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Media Power in Hong Kong Hyper-Marketized Media and Cultural Resistance
By Charles Chi-wai Cheung
Copyright 2016
236 Pages
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Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
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Studies of Hong Kong media primarily examine whether China will crush Hong Kong’s media freedom. This book however traces the root problem of Hong Kong media back to the colonial era, demonstrating that before the resumption of Chinese sovereignty there already existed a uniquely Hong Kong brand of hyper-marketized and oligopolistic media system. The system, encouraged by the British colonial... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Theoretical reformulation of media power 3. Hong Kong brand of capitalist media and negotiated representational struggles 4. News polysemy I: range of discourses 5. News polysemy II: treatment of discourses 6. Audience negotiation 7. Conclusion
Biography
Charles Chi-wai Cheung is an Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
"Any researcher or student interested in media power should read this book. It provides an original and convincing understanding of such power, based on an extraordinary case study of media stigmatisation of young people in Hong Kong."
Professor David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds, UK.
