The Media, Cultural Control and Government in Singapore

ISBN-13: 9780415625494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 198 str.

Terence Lee

Opis

This book explores the inherent contradiction present in most facets of Singaporean media, cultural and political discourses, identifying the key regulatory strategies and technologies that the ruling People Action Party employs to regulate Singapore media and culture.

Spis treści

1. The Politics of Culture: A Mediated Introduction  2. Cultural Governmentality and Citizenship  3. Administering Culture: Cultural Policy, Regulation and the Creative Industries  4. Gestural Politics: A ‘New’ Civil Society  5. The Internet, Surveillance and Technological Auto-Regulation  6. Media Governmentality and Political Communication  7. Conclusion: Always ‘New’: Governing Contradictions with Consistencies

O autorze

Terence Lee is Chair of Communication and Media Studies in the School of Media Communication and Culture, and Research Fellow of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University, Australia. He is the joint editor of Political Regimes and the Media in Asia (Routledge, 2008), and publishes widely on various aspects of media, politics, and culture in Singapore.