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Title Embattled media : democracy, governance and reform in Sri Lanka / edited by William Crawley, David Page, Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena
Published New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 396 pages)
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 -- Democracy, Governance and Media Reform: Sri Lanka and the Wider Region -- Part I: The Print Media in Sri Lanka -- 2 -- The Erosion of Media Freedoms: Some Historical Reflections -- 3 -- Minority Media at the Crossroads -- 4 -- Journalism on the Front Line -- 5 -- Women Journalists: Fighting the Good Fight -- Part II: Electronic and New Media -- 6 -- The Political Economy of the Electronic Media -- 7 -- New Media, Old Mindsets -- Part III: Legal and Institutional Reforms -- 8 -- One Step Forward, Many Steps Back: Media Law Reform Examined -- 9 -- Why a Right to Information Act Is an Urgent Necessity -- Part IV: Media Education and Reform -- 10 -- Media Education: A Curricular Review -- 11 -- Media Education and the Tamil Community: A View from the North and the East -- 12 -- Putting the Citizen First: New Approaches to Media Literacy -- Part V: Future Prospects -- 13 -- Challenges Ahead and a Call for Action -- 14 -- Conclusion: Media Reform in a National and Global Context -- Bibliography -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index
Summary Insights into the importance of independent media for democratic governance in the wider South Asian region!
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Mass media -- Sri Lanka
Mass media policy -- Sri Lanka
Civil society -- Sri Lanka
Democracy -- Sri Lanka
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Civil society
Democracy
Mass media
Mass media policy
Sri Lanka
Form Electronic book
Author Crawley, William, 1940-
Page, David, 1944-
Pinto-Jayawardena, Kishali
ISBN 9789351502159
9351502155
9789351504917
9351504913