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  • The Politics of Goods: A Case Study of Consumer Nationalism and Media Discourse in Contemporary China

    • Authors: Jian Wang (2006)

  • This study advances the concept of consumer nationalism in the international marketplace. It examines the complex role of the media in its formation and expressive practices through a case study of an incident involving Toshiba Corporation in China. The concept rests upon three key arguments of self-definition through consumption, globalization, and symbolic national unification. In their encounter with the global brand Toshiba, the Chinese media and consumers re-discovered and evoked a strong nationalistic sentiment underlined by Japan’s past aggression and atrocities in China. The media discourse of national pride and dignity in the case study represents the complex confluence of China’s continuing ambivalence towards Japan, sponsor activities by key advocacy groups, and the cha...
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  • What Matters and Changes in Condom Use? Public Perceptions and Practices Before and After the 2004 HIV/AIDS Campaign in Taiwan

    • Authors: Mei-Ling Hsu (2006)

  • With two waves of nationwide survey data collected before and after the 2004 World AIDS Day Campaign in Taiwan, this study aims to analyze factors contributing to public perceptions, beliefs, and behavioral decisions of condom use in relation to HIV/AIDS prevention in Taiwan. Gender differences in perceived functions and barriers of condom use are explored. Changes made due possibly to the overall campaign efforts are also examined. Implications of the findings for future research and campaign practices as well as limitations of the study are discussed to conclude the study.
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  • Dangdut Soul: Who are ‘the People’ in Indonesian Popular Music?

    • Authors: Andrew N. Weintraub (2006)

  • This essay is an ideological critique of popular print media about dangdut, a genre of Indonesian popular music. The audience for dangdut has been imagined, represented, and mobilized in various ways to support the ideological interests of commercial, government, and critical institutions. In popular print publications, representations of dangdut as the music of ‘the people’ (rakyat)*the majority of society*have been produced with great frequency and in a variety of popular print media. I describe the ways in which popular print media ‘speaks for’ people, and the relations of power that define those discourses. Using an historical approach, I construct an interpretation of these representational practices, taking into account shifts in the social meaning and function of dangdut’s au...
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  • Entertaining Illusions: How Indonesian Élites Imagine Reality TV Affects the Masses

    • Authors: Mark Hobart (2006)

  • Among the new genres of Indonesian television broadcasting, real-life crime and supernatural reality TV are of particular interest, because they were exceptionally popular for a time and aroused grave concern among intellectuals and the political e´lite. A close examination of both kinds of programming, however, suggests that their narrative structure is largely conservative and about reaffirming the social order against threat. In which case, why are e´lites so worried about such programmes? An analysis of broadsheet commentary reveals some remarkable preconceptions among the e´lite about the masses in Indonesia. Finally, a consideration of how Indonesians understand and engage with theatre*and so potentially television*indicates previously unconsidered radical possibilities.
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  • Afterword

    • Authors: Richard Fox (2006)

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