Media and politics in Pacific Asia / / Duncan McCargo

• Autore: McCargo Duncan
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (196 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.23/091823
• Soggetto topico: Mass media - Political aspects - Pacific Area
• Soggetto geografico: Pacific Area Politics and government
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: 89.56; 05.30
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-176) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: politics and media in Pacific Asia -- Media in times of crisis: media and democratic transitions in Southeast Asia -- Media in peacetime? Press and television in Japan -- Media as an agent of stability? Suharto's Indonesia -- Media in a time of transition: Hong Kong -- International media and domestic politics: tales from Thailand.
• Sommario/riassunto: Media and Politics in Pacific Asia is the first book to provide a detailed account of the political influences exerted by both domestic and international media in Pacific Asia. Duncan McCargo argues that the media are political actors and institutions in their own right, and that as such they can play a variety of political roles, some of which support processes of demographic transition and consolidation, and some which do just the opposite.Drawing on first-hand research in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan and Thailand - and employing comparative examples that include Burma, Mal
• Titolo autorizzato: Media and politics in Pacific Asia
• ISBN: 0-415-23375-5; 1-134-56865-7; 1-280-04945-6; 0-203-40254-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450907003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Politics in Asia series.