Plurality, Policy and the Local Can hyperlocals fill the gap?
Plurality, Policy and the Local Can hyperlocals fill the gap?
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多元化、政策和本地化 超本地化能否填补这一空白？
DOI：
10.1080/17512786.2014.943930
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Barnett S
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作者：
Barnett S
在过去的15年里，媒体整合的加速带来了一系列围绕编辑产出多样性的政策挑战。尽管关于国家所有权限制和其他监管干预的政策辩论很重要，但地方层面的发展往往被边缘化。然而，可以说，走向更多的整合和更多的放松监管的方向，对地方层面的民主更具破坏性，在地方层面，绝大多数公民与医院、学校、交通系统和地方议会互动。当地媒体的衰落--包括在一些城镇，地方报纸的大规模消失--导致公民缺乏信息，地方机构的问责程度也降低。本文使用现有的概念框架来评估新闻业是否以及如何对地方一级的民主生活作出现实的贡献。然后，根据这一规范框架，评估超地方媒体网站对地方民主的贡献。我们介绍了迄今为止对超本地化部门进行的最广泛调查的结果，该调查是与卡迪夫大学和伯明翰城市大学的研究伙伴合作进行的，并谈到了本地，该调查分析了180多家地方在线媒体倡议的在线问卷。我们的研究为社区媒体网站的资金、运营问题和可持续性提供了独特的见解，并表明它们具有履行至关重要的民主和公民角色的潜力。这些数据为我们的结论和政策倡议提供了建议，这些政策倡议将振兴超地方地点，从而为原本民主贫穷的地方社区提供一种真正的替代方案。
Over the last 15 years, the acceleration in media consolidation has presented a series of policy challenges around diversity of editorial output. While policy debates on national ownership limits and other regulatory interventions are important, developments at the local level are often marginalised. And yet, the direction of travel—towards more consolidation and more deregulation—has arguably been more debilitating for democracy at the local level, where the vast majority of citizens interact with hospitals, schools, transport systems and local councils. The decline of local media—including, in some towns, the wholesale disappearance of local newspapers—leaves citizens starved of information and local institutions less accountable. This article uses an existing conceptual framework for assessing whether and how journalism makes a real-life contribution to democratic life at the local level. Against this normative framework, it then assesses the contribution of hyperlocal media sites to local democracy. We present findings from the most extensive survey of the hyperlocal sector to date, a collaboration with research partners at Cardiff and Birmingham City Universities and Talk About Local, which analysed online questionnaires from over 180 local online media initiatives. Our research offers a unique insight into the funding, operational problems and sustainability of community media sites, and suggests they have the potential to fulfil a vital democratic and civic role. These data inform our conclusions and recommendations for policy initiatives that would invigorate hyperlocal sites and therefore provide a real alternative for otherwise democratically impoverished local communities.