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Myanmar Media in Transition : Legacies, Challenges and Change / ed. by Lisa Brooten, Jane Madlyn McElhone, Gayathry Venkiteswaran.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Singapore : ISEAS Publishing, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (407 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789814843096
  • 9789814843409
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.2309591 23
LOC classification:
  • P92.B93 M93 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors and Editors -- Burma or Myanmar? A Note on Terminology -- 1. Introduction: Myanmar Media Historically and the Challenges of Transition -- Part I. Structural Constraints and Opportunities -- 2. Legal Changes for Media and Expression: New Reforms, Old Controls -- 3. Whispered Support: Two Decades of International Aid for Independent Journalism and Free Expression -- 4. The Changing Face of Print Media: An Interview with News Veteran Thiha Saw -- 5. Privacy Risks in Myanmar's Emerging ICT Sector -- Part II. Journalism in Transition -- 6. Silencing a Snakehead Fish: A Case Study in Local Media, Rural-Based Activism, and Defamation Litigation in Southern Myanmar -- 7. Precarity and Risk in Myanmar's Media: A Longitudinal Analysis of Natural Disaster Coverage by The Irrawaddy -- 8. Educating a New Generation of Watchdogs: Interview with Ye Naing Moe, Director of the Yangon and Mandalay Journalism Schools -- 9. The Metamorphosis of Media in Myanmar's Ethnic States -- 10. Covering Rakhine: Journalism, Conflict and Identity -- 11. Media in Myanmar: Laws, Military and the Public -- 12. Cracking the Glass Ceiling in Myanmar Media -- 13. Media and the 2015 General Elections -- Part III. Creative Expression -- 14. Myanmar's Pop Music Industry in Transition -- 15. New Video Generation: The Myanmar Motion Picture Industry in 2017 -- 16. Films for Dignity -- 17. A "Fierce" Fear: Literature and Loathing after the Junta -- Part IV. Society and Media -- 18. The Tea Shop Meets the 8 O'clock News: Facebook, Convergence and Online Public Spaces -- 19. From Blogging to Digital Rights: Telecommunications Reform in Myanmar -- 20. Counter-Narratives: Myanmar's Digital Media Activists -- Epilogue: Media Studies in Myanmar - Where Do We Go from Here? -- Index
Summary: Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change is the first volume to overview the country's contemporary media landscape, providing a critical assessment of the sector during the complex and controversial political transition. Moving beyond the focus on journalism and freedom of the press that characterizes many media-focused volumes, Myanmar Media in Transition also explores developments in fiction, filmmaking, social movement media and social media. Documenting changes from both academic and practitioner perspectives, the twenty-one chapters reinforce the volume's theoretical arguments by providing on-the-ground, factual and experiential data intended to open useful dialogue between key stakeholders in the media, government and civil society sectors. Providing an overview of media studies in the country, Myanmar Media in Transition addresses current challenges, such as the use of social media in spreading hate speech and the shifting boundaries of free expression, by placing them within Myanmar's broader historic social, political and economic context.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors and Editors -- Burma or Myanmar? A Note on Terminology -- 1. Introduction: Myanmar Media Historically and the Challenges of Transition -- Part I. Structural Constraints and Opportunities -- 2. Legal Changes for Media and Expression: New Reforms, Old Controls -- 3. Whispered Support: Two Decades of International Aid for Independent Journalism and Free Expression -- 4. The Changing Face of Print Media: An Interview with News Veteran Thiha Saw -- 5. Privacy Risks in Myanmar's Emerging ICT Sector -- Part II. Journalism in Transition -- 6. Silencing a Snakehead Fish: A Case Study in Local Media, Rural-Based Activism, and Defamation Litigation in Southern Myanmar -- 7. Precarity and Risk in Myanmar's Media: A Longitudinal Analysis of Natural Disaster Coverage by The Irrawaddy -- 8. Educating a New Generation of Watchdogs: Interview with Ye Naing Moe, Director of the Yangon and Mandalay Journalism Schools -- 9. The Metamorphosis of Media in Myanmar's Ethnic States -- 10. Covering Rakhine: Journalism, Conflict and Identity -- 11. Media in Myanmar: Laws, Military and the Public -- 12. Cracking the Glass Ceiling in Myanmar Media -- 13. Media and the 2015 General Elections -- Part III. Creative Expression -- 14. Myanmar's Pop Music Industry in Transition -- 15. New Video Generation: The Myanmar Motion Picture Industry in 2017 -- 16. Films for Dignity -- 17. A "Fierce" Fear: Literature and Loathing after the Junta -- Part IV. Society and Media -- 18. The Tea Shop Meets the 8 O'clock News: Facebook, Convergence and Online Public Spaces -- 19. From Blogging to Digital Rights: Telecommunications Reform in Myanmar -- 20. Counter-Narratives: Myanmar's Digital Media Activists -- Epilogue: Media Studies in Myanmar - Where Do We Go from Here? -- Index

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Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change is the first volume to overview the country's contemporary media landscape, providing a critical assessment of the sector during the complex and controversial political transition. Moving beyond the focus on journalism and freedom of the press that characterizes many media-focused volumes, Myanmar Media in Transition also explores developments in fiction, filmmaking, social movement media and social media. Documenting changes from both academic and practitioner perspectives, the twenty-one chapters reinforce the volume's theoretical arguments by providing on-the-ground, factual and experiential data intended to open useful dialogue between key stakeholders in the media, government and civil society sectors. Providing an overview of media studies in the country, Myanmar Media in Transition addresses current challenges, such as the use of social media in spreading hate speech and the shifting boundaries of free expression, by placing them within Myanmar's broader historic social, political and economic context.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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