Media and Power in Southeast Asia

Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Media and Power in Southeast Asia
Contents
1 Southeast Asia’s Contested Media Space
1.1 Media Freedom, Independence, Pluralism, and Safety
1.2 Media Organisations
1.3 Norms and Values
1.4 Parsing the Media-and-Democracy Question
2 Media and Democratic Transitions
2.1 Media and Democracy
2.2 Media’s Role in Southeast Asian Transitions
2.3 Legal Reforms
2.4 Media Adaptations
2.4.1 Role of Civil Society
3 Authoritarian Resilience and Media
3.1 Singapore’s Media System
3.2 Calibrated Coercion
3.3 Differential Censorship
3.4 Beyond Singapore
3.5 Rethinking Media and Power
4 Big Business and Media
4.1 Political Economy of Media
4.2 Oligarchs, Cronies, and State Patrons in Southeast Asia
4.2.1 Competition and Capture in Indonesia and Philippines
4.2.2 Backsliding in Thailand and Cambodia
4.2.3 Overcoming Cronyism in Malaysia and Myanmar
4.3 Disruptions and Continuities
5 Media and Intolerance
5.1 Anti-Muslim Hate in Myanmar
5.2 Hard-Line Muslim Intolerance in Indonesia
5.3 Dark Side of People Power
6 Digital Media Disruptions
6.1 Vietnam’s Selective Embrace of the Internet
6.2 Malaysia’s Brittle No Censorship Guarantee
6.3 The Future of Media and Politics in Southeast Asia
Bibliography
Acknowledgements