Media Localism : The Policies of Place / Christopher Ali.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ali, Christopher, author.

Series:

History of communication.

The history of communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Law and legislation--Canada.

Mass media.

Mass media--Law and legislation--United Kingdom.

Mass media--Law and legislation--United States.

Mass media policy--Canada.

Mass media policy.

Mass media policy--United Kingdom.

Mass media policy--United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252099168

0252099168

OCLC:

954719779