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Regional aesthetics : mapping UK media cultures
\"Although there is an increased awareness of the relevance of space and geography across humanities disciplines (the so-called 'spatial turn'), its applicability to UK media history has hitherto been largely overlooked, partly due to the prevailing interest in the discursive formation of national or globalised identity through media. This anthology sets out to redress this, through specially written chapters which explore regional media cultures, the communication of place, the influence of location, and the idea of geographically located identity. Regional Aesthetics has a historical (as well as geographical) and a cross-media focus, examining the aesthetic and political dimensions of regional representations in film (feature films, amateur film and educational film); novels; television (drama, comedy, documentary and educational programming); music; radio; and digital media. In mapping UK media cultures across the C20th and beyond, this books functions as an 'academic GPS', designed to introduce and encourage the study of regionally located media in the curriculum\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Citizens’ Media against Armed Conflict
For two years, Clemencia Rodríguez did fieldwork in regions of Colombia where leftist guerillas, right-wing paramilitary groups, the army, and drug traffickers made their presence felt in the lives of unarmed civilians. Here, Rodríguez tells the story of how these civilians use community radio, television, video, digital photography, and the Internet to shield their communities from armed violence’s negative impacts.
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A social history of contemporary democratic media
\"The last few decades have helped dispel the myth that media should remain driven by high-end professionals and market share. This book puts forward the concept of \"communications from below\" in contrast to the \"globalization from above\" that characterizes many new developments in international organization and media practices. By examining the social and technological roots that influence current media evolution, Drew allows readers to understand not only the Youtubes and Facebooks of today, but to anticipate the trajectory of the technologies to come. Beginning with a look at the inherent weaknesses of the U.S. broadcasting model of mass media, Drew outlines the early 1960s and 1970s experiments in grassroots media, where artists and activists began to re-engineer electronic technologies to target local communities and underserved audiences. From these local projects emerged national and international communications projects, creating production models, social networks and citizen expectations that would challenge traditional means of electronic media and cultural production. Drew's perspective puts the social and cultural use of the user at the center, not the particular media form. Thus the structure of the book focuses on the local, the national, and the global desire for communications, regardless of the means\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Voice of the Locality: Local Media and Local Audience
The publication is focused on the topic of local media that is often neglected in the field of media studies. The main points of view are the analysis of local audiences and the characteristics of the relationship between local media and local audiences. The international group of nineteen authors maps the specifics of the functioning of local media and, more generally, local communication in different (mainly European) states.
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Signifying the local : media productions rendered in local languages in mainland China in the new millennium
In Signifying the Local, Jin Liu examines contemporary cultural productions rendered in local languages and dialects (fangyan) in the fields of television, cinema, music, and literature in mainland China.
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Death of the Daily News
The City of McKeesport in southwestern Pennsylvania once had a
population of more than fifty thousand people and a newspaper that
dated back to the nineteenth century. Technology has caused massive
disruption to American journalism, throwing thousands of reporters
out of work, closing newsrooms, and leaving vast areas with few
traditional news sources-including McKeesport. With the loss of
their local paper in 2015, residents now struggle to make sense of
what goes on in their community and to separate facts from
gossip-often driven by social media. The changes taking place in
this one Pennsylvania community are being repeated across the
United States as hundreds of local newspapers close, creating news
deserts and leaving citizens with little access to reliable local
journalism. The obituary for local news, however, does not have to
read all bad: Even in the bleakest places, citizens are discovering
what happens in their communities and becoming gatekeepers to
information for the people around them. In McKeesport, citizens are
attempting to make sense of the news on their own, for better and
worse. This experiment not only offers clues about what happens
after a local newspaper dies, but also provides guidance to the way
forward.
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Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice
This volume inserts the place of the local in theorizing about language policies and practices in applied linguistics. While the effects of globalization around the world are being discussed in such diverse circles as corporations, law firms, and education, and while the spread of English has come to largely benefit those in positions of power, relatively little has been said about the impact of globalization at the local level, directly or indirectly. Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice is unique in focusing specifically on the outcomes of globalization in and among the communities affected by these changes. The authors make a case for why it is important for local social practices, communicative conventions, linguistic realities, and knowledge paradigms to actively inform language policies and practices for classrooms and communities in specific contexts, and to critically inform those pertaining to other communities. Engaging with the dominant paradigms in the discipline of applied linguistics, the chapters include research relating to second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, literacy, and language planning. The majority of chapters are case studies of specific contexts and communities, focused on situations of language teaching. Beyond their local contexts these studies are important for initiating discussion of their relevance for other, different communities and contexts. Taken together, the chapters in this book approach the task of reclaiming and making space for the local by means of negotiating with the present and the global. They illuminate the paradox that the local contains complex values of diversity, multilingualism, and plurality that can help to reconceive the multilingual society and education for postmodern times.
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