The public sphere and media politics in Malaysia / Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mohd. Azizuddin Mohd. Sani.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Malaysia.

Mass media.

Mass media--Political aspects--Malaysia.

Mass media--Social aspects--Malaysia.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, c2009.

Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book analyses Malaysian media from the Jurgen Habermas' perspectives of "the public sphere" especially from the aspects of bourgeois public sphere, mass press, the commercialisation of the press and refeudalisation. Malaysia has also faced all of those aspects. However, the highlight of this book is the process called defeudalisation. The 2008 General Election has shown that a new public sphere of cyberspace or the Internet and the mobile phone was accessed and utilised significantly and...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF CHARTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; ABBREVIATIONS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.

ISBN:

1-282-18984-0

9786612189845

1-4438-0386-3

OCLC:

741344298