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What is Critical Political Economy of the Media

Chapter 8
Handbook of Research on the Political Economy of Communications and Media
A research perspective developed in the communication and media studies, which focuses on the following three-fold elements, which are: a) the nature of the relationship between media and communication systems; b) consequences of such relationship on social structure of society; and c) the effects of diverse types of the media ownership and support mechanisms and government policies related with the media on the media behaviour and content. It assumes that the media have been exploited by the dominant elites as ‘unconscious forces’ to achieve their goals and accomplish their political and business interests.
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What Determine Indonesian Commercial News TV Channels' Political News Production and Publication in the Post-Soeharto Regime: A Critical Political Economy Perspective of the Media
Nyarwi Ahmad (University of Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3270-6.ch008
Abstract
This work focuses on structural-systemic factors that have been determining Indonesian commercial news TV Channels' political news production and publication in the Post-Soeharto Regime. A critical political economy perspective of the media and the media behaviours, performance, and content production models were adopted. Articles published in qualified journals, theses and reports released by Indonesian mainstream media related with such issue and in-depth interview derived from five senior editors/journalists of Indonesian commercial news TV channels and interview data collected from Indonesian journalists through online survey were extracted using the qualitative content and thematic analyses. The findings indicate that the following factors systematically determined political news production and publications organized by such private news TV channels. These factors include cartelised political system, party cartelisation, oligarchic media ownership, Pancasila (the Five Principles) as a unitary Indonesian state and government ideology, types and personal characters of the news sources, and religious violence groups.
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