Nakho Kim
Communication, School of Humanities
The purpose of this project is to build a framework for exploring how a diverse local community can stay well-informed about the civic issues in their own locality, by using a better combination of existing local news outlets.
The first phase involves mapping out the diverse media outlets carrying local news, ranging from mainstream mass media to prominent clusters on social networks. The second phase will research how specific civic topics spread among those outlets, and the discussion patterns therein. The third phase will involve finding gaps in that local news ecology, which once bridged through other communication efforts will result in overall better informedness of the community.
While the second and third will involve larger data-based research dependent on funding resources, the first phase started out by performing basic data collection about local media entities.