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Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change is the first volume to overview the country's contemporary media landscape, providing a critical assessment of the sector during the complex and controversial political transition. Moving beyond the focus on journalism and freedom of the press that characterizes many media-focused volumes, Myanmar Media in Transition also explores developments in fiction, filmmaking, social movement media and social media. Documenting changes from both academic and practitioner perspectives, the twenty-one chapters reinforce the volume's theoretical arguments by providing on-the-ground, factual and experiential data intended to open useful dialogue between key stakeholders in the media, government and civil society sectors. Providing an overview of media studies in the country, Myanmar Media in Transition addresses current challenges, such as the use of social media in spreading hate speech and the shifting boundaries of free expression, by placing them within Myanmar's broader historic social, political and economic context.
About the author
Lisa Brooten is Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, a Fulbright scholar and a member of the roster of Fulbright specialists for Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines.
Jane Madlyn McElhone is a consultant with extensive experience supporting and building the capacity of media outlets and journalists in closed and transitional societies. She has collaborated on media projects around the world, including working in Myanmar, Afghanistan and Timor-Leste.
Gayathry Venkiteswaran was formerly the Executive Director of the Bangkok-based Southeast Asian Press Alliance (2010–15). She is now Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, where she is also completing her doctorate.
