Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change
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Singapore: ISEAS (2019), xix, 407 pp.
Contains index
ISBN 978-981-4843-09-6
Signature commbox: 310:10-General 2019
"Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change is the first volume to overview the country’s contemporary media landscape, providing a critical assessment of the sector during the complex and controversial political transition. Moving beyond the focus on journalism and freedom of the press that characterizes many media-focused volumes, Myanmar Media in Transition also explores developments in fiction, filmmaking, social movement media and social media. Documenting changes from both academic and practitioner perspectives, the twenty-one chapters reinforce the volume’s theoretical arguments by providing on-the-ground, factual and experiential data intended to open useful dialogue between key stakeholders in the media, government and civil society sectors. Providing an overview of media studies in the country, Myanmar Media in Transition addresses current challenges, such as the use of social media in spreading hate speech and the shifting boundaries of free expression, by placing them within Myanmar’s broader historic social, political and economic context." (Publisher description)
1 Introduction: Myanmar Media Historically and the Challenges of Transition / Lisa Brooten, Jane Madlyn McElhone and Gayathry Venkiteswaran
I. STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
2 Legal Changes for Media and Expression: New Reforms, Old Controls / Gayathry Venkiteswaran, Yin Yadanar Thein and Myint Kyaw
3 Whispered Support: Two Decades of International Aid for Independent Journalism and Free Expression / Jane Madlyn McElhone and Lisa Brooten
4 The Changing Face of Print Media: An Interview with News Veteran Thiha Saw / Interviewed by Jane Madlyn McElhone and Gayathry Venkiteswaran
5 Privacy Risks in Myanmar's Emerging ICT Sector / Kamran Emad and Erin McAuliffe
II. JOURNALISM IN TRANSITION
6 Silencing a Snakehead Fish: A Case Study in Local Media, Rural-Based Activism, and Defamation Litigation in Southern Myanmar / Jennifer Leehey
7 Precarity and Risk in Myanmar's Media: A Longitudinal Analysis of Natural Disaster Coverage by The Irrawaddy / Susan Banki and Ja Seng Ing
8 Educating a New Generation of Watchdogs: Interview with Ye Naing Moe, Director of the Yangon and Mandalay Journalism Schools / Interviewed by Nai Nai and Jane Madlyn McElhone
9 The Metamorphosis of Media in Myanmar's Ethnic States / Jane Madlyn McElhone
10 Covering Rakhine: Journalism, Conflict and Identity / Eaint Thiri Thu
11 Media in Myanmar: Laws, Military and the Public / Lawi Weng
12 Cracking The Glass Ceiling in Myanmar Media / Thin Lei Win
13 Media and the 2015 General Elections / Carine Jaquet
III. CREATIVE EXPRESSION
14 Myanmar's Pop Music Industry in Transition / Heather MacLachlan
15 New Video Generation: The Myanmar Motion Picture Industry in 2017 / Jane M. Ferguson
16 Films for Dignity / Mon Mon Myat
17 A "Fierce" Fear: Literature and Loathing after the Junta / Ma Thida
IV. SOCIETY AND MEDIA
18 The Tea Shop Meets the 8 O'clock News: Facebook, Convergence and Online Public Spaces / Yan Naung Oak and Lisa Brooten
19 From Blogging to Digital Rights: Telecommunications Reform in Myanmar / Htaike Htaike Aung and Wai Myo Htut
20 Counter-Narratives: Myanmar's Digital Media Activists / Sarah Oh
Epilogue: Media Studies in Myanmar - Where Do We Go from Here? / Lisa Brooten, Jane Madlyn McElhone and Gayathry Venkiteswaran
I. STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
2 Legal Changes for Media and Expression: New Reforms, Old Controls / Gayathry Venkiteswaran, Yin Yadanar Thein and Myint Kyaw
3 Whispered Support: Two Decades of International Aid for Independent Journalism and Free Expression / Jane Madlyn McElhone and Lisa Brooten
4 The Changing Face of Print Media: An Interview with News Veteran Thiha Saw / Interviewed by Jane Madlyn McElhone and Gayathry Venkiteswaran
5 Privacy Risks in Myanmar's Emerging ICT Sector / Kamran Emad and Erin McAuliffe
II. JOURNALISM IN TRANSITION
6 Silencing a Snakehead Fish: A Case Study in Local Media, Rural-Based Activism, and Defamation Litigation in Southern Myanmar / Jennifer Leehey
7 Precarity and Risk in Myanmar's Media: A Longitudinal Analysis of Natural Disaster Coverage by The Irrawaddy / Susan Banki and Ja Seng Ing
8 Educating a New Generation of Watchdogs: Interview with Ye Naing Moe, Director of the Yangon and Mandalay Journalism Schools / Interviewed by Nai Nai and Jane Madlyn McElhone
9 The Metamorphosis of Media in Myanmar's Ethnic States / Jane Madlyn McElhone
10 Covering Rakhine: Journalism, Conflict and Identity / Eaint Thiri Thu
11 Media in Myanmar: Laws, Military and the Public / Lawi Weng
12 Cracking The Glass Ceiling in Myanmar Media / Thin Lei Win
13 Media and the 2015 General Elections / Carine Jaquet
III. CREATIVE EXPRESSION
14 Myanmar's Pop Music Industry in Transition / Heather MacLachlan
15 New Video Generation: The Myanmar Motion Picture Industry in 2017 / Jane M. Ferguson
16 Films for Dignity / Mon Mon Myat
17 A "Fierce" Fear: Literature and Loathing after the Junta / Ma Thida
IV. SOCIETY AND MEDIA
18 The Tea Shop Meets the 8 O'clock News: Facebook, Convergence and Online Public Spaces / Yan Naung Oak and Lisa Brooten
19 From Blogging to Digital Rights: Telecommunications Reform in Myanmar / Htaike Htaike Aung and Wai Myo Htut
20 Counter-Narratives: Myanmar's Digital Media Activists / Sarah Oh
Epilogue: Media Studies in Myanmar - Where Do We Go from Here? / Lisa Brooten, Jane Madlyn McElhone and Gayathry Venkiteswaran
