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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780647903321

Autore

Mohd. Azizuddin Mohd. Sani

Titolo

The public sphere and media politics in Malaysia [[electronic resource] /] / Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, c2009

Newcastle : , : Cambridge Scholars, , 2009

ISBN

1-282-18984-0

9786612189845

1-4438-0386-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Disciplina

302.2309595

Soggetti

Mass media - Malaysia

Mass media - Political aspects - Malaysia

Mass media - Social aspects - Malaysia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF CHARTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; ABBREVIATIONS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyses Malaysian media from the Jurgen Habermas' perspectives of "the public sphere" especially from the aspects of bourgeois public sphere, mass press, the commercialisation of the press and refeudalisation. Malaysia has also faced all of those aspects. However, the highlight of this book is the process called defeudalisation. The 2008 General Election has shown that a new public sphere of cyberspace or the Internet and the mobile phone was accessed and utilised significantly and...