Abstract
The aim of this research is to give a detailed description of local media working in Basque language, hence, providing a backdrop for other minority language local media. Our approach is to offer data based on a questionnaire distributed among 65 local media with a response rate of 84%, ten in-depth interviews and a focus group. The data revealed a total publication of 200.000 copies with potential for a 70 page newspaper, 400.000 readers, almost 300 employees and more than 1.000 collaborating individuals. However, in spite of seeking to collaborate within a common framework, diversity and economic insecurity limit the potential of these local media groups to do so.
DOI
10.18122/boga/vol6/iss1/1/boisestate
Recommended Citation
Bidegain, Eneko; Zuberogoitia, Aitor; and Egaña, Txema
(2018)
"Reconciling the Places Where We Live with the Spaces We Inhabit: Construction of a Communicative Space for Basque Based on a Local Media Network,"
BOGA: Basque Studies Consortium Journal: Vol. 6
:
Iss.
1
, Article 1.
10.18122/boga/vol6/iss1/1/boisestate
Available at:
https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/boga/vol6/iss1/1
About the Author
Eneko Bidegain has worked as a journalist for 15 years in the newspapers Berria and Egunkaria. He is a lecturer and researcher at Mondragon Unibertsitatea (Basque Country) since 2010. He teaches journalism, radio and Basque language. He is a member of the Hezikom research team (Education and Communication) at the same university and his research is focused on the media in Basque and on Basque identity.
EDUCATION:
Basque Studies degree (Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour)
Basque Studies master (Université Bordeaux 3)
PhD on Basque Studies and Contemporary History (Université Bordeaux 3 and Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea)
Aitor Zuberogoitia is a lecturer and researcher at Mondragon Unibertsitatea (Basque Country) since 2005. He is also the coordinator of the Hezikom (Education and Communication) research team at the same university. He studied in his PhD the presence of Basque in the contemporary bilingual nationalist press, with a view to the foundation of a communicative space in the Basque language. His main research lines are Media and Communication Ethics and History of Media in the Basque Language.
EDUCATION:
Journalism degree (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea)
PhD on Journalism (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea)
Txema Egaña holds a doctorate in Communication and Education awarded by Mondragon Unibertsitatea (Basque Country). He is a lecturer on the Audiovisual Communication bachelor’s degree course and on the research itineraries of the Ekomu and Berrimet official master’s degree courses at Mondragon Unibertsitatea, He is a member of the Hezikom (Education and Communication) research team at the same university.
EDUCATION:
Journalism degree (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea)
Information Management degree (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)
PhD on Education and Communication (Mondragon Unibertsitatea)