Beschreibung:
This book explores the inherent contradiction present in most facets of Singaporean media, cultural and political discourses, identifying the key regulatory strategies and technologies that the ruling People Action Party employs to regulate Singapore media and culture.
1. The Politics of Culture: A Mediated Introduction 2. Cultural Governmentality and Citizenship 3. Administering Culture: Cultural Policy, Regulation and the Creative Industries 4. Gestural Politics: A 'New' Civil Society 5. The Internet, Surveillance and Technological Auto-Regulation 6. Media Governmentality and Political Communication 7. Conclusion: Always 'New': Governing Contradictions with Consistencies