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Disrupting The Local: Sense Of Place In Hyperlocal Media, Carrie Buchanan
Disrupting The Local: Sense Of Place In Hyperlocal Media, Carrie Buchanan
Carrie Buchanan
Disruption of space and time is a feature of modern life, and nowhere is this more evident than in local communities, where outside influences routinely bring the world into our everyday lives. This study found evidence of disruption and Anthony Giddens’
concept of disembedding in hyperlocal and community news, which focuses on a single neighborhood or distinct portion of a metropolitan or rural area. It studied media in the eastern suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, where three hyperlocal and
community news organizations compete to cover the same community: The Sun Press, a traditional community weekly newspaper; The Heights Observer, a “citizen …
A More National Representation Of Place In Canadian Newspapers, Carrie Buchanan
A More National Representation Of Place In Canadian Newspapers, Carrie Buchanan
Carrie Buchanan
In their design and content, North American daily newspapers construct a complex representation of the
locality they serve and its place in the world. That construct involves the quality and quantity of local news,
relative to news in other geographic categories, and how stories from each category are displayed in the
newspaper’s pages. This article describes a content analysis that quantified and compared the representations
of locality and place in the print versions of two Canadian metropolitan daily newspapers between 1894 and
2005. The results show a marked increase in both the number of national stories and the priority given …
Sense Of Place In The Daily Newspaper, Carrie Buchanan
Sense Of Place In The Daily Newspaper, Carrie Buchanan
Carrie Buchanan
The daily newspaper in North America has long been a locally based medium, which offers an opportunity to media geographers to explore concepts of place and locality, and how they have changed over time. This article explores how newspapers create a sense of place about the locality they serve. It reviews some of the major geographic theories of place and the local, as well as the work of communications scholars on how newspapers construct reality in their pages. It applies these ideas to the notion that newspapers construct a sense of place, using both the form and the content of …
North America: Multiplying Media In A Dynamic Landscape, Carrie Buchanan, Mahmoud Eid
North America: Multiplying Media In A Dynamic Landscape, Carrie Buchanan, Mahmoud Eid
Carrie Buchanan
Perhaps no region on earth has been as affected by the dramatic pace and extent of media development since 1990 as North America, where most have ready access to new media, such as the Internet and the latest telecommunications devices, as well as the traditional newspapers, radio and television. Even traditional media have undergone profound change as convergence and cross–ownership brought them together in vast media conglomerates dominated by a handful of global corporations. Digitization has taken hold in the United States and Canada, increasing commodification and cross–ownership of all forms of communication, from movies and music to the written …