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Media Localism : The Policies of Place /

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 pol...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ali, Christopher (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.