In this Book
- Media Localism: The Policies of Place
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: The History of Communication
summary
We live in a boosterish era that exhorts us to play local and buy local. But what does it mean to support local media? How should we define local media in the first place? Christopher Ali delves into our ideas about localism and their far-reaching repercussions for the discourse of federal media policy and regulation. His critique focuses on the new interest in localism among regulators in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. As he shows, the many different and often contradictory meanings of localism complicate efforts to study local voices. At the same time, market factors and regulators' unwillingness to critically examine local media blunt challenges to the status quo. Ali argues that reconciling the places where we live with the spaces we inhabit will point regulators toward effective policies that strengthens local media. That new approach will again elevate local media to its rightful place as a vital part of the public good.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Dedication
- pp. i-vi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Abbreviations
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Part I: Introducing Localism
- Introduction: Where Is Here?
- pp. 3-29
- 1. Mapping the Local
- pp. 30-50
- Part II: Regulating Localism
- Part III: Fixing Localism
- Conclusion: The Right to Be Local?
- pp. 197-204
- Appendix: An Essay on Method
- pp. 205-210
- References
- pp. 217-246
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252099168
Related ISBN(s)
9780252040726, 9780252082238
MARC Record
OCLC
954719779
Pages
272
Launched on MUSE
2017-03-02
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2017