Beyond city limits: Regional journalism and social capital
Beyond city limits: Regional journalism and social capital
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超越城市界限：区域新闻和社会资本
DOI：
10.1177/1464884912453280
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发表时间：
2013
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影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
I. Richards
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作者：
I. Richards
本文报告了一项试点研究，该研究调查了澳大利亚南澳大利亚州和加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省两个地区新闻与社会资本之间的关系。本研究旨在探讨地方媒体在促进社区沟通和了解方面的作用，并借此阐明它们对区域社会资本的可能贡献。虽然社会资本是一个有争议的概念，但文章认为，大多数定义可以分为三大类之一，研究结果表明，当地媒体促进了这些理解中的每一种联系。研究期间出现了一些主题，有助于澄清和阐明区域媒体在设定社会资本传播背景中的作用。然而，与此同时，当地记者处理工作的方式引发了一些专业和道德问题。文章的结论是，尽管存在这些困难，但所研究地点的当地媒体似乎促进了社区不同阶层之间的沟通，从而造福该社区，并有助于社会资本的发展。
This article reports a pilot study which investigated the relationship between regional journalism and social capital in two regional locations in the Australian state of South Australia, and one in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The study aimed to explore the role of local media in facilitating community communication and understanding, and, through this, to shed light on their possible contribution to regional social capital. Although social capital is a contested notion, the article argues that most definitions can be placed into one of three broad categories, and that the results of the study suggest that local media facilitate connectivity in terms of each of these understandings. A number of themes emerged during the study which help to clarify and illuminate the role of regional media in setting the communication context for social capital. At the same time, however, the ways in which local journalists approached their work raised a number of professional and ethical issues. The article concludes that, despite these difficulties, local media at the sites studied appear to facilitate communication between different sections of the community to the benefit of that community, and to contribute to the development of social capital.