ABSTRACT
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 globalised, electronic information and entertainment world. Kitley critically compares Western principles of broadcasting, civil society and cultural regulation with alternative 'Asian' practices of regulation and organisation. Over the past forty years Asian states have used television as a normative cultural force in nation building, but more recently many states have deregulated their television sectors and introduced national commercial and international satellite services. As Asian states wrestle with a perceived loss of cultural control and identity through deregulation, this book considers their viewpoints and the question of whether the television public sphere offers space for the representation of popular sovereignty, and transversal concerns about human rights, press freedom, gender, environmental and world trade issues.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Overview
chapter |32 pages
Introduction
part |2 pages
Part II Regulation and transversal civil society in Southeast Asia
chapter 2|2 pages
Out in front: government regulation of television in Malaysia
chapter 3|10 pages
Civil society in charge?
chapter 4|16 pages
Civic or civil contingencies?: regulating television and society in
part |2 pages
Part III Regulation and transversal civil society in Northeast Asia
chapter 8|8 pages
Television in the formation of civil society: the role of a non- controversial public space in Hong Kong
chapter 9|9 pages
Sliding back the screens
chapter 10|17 pages
Civil society as the fifth estate
part |2 pages
PART IV Beyond the nation: satellite television