Investigating News Deserts on the Content Level: Geographical Diversity in Swiss News Media
Media and Communication, 2023 With its diverse landscape of regional and local news media, Switzerland seems far from being a news desert. However, the centralization of editorial offices following the economic crisis of journalism has led to news outlets that share most of their ...
Daniel Vogler +2 more
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Backed Into a Corner: Structural Changes That Lead to Local News Deserts
Media and Communication, 2023 On the surface, it may look like there are no news deserts in the Czech Republic, but that does not mean that all audiences are able to get relevant local news.
Lenka Waschková Císařová
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A Discursive Evolution: Trade Publications Explain News Deserts to United States Journalists
Media and Communication, 2023 Although diminishing newsrooms—and gaping holes in community news coverage—have been acknowledged in the US for over a decade, the term “news desert” did not widely emerge in discourse among industry professionals to refer to places that lacked news ...
Patrick Ferrucci +3 more
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Co-Creating News Oases in Media Deserts
Media and Communication, 2023 The Media Deserts Project is a research effort to map and model the changing media landscape in the United States. Media deserts are defined as geographies lacking fresh, daily news and information. Using circulation data of US print newspapers, emerging
Michelle Barrett Ferrier
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Deserted Local News: Exploring News Deserts From a Journalistic Recruitment Perspective
Media and Communication, 2023 An emerging body of research addresses how news deserts cause democratic deficits. This literature is mostly concerned with the closure of local news outlets.
Ragnhild Kr. Olsen, Birgit Røe Mathisen
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Local News Deserts in China: The Role of Social Media and Personal Communication Networks
Media and Communication, 2023 The field of local news is often associated with news deserts, commonly defined as geo-based communities without newspapers or other legacy media as providers of locally oriented news and civic information.
Zixue Tai, Bai He, Jianping Liu
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Places and Spaces Without News: The Contested Phenomenon of News Deserts
Media and Communication, 2023 News deserts have gained prominence both in academic literature and policy discussions about local news in recent years. Although there is no agreed definition of the term, it usually refers to the lack of or diminishing availability, access, or use of ...
Agnes Gulyas +2 more
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Understanding the Views of Tehran’s People on Celebrities in the Era of Virtual Media [PDF]
مطالعات رسانههای نوین, 2023 Our age is the age of fame and celebrities are an inescapable aspect of our daily lives. Considering the high influence and popularity that celebrities have among the new generation, their activity is considered a serious challenge in Iranian society in ...
ahmad pakzad +2 more
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Dealing With Covid-19 in Casual Democracies
Media and Communication, 2023 This article reports findings from an in-depth, autoethnographic study of local communities in Denmark and England left behind by local journalism. The study was conducted during—and is thematically framed by—the Covid-19 pandemic, and it investigates ...
Steen Steensen
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A comparative study of the Balochi story of Hani and Shaymorid with Laila and Majnun of Nizami [PDF]
ادبیات تطبیقی, 2022 IntroductionStorytelling has a significant and prominent place in Iranian literature and its history dates back to the Pre-Islamic era. Fiction poetry is a part of Iranian poetic literature.
Abdolghafour Jahandideh
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