Media Localism - The Policies of Place

Christopher Ali is an assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. He is a coauthor of Echoes of Gabriel Tarde: What We Know Better or Different 100 Years Later.

List 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

About the author

Christopher Ali is an assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. He is a coauthor of Echoes of Gabriel Tarde: What We Know Better or Different 100 Years Later.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Ali
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780252082238
• ISBN: 978-0-252-08223-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: History of Communication (Pape; History of Communication; The History of Media and Communication; The History of Media and Commu
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science