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Product details:
- Edition number First edition
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date of Publication 3 February 2017
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780252082238
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 229x152x18 mm
- Weight 367 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 9 tables 0
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Long description:
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.
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Table of Contents:
Cover
Title
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part I: Introducing Localism
Introduction: Where Is Here?
1. Mapping the Local
Part II: Regulating Localism
2. The Policies of Localism: Debates, Dilemmas, and Decisions in Local Television Regulation
3. The Communities of Localism: Community Television in the Digital Age
4. The Ecosystems of Localism: A Holistic Approach to Local News and Information
5. The Solutions of Localism: Regulatory Approaches to the Crisis of Local Television
Part III: Fixing Localism
6. The Political Economy of Localism: Critical Regionalism and the Policies of Place
7. Interventions in Localism: From Public Goods to Merit Goods
Conclusion: The Right to Be Local?
Appendix: An Essay on Method
Notes
References
Index
