Understanding the Local Media by Meryl Aldridge

Understanding the Local Media by Meryl Aldridge

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Understanding the Local Media addresses the issues surrounding the role of local media in comtemporary society, explaining how regional newspapers and broadcast news are owned, regulated and organized; how these factors produce the outputs we see and hear; what we know of audiences’ attitude to them; and discusses local media as places of work.

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Understanding the Local Media by Meryl Aldridge

Exploring the British local media, arguing that they are an important component of media production and consumption, but that their central public role has been curiously neglected, this book explores the development of the local media, the streamlining of the industry, the advantages of owning local media, and more.
Meryl Aldridge is Reader in the Department of Sociology at Nottingham. Her previous books include, 'Making Social Work News', (Routledge), 'British New Towns', (Routledge) and 'Controlling Broadcasting' (MUP).
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EAN 9780335221721
Title Understanding the Local Media
Release date 2007-01-04
Studio Open University Press
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By (author) Meryl Aldridge