- Title
- Muslim media and youth in globalizing Southeast Asia
- Creator
- Nilan, Pamela
- Relation
- Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia p. 45-58
- Relation
- Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies 1
- Relation
- http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415962452
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- This chapter addresses young people engaging with media texts in Muslim Southeast Asia. It focuses specifically on Indonesia and Malaysia in the Southeast Asian region since these two countries combined have the highest Muslim population outside the Middle East. The specific examples of youth media engagement below are taken from data collected during current and recent research projects. The purpose of their inclusion as examples is to support the wider arguments in the chapter. Theoretically, the discussion below addresses the limiting nature of Western theories of media engagement that focus on the construction of individual subjectivity and/or identity. It questions the paradigm of youthful reflexivity framed around the concept of the isolated, choosing and selecting individual so emphasized in Western youth studies of reflexive practice in late modernity. Reflexive engagement of youth in Southeast Asia with media does not appear to be silent and internal-but lived and talked out endlessly with siblings, cousins and friends as collective practice in face-to-face, cell phone-to-cell phone, and virtual modes of communication. In the discussion below, reflexivity in engagement with media does not imply an isolated, self-surveillant young person.
- Subject
- Southeast Asia; media; Muslim population; subjectivity
- Identifier
- uon:6421
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/803472
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780415962452
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