Summarize And Discuss The Tensions Apparent In Contemporary Cultural And Communications Policy Debates. Include A Case Study Analysis Of A Specific Policy Statement, Which Names And Discusses The Specific Rhetorical Frameworks Informing The Author...
...Garnham as the study of the ways in which public authorities shape, or try to shape, the structures and practices of the media
the study of the reasons for these policies, both in the sense of the reasons given by policy makers for their policies
in the sense of the economic, social, political and cultural forces to which the explicit policy is a response? and the study of the impact of these policies?which may be positive or negative. (1998:210) Mark Considine more or less sums it up by defining policy as the continuing work done by groups of policy actors who use available public institutions to articulate and express the things they value?(Cited in Cunningham & Flew, 2002:51). The Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 (Act 588) which was enacted to repeal the Telecommunication Act 1950 and the Broadcasting Act 1988 (Nain, 2003:107) will be the policy statement placed under scrutiny to further explore the issues concerning the regulation and governance of a communications industry particularly the television industry in Malaysia.
This essay will firstly make a distinction between state, nation and nation-state. According to Habermas, the modern state is formed by a legally constituted and highly differentiated administrative apparatus which has sole control over legal means of violence and obeys an interesting division of labour with a market society set free from economic functions (1996:281). Due to different functions between political and economic institution, the society and the state are interdependent. The word nation on the other hand carries the connotations of a community shaped by common descent, culture and history, often by common language?(Habermas, 1996:282). In other words, nations is a community of people who share the same culture, customs, traditions, language staying together but is not yet integrated in the political form of a...
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