Media localism : the policies of place / Christopher Ali.
Material type: TextSeries: History of communicationPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780252099168
- 0252099168
- Mass media policy -- United States
- Mass media policy -- Great Britain
- Mass media policy -- Canada
- Mass media -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Mass media -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain
- Mass media -- Law and legislation -- Canada
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- Mass media -- Law and legislation
- Mass media policy
- Canada
- Great Britain
- United States
- 302.23 23
- P95.8 .A445 2017
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Introducing localism -- Introduction: Where is here? -- Mapping the local -- Part II. Regulating localism -- The policies of localism: debates, dilemmas, and decisions in local television regulation -- The communities of localism: community television in the digital age -- The ecosystems of localism: a holistic approach to local news and information -- The solutions of localism: regulatory approaches to the crisis of local television -- Part III. Fixing localism -- The political economy of localism: critical regionalism and the policies of place -- Interventions in localism: from public goods to merit goods -- Conclusion: The right to be local? -- Appendix: An essay on method.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 24, 2017).
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.
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