The mediated city: the news in a post-industrial context

Figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- About the contributors -- Introduction: a new news ecology -- Making sense of/in the city -- A week in news -- How citizens receive the news -- How people make sense of the city -- The mainstream providers of local news -- Citizen news-makers and news practices -- "Down there in Chapeltown" -- Mediating democratic accountability: the case of the care home closures -- Local news: a different story -- Appendices -- References -- Index.;How does news circulate in a major post-industrial city? And how in turn are identities and differences formed and mediated through this circulation? This seminal work is the first to offer an empirical examination into, and trace a city's pattern of, news circulation. Encompassing a comprehensive range of practices involved in producing, circulating and consuming 'news' and recognizing the various ways in which individuals and groups may find out follow and discuss local issues and events, The Mediated City critiques thinking that takes the centrality of certain news media as an unquestioned starting point. By doing so, it opens up a discussion: do we know what news is? What types of media constitute it? And why does it matter?