系列：传播史
我们生活在一个喧嚣的时代，这个时代鼓励我们玩本地游戏，购买本地产品。但支持当地媒体意味着什么？我们首先应该如何定义本地媒体？克里斯托弗·阿里（Christopher Ali）深入探讨了我们关于地方主义的观点及其对联邦媒体政策和监管话语的深远影响。他的批评集中在美国、英国和加拿大监管机构对地方主义的新兴趣上。正如他所展示的，地方主义的许多不同且往往相互矛盾的含义使研究地方声音的工作变得复杂。与此同时，市场因素和监管者不愿对当地媒体进行批判性审查，削弱了对现状的挑战。阿里认为，将我们居住的地方与我们居住的空间协调起来，将引导监管机构采取有效政策，加强当地媒体。这种新方法将再次提升当地媒体作为公共利益重要组成部分的地位。
Media Localism: The Policies of Place
Series: History of Communication
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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