Journalism and Democracy in Asia (Routledge Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia)

✍ Scribed by Michae Bromley

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 222
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Journalism and Democracy in Asia addresses key issues of freedom, democracy, citizenship, openness and journalism in contemporary Asia, looking especially at China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines and India. The authors take varying approaches to questions of democracy, whilst also considering journalism in print, radio and new media, in relation to such questions as the role of social, political and economic liberalization in bringing about a blooming of the media, the relationship between the media and the development of democracy and civil society, and how journalism copes under authoritarian rule. With contributions from highly regarded experts in the region examining a broad range of issues from across Asia, this book will be of high interest to students and scholars in political communications, journalism and mass communication and Asian studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 16
1 Asian journalism......Page 18
2 Going online......Page 32
3 Changing connections......Page 45
4 International aid and the news sector in Cambodia......Page 58
5 Media plurality or democratic deficit?......Page 71
6 The surrogate democracy function of the media......Page 83
7 Democracy, the press and civil society in Hong Kong......Page 98
8 Media change through bounded innovations......Page 113
9 Between dictatorship and democracy......Page 125
10 Democratization and changing state–media relations in South Korea......Page 140
11 Cable television and democratization in Taiwan and South Korea......Page 152
12 Protesting the 1994 Okinawa rape incident......Page 165
13 The ‘Straight’ Times......Page 176
Bibliography......Page 189
Index......Page 215