Media Systems, Access to Information and Human Rights in China and Vietnam

Vaagan, Robert W.

doi:10.18261/issn1891-814x-2011-04-02

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“…In its hybrid role of commercialized business and party-state mouthpiece, Vietnamese media often attempt to gain profits by publishing sensational content while at the same time abiding by the Communist Party’s interests. Vietnamese news media are not considered, in some archetypal liberal sense, as ‘public spaces’ to provide the information needed by citizens (Croteau and Hoynes, as cited in Vaagan, 2012: 304). Instead, notions of the ‘public interest’ and ‘national interest’ are typically articulated in ways that render them indistinguishable from the interests of the party-state.…”

Section: Media Journalism and The Vietnamese Party-statementioning

confidence: 99%

Neoliberalism and authoritarian media cultures: a Vietnamese perspective

Yến-Khanh

Phelan

Gray

2022

Media, Culture & Society

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This study asks how the concept of neoliberalism can be adapted to a critical analysis of authoritarian political and media cultures that cannot be adequately understood through the Western-centric narratives that dominate the literature on neoliberalism. We examine the case of Vietnam, a country where the relationship between the media system and the political system is defined primarily by the power of the party-state autocracy. We explore the extent to which neoliberalism is a useful theoretical category for grasping the relationship between state, market, and civil society actors in Vietnam, especially as it relates to the media system. Supported by an analysis of how Vietnamese news media cover healthcare and education for people with autism, we conclude by extrapolating three theoretical-methodological guidelines that will be useful to researchers examining the relationship between neoliberalism and authoritarian political and media cultures in different countries.

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Section: Media Journalism and The Vietnamese Party-statementioning

confidence: 99%

Neoliberalism and authoritarian media cultures: a Vietnamese perspective

Yến-Khanh

Phelan

Gray

2022

Media, Culture & Society

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“…Tolen (2007) finds a similar pattern in China, which has a similar political regime to Vietnam, where the government has become more open and allows state-controlled media to report on and interpret climate change issues more freely. Influential political actors can use media as a political tool to significantly influence the media, and in authoritarian states it is always the state actors that dominate the media (Azhgikhina 2007, Carvalho 2007, Boykoff and Mansfield 2008, Vaagan 2011. Those who control the media have the power to silence debate, suppress issues and decide what can or should not be published (Anderson 2009).…”

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“…In many contexts, mass media can substantially influence decisions. In the case of Vietnam, as in many authoritarian political systems, the media are likely to reveal and express government moderated views, particularly those that it wants the public to embrace (Vaagan 2011, Eek and Ellström 2007, McKinley 2007. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which a diversity of stakeholders' interest and their position are expressed in the media.…”

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“…In other words, under authoritarian regimes the media is much less an independent policy actor, compared to democratic ones (Silverbatt andZlobin 2004, Djankov et al 2003). In Vietnam media is state-controlled and its role is to spread propaganda about state politics and policies, to promote patriotism and socialist ideology well as to encourage people to follow and support government policies (Eek and Ellström 2007, McKinley 2007, Vaagan 2011. For example, article 88 of the criminal code bans the distribution of 'anti-government propaganda.'…”

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REDD+ politics in the media: a case study from Vietnam

Pham¹,

Gregorio

Brockhaus³

2017

int. forest. rev.

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Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) is an international effort to create financial value for the carbon stored in forests, offering incentives for developing countries to reduce emissions from land uses. Vietnam is engaged in the international REDD+ debate and is a partner to numerous multi-and bilateral agreements. Different actors have diverse interests in the REDD+ agenda, and in Vietnam, even though an authoritarian state, different views exist on what REDD+ should achieve. Through the analysis of media articles this study intends to understand how public debates on REDD+ are framed in the Vietnamese policy domain and how actors use the media to promote their interests. Reporting about a diversity of actors and interests, in particular related to expressions of equity concerns in media frames could reflect a growing inclusive political space. Our findings show that while state actors dominate REDD+ media frames, some limited space is present for non-state actors' interests, but equity issue discussed still reflect predominantly state mediated concerns. However, caution is still required due to the limitations these findings come with.

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Bibliography: Select Legal Materials on China Received and Catalogued in the Peace Palace Library in 2011

Kost¹

2012

Chinese Journal of International Law

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Media Systems, Access to Information and Human Rights in China and Vietnam

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Neoliberalism and authoritarian media cultures: a Vietnamese perspective

Neoliberalism and authoritarian media cultures: a Vietnamese perspective

REDD+ politics in the media: a case study from Vietnam

Bibliography: Select Legal Materials on China Received and Catalogued in the Peace Palace Library in 2011

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