Beyond Orientalist Discourses: Media and Democracy in Asia
Beyond Orientalist Discourses: Media and Democracy in Asia
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超越东方主义话语：亚洲的媒体与民主
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2001
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Chin
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本文的编辑介绍为后面的文章提供了一个框架。委员会关切地批判性地探讨了目前讨论亚洲媒体与民主问题的一些方式。亚洲经验的绝对多样性得到了强调，并试图解释过去和现在的民主化在一些亚洲国家的一般类别方面的缺点被发现是想要的。例如，使用儒家思想的影响力来解释重要的社会现象，被证明是不敏感的思想的复杂性，集中在一个单一的术语“儒家思想”和证据都在媒体行为的差异观察到的社会无疑受到它的影响，并具有不同背景的国家之间的相似性。引言部分继续探讨了国家、媒体、市场、全球化和民主之间的关系，这些问题仍有待于详细探讨。本文指出，这些范畴中没有一个是不言自明的，同一现象在不同的社会环境中可能有不同的含义。
Abstract This editorial introduction provides a framework for the later articles. It is concerned to address critically a number of the ways in which the issue of media and democracy in Asia is currently discussed. The sheer variety of the experience of Asia is emphasised, and explanations that seek to account for the past and present shortcomings of democratisation in some Asian countries in terms of general categories are found to be wanting. For example, the use of idea of the influence Confucianism to explain important social phenomena is shown to be insensitive the complexity of the ideas that are lumped together under the single term “Confucianism” and to the evidence both of differences in media behaviour observable in societies undoubtedly influenced by it and to similarities across countries with different backgrounds. The introduction goes on to consider some of the problems about the relationship between state, media, market, globalization and democracy that remain to be explored in detail. It is pointed out that none of these categories is self-evident, and that one and the same phenomenon can have a different meaning in different social circumstances.