<scp>The Ideal V. the Real in Media Localism: Regulatory Implications</scp>

Braman, Sandra

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“…The difficulties of defining a local program illustrate the larger division between what Braman () calls the “real” and the “ideal” conceptualizations of media localism, wherein regulators invoke ideas of democracy and participation facilitated by media localism, but fail to enact operational policies to support these normative values. As Braman argues, without better understanding of these issues, we cannot hope to address the specific operational issues of localism, particularly those of technology, infrastructure, funding, programming, and news.…”

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“…Many have noted the difficulties the FCC has faced when attempting to enact localism policies (Braman, ; Cole & Murck, ; Napoli, ). Cole and Murck () have even gone so far as to call it the “myth of the localism mandate.” The Commission is forbidden, for instance, from mandating local program quotas because it would violate the First Amendment rights of broadcasters.…”

Section: Localism Definedmentioning

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“…In other words, what should “count” as local? These are seminal questions when determining the informational and communicatory needs of American, Canadian, and British communities. Localism in media policy has not been able to keep up with these changes in social relationships, technology, and community formation (Braman, ). By evading these issues, regulators miss an opportunity to bring this foundational policy principle in to the 21st century.…”

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Critical Regionalism and the Policies of Place: Revisiting Localism for the Digital Age

Ali

2015

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Local broadcasting is at a crossroads in Western media systems. While regulators work to address emergent challenges, an enduring tension within the discourse of local media regulation remains how to define “the local.” Stemming from the inability to meet this challenge, an artificial duality has emerged between communities of place and communities of interest within regulatory discussions. The larger epistemological question, therefore, remains undertheorized: How can we think through these issues in a productive fashion, rather than reducing them to an artificial dichotomy of spatial versus social? Through the use of illustrative instances from the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, I argue that the neo‐Marxian theory of critical regionalism is a useful framework to approach this question.

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“…They are at once anchored to named geographic territories, yet also positioned in globalized media spaces. This is why well-established commitments to the ideal of 'localism' in media policy and regulation (especially in the United States) are usually seen as highly ambiguous when examined in concrete instances (see Ali, 2017;Braman, 2007). As Dunbar-Hester (2013) argues in her account of debates around US low-power radio, discourses of localism tend to operate as a 'boundary object'.…”

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Roots and fields: excursions through place, space, and local in hyperlocal media

Rodgers

2017

Media, Culture & Society

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Abstract:In 2012, UK charity Nesta announced Destination Local, a program focused on future developments in 'hyperlocal media' based on location-based technologies.The program's first round funded an experimental portfolio of 10 small projects. In this paper, I present vignettes drawn from walking interviews with four of the project leaders, putting these into dialogue with phenomenological and practice-centered media theory, as well as growing interests in the geographies of media. My argument is that practices of so-called hyperlocal media should be understood via a phenomenological duality. On the one hand, as activities rooted in place: conducting media work though situated environments. Yet on the other hand, as inhabitations of field spaces:geographically dispersed social and technical worlds. This analysis suggests we step back in order to consider the conceptualization of place, space and the local itself in studies of 'hyperlocal' as an emergent form of media production.

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“…Morley, 2000), the relationships of media or communications technologies with specific discourses of localism have primarily received attention in academic research into US broadcasting policy and regulation, within which 'localism' is an (often-ambiguous) guiding principle (e.g. Braman, 2007;Calabrese, 2001). Christina Dunbar-Hester's (2013) account of how discourses of localism 8 were deployed in multi-stakeholder discussions around the expansion of US low-power FM radio bears some resemblances to the case I will examine of Destination Local.…”

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Digitizing localism: Anticipating, assembling and animating a ‘space’ for UK hyperlocal media production

Rodgers

2017

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Abstract:This paper presents an unconventional view of media production, not as the direct production of media content or forms, but the cultivation of spaces for media production taking place elsewhere. I draw on a close analysis of Destination Local, a program of UK charity Nesta, which focused on the implications of location-based technologies for the emergent field of 'hyperlocal' media. Although the first round of the program -the focus in this paper -funded 10 experimental projects alongside extensive research, my argument is that Destination Local was less a matter of enabling specific place-based hyperlocal media outlets. Rather, it was an attempt to anticipate, assemble and animate a broader UK hyperlocal media 'space', composed of both technical ecologies (e.g. data, devices, platforms, standards) and practical fields (e.g. journalism, software development, local government, community activism). This space, I argue, was anchored to a largely implicit political discourse of localism. Key words:anticipation; computation; hyperlocal media; localism; location-based media; media production; mobile technology; philanthropy; social media; space 3 The shot, initially out of focus, sharpens to reveal Maida Vale station, a London Underground stop. A woman leaving the station is shown deftly retrieving her smart phone. An upbeat acoustic guitar score begins, soon joined by harmonica. She lifts the phone to eye level, and the view cuts to an augmented reality app, seen through a point of view shot. Noticing a shuttered shop, she uses the app to call up information about a planning application for a new supermarket at the site. Then, within the same app environment, she goes on to explore a series of social media and user-generated contributions related to the planning application: on Twitter, on YouTube, in blogs, and through council petitions. It seems to be precisely the sort of app that might appeal to attentive house and flat owners living in this comfortable London suburb.LocalSay, the name of the mobile app presented in the video, was the result of a public-private partnership between London's Westminster City Council and a Soho-based digital media company, who styled themselves as 'the perfect mix of bureaucrats and creatives'.

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The Ideal V. the Real in Media Localism: Regulatory Implications

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Critical Regionalism and the Policies of Place: Revisiting Localism for the Digital Age

Critical Regionalism and the Policies of Place: Revisiting Localism for the Digital Age

Roots and fields: excursions through place, space, and local in hyperlocal media

Digitizing localism: Anticipating, assembling and animating a ‘space’ for UK hyperlocal media production

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