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Author Ali, Christopher, author.

Title Media localism : the policies of place / Christopher Ali.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series The history of communication
History of communication.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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Subject Mass media policy -- United States.
Mass media policy.
United States.
Mass media policy -- Great Britain.
Great Britain.
Mass media policy -- Canada.
Canada.
Mass media -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Mass media -- Law and legislation.
Mass media -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain.
Mass media -- Law and legislation -- Canada.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Ali, Christopher. Media localism. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017] 9780252040726 (DLC) 2016023024
ISBN 9780252099168 (electronic book)
0252099168 (electronic book)
9780252040726 (hardcover alkaline paper)