TY - JOUR AU - Rahman, Anis PY - 2014/07/12 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Problems with Reimagining Public Media in the Context of Global South JF - Stream: Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication JA - Stream VL - 6 IS - 1 SE - Research Articles DO - 10.21810/strm.v6i1.88 UR - https://journals.sfu.ca/stream/index.php/stream/article/view/88 SP - 56-65 AB - This paper puts forward a case from the global south into the discussion of public media. It pays particular attention to Bangladesh, an epicenter of a thriving media system in South Asia. From a political economic perspective in this paper I ask: can the state broadcaster BTV be a public media? Based on a combination of methods including in-depth interviews and document analysis, I locate four problematic areas including political instrumentalization, commercialization, struggle for autonomy, and contradictory policy responses – all which impede BTV’s ability to perform as a public media. I argue that this inability has to be understood not as a failure of the state but as a result of colonial legacy, post-colonial transformation, as well as a derivative of neoliberal market-orientation of communications in the global South. ER -