This paper presents an overview of the social and cultural values attributed to live music
ecologies in urban environments. It is grounded in a qualitative content analysis of live …

Mozambique is a resource-rich energy hub, yet rural community access to electricity remains
low, and urban centres suffer poor service quality. Aging transmission infrastructure …

The US rural–urban digital divide has been a policy concern for more than a decade. The
issue has intensified with the COVID-19 pandemic and the requirement that people live …

Many rural and remote Canadians continue to experience a digital divide. Internet Service
Providers (ISPs) operating in these communities play a crucial role in connecting …

The publicly funded screen development agency, Northern Ireland Screen, has been the key
institutional actor in the exponential growth of the screen industries in Northern Ireland. The …

States around the world are struggling with illegal and hate content online. As one of the first
Western democracies to do so, Germany passed the Act to Improve Enforcement of the Law …

This article assesses the viability of RTÉ, Ireland's main public service media (PSM)
organization, as an institution and media organization against the backdrop of the largest …

Drawing on Buckingham's observation that academic research either has to become public
knowledge or its originators must have a high visibility in the public realm before their …

Theoretical debate on the relationship between the quality of government, social capital and
corruption remains underspecified in relation to the analysis of local governance. This paper …

This paper explores the role of counties in the deployment of high-speed internet
(“broadband”) networks in the United States. Counties play crucial roles in local governance …