Politics of Southeast Asia's New Media

The past decade has seen a major structural shift in broadcasting in Southeast Asia with the development of digital satellite and cable broadcasting. This shift has impacted upon some of the most information-sensitive governments in the world: Singapore Malaysia and until recently Indonesia. Atkins traces this development in five countries showing that the challenge to authoritarian regimes anticipated by modern theorists as a result of the globalization of news and information is not materializing. Instead a new commercial elite has arisen Southeast Asia's own mini-moguls who act as gatekeepers for state interests as partners to global media companies.