Exile media, global news flows and democratization
The role of Democratic Voice of Burma in Burma’s 2010 elections
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8111144 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julianne Pidduck (Université de Montréal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 537-553 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0163443712442700 |
| OpenAlex | W2028886739 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article explores the links between transnational media flows and social and political change in authoritarian regimes through a conjunctural study of Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), a Burmese exile media organization. Drawing on observation and interviews conducted at DVB’s Oslo studio during the 2010 elections in Burma as well as documentary research, the article explores how diasporic media may contribute to democratization in a military regime where press freedoms and political expression are severely curtailed. The first section draws on Appadurai’s theory of global flows to scrutinize transnational flows of people, capital, media, ideas and technology contributing to DVB’s operations from 1992 to 2010. The next section engages with theories of media and democracy in order to examine DVB’s innovative satellite television coverage of the 2010 elections. The article concludes with a brief discussion of the ongoing relevance of opposition media based outside of Burma amid liberalization measures undertaken by Thein Sein’s nominally civilian government in 2011
Authoritarianism · Burmese · Democracy · Democratization · Media studies · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Media production in a transnational setting
The critical online diasporic infosphere and counter-public sustenance in an autocratizing society
Journalism in another form
Rethinking digital media use for diasporic political participation
Mixed Signals
From Bad Student to Transnational Activist
Examining Diaspora Journalists’ Digital Networks and Role Perceptions
Bound by Exile
Broadcasting through the (New) Iron Curtain
Echoes of Exiled Journalists from Africa
The truth of what’s happening” How Tibetan exile media develop and maintain journalistic authority
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,92 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |