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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455370603321

Titolo

Television, regulation, and civil society in Asia / / edited by Philip Kitley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-43194-5

1-280-07030-7

0-203-21767-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 266 p.)

Classificazione

05.36

Altri autori (Persone)

KitleyPhilip <1946->

Disciplina

384.55/095

Soggetti

Television broadcasting policy - Asia

Television broadcasting - Asia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I Overview introduction - first principles: regulation and transversal civil society in comparative perspective profiles - national television systems in Asia. Part II Regulation and transversal civil society in Southeast Asia and Australia: television, media reform and civil society in "amazing Thailand"; out front - government regulation of television in Malaysia; civil society in charge? - television and the public sphere in Indonesia after reforms; civic or civil contingencies? - regulating television and society in Singapore; out of reach - television, the public sphere and civil society in the Philippines; television, regulation and citizenship in Australia. Part III Regulation and transversal civil society in Northeast Asia: civil society, regulatory space and cultural authority in China's television industry; television in the formation of civil society - the role of a non-controversial public space in Hong Kong; sliding back the screens - civil society and the erosion of bureaucratic control of television in Japan; civil society as the fifth estate - civil society, media reform and democracy in Korea. Part IV Beyond the nation: satellite television; national sovereignity in an age of transnational television - an endnote on media regulation and civil society in Asia.

Sommario/riassunto

This highly topical book exposes the tensions between state policies of



broadcasting regulation and practices of civil society in the Asian region which is struggling with its incorporation into a new globalized, electronic information and entertainment world.