Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia

ISBN-13: 9781138584839 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 402 str.

Tina Burrett; Jeffrey Kingston

Opis

This book analyses the constraints on press freedom and the ways in which independent reporting and reporters are at risk in contemporary Asia to provide a barometer of democratic development in the region.

Spis treści

1 Introduction; 2 Theorising Media Freedom in Asia; Part 1 - East Asia; 3 Social Media with Chinese Characteristics: Implications for Press Freedom; 4 Borrowing, Buying and Building Boats: How China Exerts its Influence Over the Press in Asia; 5 Press Freedom in China Under Xi Jinping; 6 Japan’s Activist News Media: How and Why Reporters and News Organizations Became a Positive Force in Confronting a Negative Past; 7 Fortress Okinawa: Japan’s Media and the US Military Footprint; 8 Press Freedom in South Korea; 9 External Threat and Internal Defense: Freedom of the Press in Taiwan 2008-2018; Part 2 - South East Asia; 10 The Indonesian Press: Between the State, Market, Politics and Society; 11 Press Freedom in Malaysia: An Awakening for the Media?; 12 Media Freedom in Myanmar: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back; 13 Press Repression in Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi, the Reuters Reporters and the Rohingya; 14 Press Freedom in the Philippines; 15 Press Freedom Chained in Thailand; 16 Vietnamese Media Going Social: Connectivism, Collectivism, and Conservatism; Part 3 - South Asia; 17 Press freedom in Bangladesh: How to Kill the Fourth Estate in 48 Years or Less; 18 Killing Press Freedom in India, Siddhartha Deb; 19 Muzzling the Press: Military Control and Journalism in Jammu and Kashmir; 20 Challenges of Press Freedom in Nepal; 21 Pakistan’s Media under Siege; 22 Free and Fair Media: A Distant Dream for Sri Lanka; Part 4 - Internet Freedom; 23 The Polemics of Internet Freedom in Asia: Reality, Perception and Attitudes