TY - JOUR
T1 - Television news in Singapore
T2 - mediating conflict and consent
AU - Cottle, Simon
AU - Rai, Mugdha
N1 - Funding Information:
1 We would like to acknowledge the Australian Research Council for funding the research project ‘Television Journalism and Deliberative Democracy: A Comparative International Study of Communicative Architecture and Democratic Deepening’ (DP0449505) that forms the basis of this article. We would like to thank Ivan Kwek of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, for his help in collecting news samples, preparing background information and conducting interviews, as well as Andrea Duckworth for helping with the preparation of some of the data for this article.
Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2008/8/1
Y1 - 2008/8/1
N2 - Singapore's television media, notwithstanding the island's economic successes, is widely considered to be tightly controlled and regulated by the government. The role of Singapore's television news in enabling or curtailing democratic processes, however, remains largely unnoticed and under-theorised. This article reports on recent research which secures added empirical purchase on Singapore's TV journalism today and does so by identifying, mapping and pursuing into the production domain the repertoire of communicative frames that differentially characterise contemporary TV news in Singapore. Our findings document that there is considerably more complexity in the ecology and communicative frames of TV news than has so far been acknowledged or explored and these complexities have direct bearing on debates about the mediation of conflict and consent in Singapore's brand of 'democracy'.
AB - Singapore's television media, notwithstanding the island's economic successes, is widely considered to be tightly controlled and regulated by the government. The role of Singapore's television news in enabling or curtailing democratic processes, however, remains largely unnoticed and under-theorised. This article reports on recent research which secures added empirical purchase on Singapore's TV journalism today and does so by identifying, mapping and pursuing into the production domain the repertoire of communicative frames that differentially characterise contemporary TV news in Singapore. Our findings document that there is considerably more complexity in the ecology and communicative frames of TV news than has so far been acknowledged or explored and these complexities have direct bearing on debates about the mediation of conflict and consent in Singapore's brand of 'democracy'.
KW - Communicative architecture
KW - Deliberative democracy
KW - Display
KW - Singapore
KW - Television news
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U2 - 10.1163/156853108X327137
DO - 10.1163/156853108X327137
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:51049101636
SN - 1568-4849
VL - 36
SP - 638
EP - 658
JO - Asian Journal of Social Science
JF - Asian Journal of Social Science
IS - 3
ER -