Media Diversity and Localism: Meaning and Metrics

MEDIA DIVERSITY AND LOCALISM: MEANING AND METRICS
[SOURCE: McGannon Center Fordham University, EDITOR: Philip M. Napoli]
Questions concerning the quality of media performance and the effectiveness of media policymaking often revolve around the extent to which the media system fulfills the values inherent in the diversity and localism principles. This edited volume addresses challenges and issues relating to diversity and localism policy in contemporary media markets. Published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates and edited by McGannon Center Director Philip M. Napoli, Media Diversity and Localism is the outgrowth of a recent McGannon Center conference held at Fordham University and funded by the Ford Foundation's Electronic Media Policy Portfolio. The book collects selected papers from this conference, all of which address the principles of diversity and localism and their role in communications policy from either a conceptual or empirical perspective. Contributors to the volume span a wide range of academic disciplines, including law, political science, sociology, communications, and economics. Media Diversity and Localism explores the following topics: media ownership and media diversity and localism; conceptual and methodological issues in assessing media diversity and localism; minorities, media, and diversity; and contextualizing media diversity and localism: audience behavior and new technologies.
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