Hong Kong Media: Interaction Between Media, State and Civil Society

Hong Kong Media: Interaction Between Media, State and Civil Society
ISBN-10
9811918201
ISBN-13
9789811918209
Category
Political Science
Pages
295
Language
English
Published
2022-08-11
Publisher
Springer Nature
Authors
Francis L. F. Lee, Chi Kit Chan, Gary Tang

Description

This book explores the challenges to news professionalism and media autonomy stemming from the state, market pressure, the digitalization of communication, and a polarized civil society in Hong Kong. China is tightening its control over post-handover Hong Kong, which includes press freedom. Harsh market competition, coupled with shifting readership from mainstream media to digital platforms, is squeezing the business viability of media organizations. The polarization of civil society in post-handover Hong Kong had degraded consensual values upon which news professionalism relies. Journalists have had to reorient news professionalism and media power in the midst of state-society tension, market pressure, and the shifting communication mode driven by digitalization. These are the key questions for Hong Kong media. This dynamic intervention will be of interest to journalists, scholars of civil society, and scholars of Asian politics.

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