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Understanding the Local Media

Meryl Aldridge

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2007), 193 pp.

"Chapter 1 argues that, nevertheless, for most people, most of the time, their immediate locality is very important. Here social change and political decisions become real; it is in actual localities that people function as citizens. A local public sphere is therefore vital to democracy, however far ... short of the conditions for Habermas’s ‘ideal speech’ it falls. From this follows the thread that runs through the rest of the book: to what extent can the local media in the contemporary UK contribute to this ‘space’? Chapter 2 explains the organizational and financial architecture of the regional press. Still profitable, still popular, how is the industry dealing with the proliferation of competing media platforms and convergence of technologies? The editorial strategies developed to accommodate these pressures in the context of wider social and economic change is considered in Chapter 3, which concludes with a case study of Birmingham and its newspapers. Faced with an increasing diversity, what techniques are used to ‘imagine’ the community? Does attempting to address everyone push human interest topics into the foreground at the expense of information and debate? Chapter 4 reviews the rapidly changing regulatory framework for regional broadcasting. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is being cast as the main player, but it is questionable whether it can devote extensive additional resources to news-gathering, given that its status and funding is legitimated by its nationwide responsibilities. Regional news on television is very popular with audiences, but they are not wholly satisfied with it. Chapter 5 argues that current analogue television regions and a ‘family audience’ together produce an interpretive frame in which the affective and subjective is bound to edge out content useful to the public as citizens. Only the BBC provides an adequate local radio news service, but its potential is limited by the target audience. The nations of the UK, the subject of Chapter 6, vividly demonstrate that every aspect of media, ownership, regulation and content is highly politicized. A case study of S4C illustrates both the importance of, and difficulties in sustaining, public service broadcasting. Chapter 7 opens with a review of the vital place that local media still occupy in journalism’s mythology. Many regional journalists take special pride in their work, despite deteriorated conditions, inadequate pay levels, and increasing concerns about whether the work-force, whether in print or broadcast, is properly diverse in all its meanings. Finally, Chapter 8 considers the future of both publicly funded and commercial regional media as new communications technologies drive potentially dramatic changes in audience behaviour and sources of revenue. It concludes that, if inclusive citizenship is to be sustained, blogs, citizen journalism and community media are, as yet, no substitute for conventional media forms." (introduction, page 2-3) more

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Kriegskorrespondenten: Deutungsinstanzen in der Mediengesellschaft

Barbara Korte, Horst Tonn (ed.)

Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2007), 383 pp.

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Online-Communities als soziale Systeme: Wikis, Weblogs und Social Software im E-Learning

Ullrich Dittler, Michael Kindt, Christine Schwarz (eds.)

Münster: Waxmann (2007), 223 pp.

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The Alternative Media Handbook

Kate Coyer, Tony Dowmunt, Alan Fountain (eds.)

Abingdon: Routledge (2007), xvi, 352 pp.

"'Alternative Media' is the term used to describe non-mainstream media forms that are independently run and community focussed, such as zines, pirate radio, online discussion boards, community run and owned broadcasting companies, and activist publications such as Red Pepper and Corporate Watch. The ... more

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Cine iberoamericano: Los desafíos del nuevo siglo

Octavio Getino

Buenos Aires: Fundación Centro Integral Comunicación, Cultura y Sociedad (CICCUS);Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (2007), 318 pp.

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Megaparty Glaubensfest. Weltjugendtag: Erlebnis, Medien, Organisation

Winfried Gebhardt, Andreas Hepp, Ronald Hitzler et al.

Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2007), 235 pp.

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Republik der Wichtigtuer: Ein Bericht aus Berlin

Tissy Bruns

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2007), 224 pp.

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Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction in Media Personnel Assigned to the Iraq War

Neil Greenberg, Dominic Murphy Samantha Thomas, Christopher Dandeker

Journalism Practice, volume 1, issue 3 (2007), pp. 356-371

"This paper investigates occupational stressors amongst media personnel assigned to work on covering the Iraq War via interviews with 54 journalists from the BBC and Reuters, who worked in Iraq between February and April 2003. A range of stressors were identified that could be categorized into three ... more

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Mediennutzung: Methodologische, methodische und theoretische Grundlagen

Christa Lindner-Braun

Berlin: Lit (2007), x, 424 pp.

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E-Partizipation: Beteiligungsprojekte im Internet

Christoph Okupe (ed.)

Bonn: Stiftung Mitarbeit (2007), 320 pp.

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Konstanz: UVK (2007), 231 pp.

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Ein Netz für Kinder: Surfen ohne Risiko. Ein praktischer Leitfaden für Eltern und Pädagogen

Andrea Kallweit (coord.)

Berlin: Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (2007), 34 pp.

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Die Medien;Las mediás

Bern: Eidgenössische Ausländerkommission (2007), 119 pp.

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Media Law for Journalists

Ursula Smartt

London et al.: Sage (2006), xi, 326 pp.

"An introduction and a reference guide to the main legal issues facing journalists, this book presumes no prior legal knowledge but covers all the relevant areas including defamation, privacy contempt of court, freedom of expression, and intellectual property." (Publisher description)

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Nationalist Myths and Modern Media: Contested Identities in the Age of Globalization

Jan Herman Brinks (ed.)

London; New York: Tauris (2006), 280 pp.

"A fascinating look at the role of the media in fostering nationalism, with a comparative approach that shows the interactions between American, Russian and German nationalism. Extreme nationalism is a subject of enormous contemporary significance today. Does patriotic pride inevitably develop into ... more

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Wer spricht: Interkulturelle Arbeit und Mehrsprachigkeit im Kontext freier Medien

Fiona Steinert, Helmut Peissl, Katja Weiss (eds.)

Klagenfurt: Drava (2006), 88 pp.

"Mehrsprachige Gesellschaften brauchen mehrsprachige Öffentlichkeiten. Was leisten Freie Medien als Foren der Sprachenvielfalt, und wie spiegelt sich die Debatte um Interkulturalität in ihrem Umfeld wider?" (Verlagsbeschreibung)

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Media and the British Empire

Chandrika Kaul (ed.)

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2006), 266 pp.

"'The only true history of a country', wrote Thomas Macaulay, 'is to be found in its newspapers'. This book explores how the media shaped and defined the economic, social, political and cultural dynamics of the British Empire by viewing it from the perspective of the colonised as well as the colonis ... more

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