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Where is here? An analysis of localism in media policy in three Western democracies.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Where is here? An analysis of localism in media policy in three Western democracies./
Author:	Ali, Christopher.
Description:	474 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-01A(E).
Subject:	Speech Communication. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3594761
ISBN:	9781303395758

Where is here? An analysis of localism in media policy in three Western democracies.
Ali, Christopher.

Where is here? An analysis of localism in media policy in three Western democracies. - 474 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2013.

The concept of "localism" in the policies and regulations of Western media systems has been a contentious issue since the origins of broadcasting in the early decades of the 20th century. "What is local?" "who is local?" and "where is local?" all represent questions that regulators have grappled with for the better part of a century when it comes to overseeing the broadcasting industries, and yet they have come to no definitive conclusions. The recent authoritative and economic "crises" of Western journalism, coupled with increased audience fragmentation away from local television, have further exacerbated this problem of the local. Still, regulators continue to position localism, particularly local news and information, as an element of the domestic media system that is not only worth saving, but worth increased investment. This holds true in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, where communications regulators - the FCC, CRTC and Ofcom - struggle with defining the local within regulatory discourse in an era in of changing media consumption habits, changing technological delivery systems, and changing social relationships to the notion of "place." It is within the tensions of definition, jurisdiction, operationalization, and implementation, fostered by these endemic challenges to the local, where the genesis of this dissertation is found. This dissertation seeks to understand how "the local" and related concepts such as "community" and "region" are discursively constructed within media policy and regulation in the US, UK, and Canada. Using a multi-method approach of critical discourse analysis of policy documents and in-depth interviews with policy stakeholders, this dissertation focuses on the policies, regulation and legislation of localism in these three countries from 2000-2012. Through the conceptual lenses of critical political economy, critical geography, and critical regionalism, I argue that a political economy of localism functions within these jurisdictions which serves to uphold the status quo of neoliberalism and neglect of localism, and downplay alternative proposals and approaches. Despite these barriers, however, "moments" of progressive thought exist within regulatory discourse, suggesting that the local is not a hermetically bounded concept, but rather a hegemonic process with opportunities for negotiation and alternative propositions.

ISBN: 9781303395758Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017408
Speech Communication.

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