The Media and Political Change in Southeast Asia: Karaoke Culture and the Evolution of Personality Politics

摘要

Political communication combines communication study and politics and this book is indeed a contribution to this ever developing area. Media control by the state is an important subject and not many books have been written in the context of Asia. Hence this book is worth being a textbook in universities. In the context of democratization of communication and the role of the media in the electoral ballot today, this book provides a ringside view of what happens in Southeast Asia.