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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792460703321

Titolo

Media, culture and society in Malaysia / / edited by Yeoh Seng Guan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-16927-6

1-135-16928-4

1-282-57592-9

9786612575921

0-203-86165-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

Routledge Malaysian studies series

Altri autori (Persone)

GuanYeoh Seng

Disciplina

302.2309595

306.09595

Soggetti

Mass media - Social aspects - Malaysia

Mass media - Political aspects - Malaysia

Communication in politics - Malaysia

Mass media and culture - Malaysia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Representation, cultural mediation and power in Malaysia; 1 Consumers, citizens and copycat television in Malaysia; 2 Packaging the PM: The art and ideology of political advertising; 3 The Dayak Festival as a media ritual of nation building; 4 Civil society use of media and ICT: A case study of the SOS Selangor campaign; 5 Running cyburbia: Internet and local governance in Subang Jaya; 6 Shame and the Fourth Wall: Some thoughts on an anthropology of the cinema

7 Through our own eyes: Independent documentary .lmmaking in Malaysia8 Reclaiming history: The politics of memory and trauma in the films of Amir Muhammad; 9 Facing the music: Music subcultures and "morality" in Malaysia; 10 Malaysiatropia: The art of Simryn Gill, Liew Kung Yu and Wong Hoy Cheong; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a comprehensive, full-length analysis of the uses of



media and communication technologies by different social actors in Malaysia. Unlike other studies of the media in Malaysia which concentrate on ""political economy"" or ""freedom of the media"" approaches, this book focuses on the ways in which different media forms have constituted cultural practices and power relations amongst particular audiences and publics. It also examines the ways in which technologies of varying scales and range have been appropriated for various subaltern purposes and counter-hegemonic agendas.