Doctoral Dissertation: Manufacturing Models for the Middle Class: Television and Influence in Indonesia

这个项目调查了印度尼西亚这个经历了快速经济增长的发展中国家的新中产阶级的形成。这项研究聚焦于创造了美国有影响力的大众媒体的社会精英，考察了私营电视制片人(迎合新的社会品味)是如何创造和操纵一种前所未有的新中产阶级文化的。它将特别关注各种社会力量的媒体主导，包括民族主义、消费主义和宗教在该文化中的主导地位。研究方法包括参与观察、对电视制作系统和七个热门电视节目进行分析，以及收集人口统计数据。这个项目将有助于我们理解在一个种族和语言多样化的现代国家中，阶级结构以及民族文化和民族认同的发展。

Abstract 0079941This project investigates the formation of a new middle class in the Indonesia, a developing country that has experienced rapid economic growth. Focusing on the societal elites who create the nation's influential mass media, this research examines how private television producers (appealing to new social tastes) are creating and manipulating a new middle class culture where none had previously existed. It will specifically look at the media predominance of various societal forces including nationalism, consumerism, and religion in that culture. Methods include participant observation, analysis of TV production systems and seven popular TV programs, and the collection of demographic data. This project will contribute to our understanding of the development of class structures, as well as a national culture and national identity, in an ethnically and linguistically diverse modern state.