Routledge media, culture and social change in Asia ;
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-197) and index.
1. Asian journalism: News, development and the tides of liberalization and technology / Angela Romano -- 2. Going online: Journalism and civil society in Singapore / Terence Lee -- 3. Changing connections: The news media, the government and the people in China's SARS epidemic -- 4. International aid and the news sector in Cambodia / Judith Clarke -- 5. Media plurality or democratic deficit? Private TV and the public sphere in India / Daya Kishan Thussu -- 6. The surrogate democracy function of the media: Citizens' and journalists' evaluations of media performance in Hong Kong / Joseph M. Chan and Clement Y.K. So -- 7. Democracy, the press and civil society in Hong Kong / Paul S.N. Lee -- 8. Media change through bounded innovations: Journalism in China's media reforms / Zhongdang Pan -- 9. Between dictatorship and democracy: State-affiliated news media in Indonesia / Angela Romano and Blythe Seinor -- 10. Democratization and changing state-media relations in South Korea / Ki-Sung Kwak -- 11. Cable television and democratization in Taiwan and South Korea / Rodney Tiffen and Ki-Sung Kwak -- 12. Protesting the 1994 Okinawa rape incident: Women, democracy and television news in Japan / Elizabeth Naoko Maclachlan -- 13. The 'Straight' Times: News media and sexual citizenship / Laurence Wai-Teng Leong.
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The contributors address key issues of freedom, democracy, citizenship, openness and journalism in contemporary Asia, looking especially at China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines and India.