"Pirated" Transnational Broadcasting: The Consumption of Thai Soap Operas among Shan Communities in Burma. (cover story)

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  • Author(s): Jirattikom, Amporn
  • Source:
    SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia. Apr2008, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p30-62. 33p. 2 Black and White Photographs.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      TRANSNATIONALISM; TRANSNATIONAL television; MASS media; TELEVISION soap operas; TELEVISION programs; DIRECT broadcast satellite television; SHAN (Asian people)
    • Subject Terms:
      MYANMAR; THAILAND
    • Abstract:
      This article examines the roles of transnational media in the lives of Shan communities in Burma with a focus on their consumption of Thai satellite television, the main window to the outside world available to them. It will analyse how the Shan appropriation of transnational television creates a new site of identity transcending national boundaries and expressing an ambivalent sense of interaction with mediated modernity. The paper will demonstrate the role of transnational television as a catalyst for the emergence of Shan migration to Thailand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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