Journalism and conflict in Indonesia : from reporting violence to promoting peace / Steve Sharp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharp, Steve, author.

Series:

Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism--Social aspects--Indonesia.

Journalism.

Violence--Press coverage--Indonesia.

Violence.

Social conflict--Press coverage--Indonesia.

Social conflict.

Conflict management--Press coverage--Indonesia.

Conflict management.

Peace-building--Press coverage--Indonesia.

Peace-building.

Mass media and peace--Indonesia.

Mass media and peace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book examines, through the case study of Indonesia over recent decades, how the reporting of violence can drive the escalation of violence, and how journalists can alter their reporting practices in order to have the opposite effect and promote peace"--Supplied by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Journalism and Conflict in Indonesia: From reporting violence to promoting peace; Copyright; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Journalism and violence; Methodological issues; The chapters; From primordialism to peace journalism; 2 Communication and culture; Communication-as-culture; Globalism and media development; Communicating conflict; 3 Media freedom and journalistic culture in post-New Order Indonesia; The legacy of the Pancasila press in Indonesia; Democratic ideology among journalists in Indonesia; Culture and freedom in the newsroom

4 Violence, culture and national disintegration in IndonesiaPolitical violence and the discourse of national disintegration; War and the construction of ethnic identities; Centre-periphery cultural politics in Indonesia, 1998 - 2000; 5 Culture wars in Indonesia: Maluku; The Maluku Wars' geometry of violence; Faith and politics in the Maluku firestorm; Localising global discourses on 'holy war'; 6 Framing religious conflict: Primordialism writ large; The unnaming of combatants; Security personnel and their media masks; National news media and paramilitary mobilisation

7 War and peace journalismWar, identity, economy; The underground press surfaces; Pancasila press goes 'communal'; Transitional media ethics; Reviving development communication; Summary of conclusions; Appendix: English translations of Fauzan's 'kidnapping' stories; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-21344-9

0-203-09539-1

1-283-87178-5

1-136-21345-7

9780203095393

OCLC:

822025289