Rural Media Studies
Global Perspectives
Rural Media Studies
Global Perspectives
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Rural Media Studies: A Global Perspective brings together scholars from across the world to examine how digital technologies, platform infrastructures, and evolving media practices are reshaping life beyond metropolitan centers.
Although media scholarship has long privileged urban spaces, this volume foregrounds rural and remote communities as dynamic sites of innovation, struggle, and cultural (re)negotiation amid digitalization. The chapters explore how rural actors engage with platforms, navigate shifting information ecologies, sustain journalistic practices, and adapt to technological transformations in everyday life, governance, and agriculture. The contributions collectively make the case for rural media studies as a distinct and urgently needed subfield, one that challenges urban biases and widens the conceptual and methodological horizons of media research. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students working in media and communication, rural sociology, digital anthropology, and political communication, as well as to journalists, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to understand the rapidly changing communicative landscapes of rural spaces.
Table of Contents
Rashid Gabdulhakov & Marc Esteve del Valle
1. Towards a “Platform Rurality”: The Co-Design Experience of Community-Based Cooperatives from Abruzzo (Italy)
Antonio Opromolla, Fabio Virgilio and Francesca Belotti
2. Digital Political Participation in Rural Kazakhstan: Evidence from Three Villages
Yerkebulan Sairambay
3. Balancing Ethics and Local Advocacy: Voices from Rural Journalists in Norway and Spain
Cristóbal Mora Bieli-Bianchi
4. 'A Digital Threat?' The Impact of Technology on the Continuity of Folk Media in Ethiopia
Hagos Nigussie
5. Rural and Regional Media and First Nations Nation-Building in Australia
Holly Randell-Moon
6. The Structure of Rural Journalism: Population, Isolation, and Independence
Tyler W. S. Nagel, Scott Eldridge II and Marcel Broersma
7. “Now We Are More Llike in the City”: Digitalization of Everyday Life in Rural-Indigenous Communities of the Lithium Triangle
Martina Di Tullio
8. Playing with and Reconstructing the Rural-Urban Duality: Thracian Village Women's Digital Media Performance
Feride Güner
9. Smartphones, Surveillance, and Leisure: Rural Women's Digital Negotiations in Kerala
Renza Kalarikkandy Maliyekkal
10. Exploring Social Media as a Tool for Representation Among Rural Youth
Sindisiwe Mbili
11. Digitalisation in Agriculture: Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer and Changing Communication Structures on Farms in Austria
Corinna Peil and Ricarda Drüeke
Conclusion: Rural Media Studies: Lessons, Challenges, and the Road Ahead
Rashid Gabdulhakov and Marc Esteve del Valle
Product details
| Published | 12 Nov 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 208 |
| ISBN | 9781666981599 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 tables |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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