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This was a short presentation as part of a panel discussion on hyperlocal at the Perugia International Journalism Festival.
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London – local but size of a country
Camden – local but 300k
Camden quarter: Kentish Town
Camden quarter: Kentish Town
Stone Is Rolling
Caerphilly Does It
Hyperlocal: Le Boc
Hyperlocal: Le Boc
We are NOT just geography
We already have communities: social mediaTwitter, Facebook, forums eg MumsnetWe have glocal identities:North, South, East and West London + Germany,
Bolivia and BirminghamWe have identities of interest:Football, archeology, sea-kayaking
Networked Hyperlocal
Don’t expect hyper-local to pay – it’s a campaignMainstream media can provide infrastructure but not contentNews organisations don’t have experience of networks, they do processesMore ‘hyper’ – less ‘locale’
Prof. Charlie BeckettDirector of PolisHead of Dept of Media and Communications atThe London School of [email protected]@lse.ac.ukhttp://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/http://www.slideshare.net/charliebeckett
