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T1 - Censorship as Performance – The case of a Singapore Reality TV Show
AU - Fong, Siao Yuong
PY - 2015/9/9
Y1 - 2015/9/9
N2 - Singapore is known for its tight censorship. Index on Censorship named Singapore ‘censorship city’ in 2009 (Index on Censorship, 2009); and in 2014, Singapore fell to its record lowest position of 150th out of 180 in the world press freedom index (Reporters Without Borders, 2014). Many scholars have written about the widespread censorship in the nation state and its media industry (Kuo and Chen, 1983; Tan and Soh, 1994). Singaporean media scholar Lee (2007: 62) argued that media producers will never be able to alleviate their fears and self-censorship unless the authorities ‘rescind the OB [out-of-bound] markers and other open-ended laws’. George’s (2005: 11) theory of ‘calibrated coercion’ also postulated that the Singaporean state’s use of overt repression is calibrated ‘for maximum effectiveness at minimum cost’.
AB - Singapore is known for its tight censorship. Index on Censorship named Singapore ‘censorship city’ in 2009 (Index on Censorship, 2009); and in 2014, Singapore fell to its record lowest position of 150th out of 180 in the world press freedom index (Reporters Without Borders, 2014). Many scholars have written about the widespread censorship in the nation state and its media industry (Kuo and Chen, 1983; Tan and Soh, 1994). Singaporean media scholar Lee (2007: 62) argued that media producers will never be able to alleviate their fears and self-censorship unless the authorities ‘rescind the OB [out-of-bound] markers and other open-ended laws’. George’s (2005: 11) theory of ‘calibrated coercion’ also postulated that the Singaporean state’s use of overt repression is calibrated ‘for maximum effectiveness at minimum cost’.
KW - Disciplininary Boundary
KW - Symbolic Action
KW - Reality Television
KW - PublicService Broadcast
KW - Censorship Issue
U2 - 10.1057/9781137512819_14
DO - 10.1057/9781137512819_14
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-1-349-56631-0
SP - 202
EP - 215
BT - Media, Margins and Popular Culture
A2 - Thorsen, Einar
A2 - Savigny, Heather
A2 - Alexander, Jenny
A2 - Jackson, Daniel
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - London
ER -