Rural Media Studies
A Global Perspective
Rashid Gabdulhakov editor Marc Esteve del Valle editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:10th Dec '26
£90.00
This title is due to be published on 10th December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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.
An interdisciplinary and international roster of contributors foregrounds rural and remote communities as dynamic sites of innovation, struggle, and cultural (re)negotiation amid digitalization.
Although media scholarship has long privileged urban spaces, more research is needed to examine how digital technologies, platform infrastructures, and evolving media practices are reshaping life beyond metropolitan centers. Contributors employ a range of global case studies from Italy to Kazakhstan to The Lithium Triangle and beyond to 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.
Through these explorations, this volume positions rural media studies as a distinct and urgently needed subfield with the potential to challenge urban biases and widen the conceptual and methodological horizons of media research.
Too often, the rural is placed only in contrast to the urban, understood as an absence rather than a presence. Rural Media Studies corrects this, placing rurality at the center of a rich, global and deeply textured narrative. Blending inviting storytelling, vital empirical data and thoughtful theoretical discussions, Rural Media Studies dismantles the dated rural monolith, highlights the varied realities of communities across continents and demonstrates how structural inequalities play out across different media landscapes and platforms. The result is a fresh, important and genuinely urgent perspective that reshapes how we understand the rural in everyday life. -- Nick Mathews, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, USA, and Author of Deserted: Life Without Local News in Rural America (2026)
Rural Media Studies' multifaceted approach to rurality offers a welcome and much-needed anti-dote to urban-centrism and cityism. The book's shift away from the glorification of the digital, in combination with its attention for indigeneity, participation and rural journalism make it a precious contribution to a multitude of academic fields. -- Nico Carpentier, Extraordinary Professor at Charles University, Czech Republic
ISBN: 9781666981599
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288 pages