ဖော်ပြချက်/အကြောင်းအရာ:
A Dissertation Presented to
The Faculty of the College of Communication of
Ohio University
In Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree
Doctor of Philosophy
by
Lisa B. Brooten
March 2003...
"...This study examines the impact of new information technologies (NITs) on the
Burmese opposition movement-in-exile based in Thailand. The intent of the research is
to determine whether NITs, primarily computers and the Internet, are helping to reduce,
maintain, or intensify ethnic conflict within the movement. The study explores
implications for political mobilization by examining what groups within the movement
have access to which technologies, and how these groups understand and use global
media and the discourses they produce. The research is a multi-sited ethnography
conceived within the epistemological framework of standpoint theory, providing an
empirically grounded exploration of the Burmese opposition movement in both its local
and global contexts. It employs participant observation, in-depth interviews and
discourse analysis to examine the impact of global communications at the local level.
The work begins with an historical examination of the development of the modern state
in Burma, which provides the context for exploring how militarization, gender and
ethnicity have affected the development of nationalisms and conflict defined largely as
"ethnic" in nature. This is followed by a discussion of how the history and current state
of communications both inside and outside Burma constrain attitudes toward the possible
uses of communications technologies and media among the opposition-in-exile. An
overview of opposition media investigates the degree to which these media have opened a space for dialogue between groups. Interviews with opposition activists and refugees
from Burma demonstrate how the Burmese regime's militaristic values are both
perpetuated and countered within the opposition movement itself. The research finds that
the introduction of NITs and patterns of foreign funding have reinforced existing
hierarchies within the opposition movement. Finally, this study demonstrates how the
"local" reinvents the "global" through the use of a global discourse of human rights
which acts subtly but powerfully to shape social conventions within the movement. This
results in an unstated hierarchy of human rights that perpetuates the inequitable gender
and ethnic composition of the opposition political groups and the hierarchy of access and
use of technologies among these groups."
ရင်းမြစ်:
Lisa B. Brooten (Ohio University thesis)
Date of Publication:
2003-03-00
Date of entry:
2005-08-10
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
အကြောင်းအရာ/အမျိုးအစား:
Language:
English
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