Western Media and Indonesian Politics: Gender, Religion and Democracy

How the Western Media report Indonesian Politics

Jo Coghlan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

188 Seiten

2011
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
978-3-639-37029-4 (ISBN)

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This framing study evaluates the arbitrary power of the Western news media in shaping public knowledge about modern Indonesian politics. It evaluates how the Western news media framed Indonesian politics between 1998 and 1999: the nation's tumultuous transition to democracy. It demonstrates that framing is universal and inescapable and to the determinant of the public sphere. This book shows how the Western news media framed Indonesia as in continual crisis, reflecting the Western media's tendency to report the Third world as in perpetual political crisis, bordering at times on anarchy. In examining how episodic, crisis and issue framing shaped social realities about Indonesian politics, and specifically gender, religion, reform aspirations and the transition to democracy, this book demonstrates that news reporting reflected Western assumptions about Indonesia that were stereotypical, oversimplified, decontextualised, reliant on the juxtapositioning of actors in binaries of good and evil, and reflective of mediatised rituals of drama, tragedy and emotion.

Dr Jo Coghlan is a lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the School of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She is a regular writer on national and international media practices particularly in relation to politics and human rights.

Verlagsort	Saarbrucken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 220 mm
Gewicht	266 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Reform • Religion
ISBN-10	3-639-37029-5 / 3639370295
ISBN-13	978-3-639-37029-4 / 9783639370294
Zustand	Neuware