The past decade has seen a major structural shift in broadcasting in Southeast Asia, with the development of digital satellite and cable broadcasting - often involving major international media corporations, such as the BBC, Ted Tuner's Tuner Broadcasting and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. This shift has impacted upon some of the most information-sensitive governments in the world: Singapore, Malaysia and, until recently, Indonesia. The Politics of Southeast Asia's New Media traces the development in five countries, showing that there has not been, contrary to expectations, a collapse of state control or an crosion of national borders as a result of the globalization of news and information. Instead, state control continues in new, more subtle forms. A new commercial elite, Southeast Asia's own mini-moguls, act as gatekeepers for state interests, as partners to global media companies. The challenge to authoritarian regimes anticipated by modern theorists is not materializing. The Politics of Southeast Asia's New Media offers a comprehensive account of the political economy of Southeast Asia's media industries. It will prove to be a valuable tool for company excutives, policy-ma.