Media Power in Indonesia Tapsell Ross
Media Power in Indonesia Tapsell Ross Indonesia is undergoing a process of rapid change, with an affluent middle class due to hit 141 million people by 2020. Jakarta is the Twitter capital of the…
Specifikacia Media Power in Indonesia Tapsell Ross
Media Power in Indonesia Tapsell Ross
Indonesia is undergoing a process of rapid change, with an affluent middle class due to hit 141 million people by 2020. Jakarta is the Twitter capital of the world with more tweets per minute than any other city around the globe. While official statistics suggest that internet penetration is low, over 70 million Indonesians have a Facebook account, the fourth highest group in the world.
Digital media is a prominent place of contestation between large, powerful oligarchs, and citizens looking to bring about rapid and meaningful change. In the past ten years digitalisation of media content has enabled extensive concentration and conglomeration of the industry, and media owners are wealthier and more politically powerful than ever before. This book examines how the political agencies of both oligarchs and 'netizens' are enhanced by digitalisation, and how an increasingly divergent society