and moral panics in Singapore and Malaysia; Thailand 2001: 'social order' and the 'war on terror'; 2002: muzzling the media - the AMLO affair; 2003: the 'war on drugs' and the Chuwit sideshow; Moral media panics as a moveable feast; 4 Media reform and civil society in 'Amazing Thailand'
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Civil society and Thai print journalismThe main media players; Media business and the National Broadcasting Commission; Community radio: people's empowerment or political pawn?; Remodelling the media by preferential privatization; The limits of Thai media reform; 5 Tourism and terrorism in mainland Southeast Asia; Regional tourism rivalries; Thai tourism, take 1: 'a land of diversity and refinement'; Thai tourism, take 2: sun, sand and SARS; Terrorism and disorder in Southeast Asia; Tourism, terrorism and collective memory; 6 The Thai movie renaissance
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Screening the nation: alternative historiesAlternative routes to transnationalization; Gender, the body and the family; Ghost movies: phii versus phra; Defining the self; Cultural tensions in Thai movies; Afterword; Appendix; Notes; References; Books, articles and unpublished sources; Journalism sources online; Institutional sources online; Kyoto Review online; Individual authors online; Index
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [184]-221) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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