[ecrea] new book: Media Localism: The Policies of Place

new book
/Media Localism: The Policies of Place/
published by the University of Illinois Press
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/64kmn4yx9780252040726.html

The book details a comparative analysis of local media policy in Canada, 
the United States, and the United Kingdom. It addresses questions like 
what is local media in the digital age, and how do regulators and 
policymakers define the local for the purposes of regulation in each of 
these countries.

Here is the full description:

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.



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