"Pirated" Transnational Broadcasting: The Consumption of Thai Soap Operas among Shan Communities in Burma

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.

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