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This book explores how Ireland's community media outlets reflect and shape identity at the local level. While aspects of its culture date back centuries, the nation-state of Ireland is less than one hundred years old. Because of this and other elements of the island's history, Irish identity is a contested topic and the island is a place where culture, identity and geography are tightly intertwined. By addressing how community media serve as agents for community building, the book examines how they in turn influence the way individuals connect with their communities.

"Cover" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Dedication" -- "Contents" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Introduction" -- "1 Community Media and Identity in Ireland" -- "Identity, Community, and Geography" -- "Fundamental Constructs" -- "Identity, Community, Symbolic Construction, and Modernization" -- "2 Construction and Evolution of Irish Identity" -- "Irish Ireland: Constructing Identity From Geography and Culture" -- "Shifting Identity: Entering a Modern Age" -- "A Nation Once Again? Or at Last?" -- "Conclusion" -- "3 Irish Media and Irish Identity" -- "Media Articulations of Cultural Nationalism" -- "Government Policy and Media Control" -- "Opening Up: Media and Modernization" -- "Conclusion" -- "4 Contemporary Irish Media" -- "Three Systems Comparative Model" -- "Media System Overview" -- "Conclusion" -- "5 Community Media Theory and Project Methodology" -- "Community Ties Hypothesis" -- "Research Questions and Methodology" -- "6 Local Media Reflections of Identity" -- "No Place Like Home" -- ""All News Is Local"" -- "Game On!" -- "Conclusion" -- "7 Irish-Language Media and Identity" -- "From Cultural Nationalism to Community Expression" -- "Preserving "Who We Are"" -- "Language Integration" -- "Conclusion" -- "8 Local Focus in a Global Society" -- "Symbolic Construction of Identities" -- "Problems of the Business Model" -- "Conclusion" -- "Appendices" -- "Appendix A Quoted Interviewees" -- "Appendix B Content Reviews

A survey of participants in message forums located within the online sites of U.S. newspapers determined that taking part in forum reading and posting helps to predict users' sense that they understand their local communities better but is not related to their actually getting out and taking part in real-world community activities.

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