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[Commlist] New Book on an ethnography of authoritarian media production

Fri Nov 11 22:55:43 GMT 2022




Siao Yuong (Rong) Fong is pleased to share the publication of my first book Performing Fear in Television Production: Practices of an Illiberal Democracy (Amsterdam University Press, 2022). It is based on an immersive ethnography of television production in Singapore, and I use it to speak towards debates about authoritarian media making. You can find the table of contents and introduction chapter here <https://www.academia.edu/88822821/Performing_Fear_in_Television_Production_Practices_of_an_illiberal_democracy_TOC_and_Intro>:

Blurb:

Performing Fear in Television Production
Practices of an Illiberal Democracy
What goes into the ideological sustenance of an illiberal capitalist democracy? While much of the critical discussion of the media in authoritarian contexts focus on state power, the emphasis on strong states tend to perpetuate misnomers about the media as mere tools of the state and sustain myths about their absolute power.

Turning to the lived everyday of media producers in Singapore, I pose a series of questions that explore what it takes to perpetuate authoritarian resilience in the mass media. How, in what terms and through what means, does a politically stable illiberal Asian state like Singapore formulate its dominant imaginary of social order? What are the television production practices that perform and instantiate the social imaginary, and who are the audiences that are conjured and performed in the process? What are the roles played by imagined audiences in sustaining authoritarian resilience in the media? If, as I will argue in the book, audiences function as the central problematic that engenders anxieties and self-policing amongst producers, can the audience become a surrogate for the authoritarian state?


If it is of interest to your research or teaching, or of interest to your University library, the links are here for hardback <https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463724579/performing-fear-in-television-production> and ebook <https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048555604/performing-fear-in-television-production>.

Hardback: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463724579/performing-fear-in-television-production

Ebook: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048555604/performing-fear-in-television-production


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