[ecrea] New book: Media Localism by Christopher Ali

*Media Localism***

*The Policies of Place***

/Christopher Ali///

    "Media's woeful lack of localism is matched by lack of definition 
about what the term really means. Ali's brilliant dissection of localism 
in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada provides a 
foundation for developing strategies to restore our vanished local 
media."--Michael Copps, former Commissioner of the U.S. Federal 
Communications Commission

    "This landmark book offers a fascinating and invaluable analysis 
for anyone seeking a critical understanding of 'the local' in our 
digital age. With elegance and clarity, Ali draws from comparative case 
studies and key historical contexts to show why democracy still requires 
media localism--and why an unfettered market can't support it. This is a 
must-read for policymakers, journalists, and concerned citizens 
everywhere."--Victor Pickard, author of /America's Battle for Media 
Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of 
Media Reform Power/

    "Bold and innovative. A scholarly interrogation of significant 
moves to think through the meaning of community and how various 
policymakers, politicians, activists, and indeed entrepreneurs have 
sought to mobilize these concerns."--Des Freedman, author of /The 
Contradictions of Media/

    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. His critique focuses 
on the new interest in localism among regulators in the United States, 
the United Kingdom, and Canada. As he shows, the many different and 
often contradictory meanings of localism complicate efforts to study 
local voices. At the same time, market factors and regulators' 
unwillingness to critically examine local media blunt challenges to the 
status quo. Ali argues that reconciling the places where we live with 
the spaces we inhabit will point regulators toward effective policies 
that strengthens local media. That new approach will again elevate local 
media to its rightful place as a vital part of the public good.

*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./

University of Illinois Press | History of Communication | February 2017| 
256pp |  9780252082238 | PB | £21.99*

20% discount with this code: XCSL17LOCAL**

*Price subject to change.

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