Geomedia Keynote Slides

1. Matthew S. Weber, Rutgers University
Geomedia Conference, May 10, 2017
The Space and Place of Online News &
The Fallacy of Modern Local News

2. Source: GDELT 2017

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News Media on the Web
(Weber, Ognyanova, Kosterich & Nguyen, 2015)

9. Trinity plan approval tied to
southern Dallas backing
Analyst says business-minority alliance
emerging
Metro: Southern Dallas voters overwhelmingly
backed the $246 million proposal to develop the
Trinity River, while northern residents were split over
the narrowly approved measure, an analysis showed
Sunday.
The mayor: Kirk's political career rides high on
bond, arena wins
Editorial: Voters have prepared city for the future
Arlington: Museum plans still alive; supporters
want to take proposal to voters again
Municipal results
School elections results
Related stories
Middle East talks in U.K.
start today
Gore encourages leaders to break their
impasse
International: On the eve of a crucial round of
U.S.-led Mideast discussions, Vice President Al Gore
prodded Israeli and Palestinian leaders Sunday to
seize this "strategic opportunity" to break their
impasse.
Starr facing tough calls,
questions
Prosecutor's plans in inquiry of
Clintons remains uncertain
Kenneth Starr
National: Independent counsel
Kenneth Starr is fast approaching
some tough calls that will make
or break his sprawling obstruction
of justice investigations of
President Clinton and first lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Hubbell tapes: Transcripts of
Whitewater figure to be released
in full
Monday,
May 4
Technology
Worried about
looming antitrust
action, Microsoft
says any delay in
release of Windows
98 could hurt PC
industry
Texas
Plan views all
Texans as potential
organ donors
National
Reno to see evidence
in fund-raising probe
International
Afghan peace talks
stumble
Metro
Officials at post
office dispute violent
reputation
National
Shuttle returns from
brain mission
Texas
Troopers say
transfers were
reprisals; officials
deny punishing two
who allege traffic-
ticket quotas used
International
Magazine says
Annan knew
Rwanda risk
Metro
Cinco de Mayo
celebrations offer
variety
Today
School goes

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you've come to the right place.
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Arkansas
Log Cabin Democrat

11. “hyperlocal media operations are geographically-
based, community-oriented, original-news-reporting
organizations indigenous to the web and intended to
fill perceived gaps in coverage of an issue or region
and to promote civic engagement”
(Metzgar, Kurpius, and Rowley 2011, 774)

12. News Measures Research Project
• Project to create an archive of websites representing news for 100 local communities
• Analysis examines connection between local news & political participation, and
distribution of content via social media
• Establishes methodology for building new archives based on random sampling

13. Monica Chadha. (2015). The Neighborhood Hyperlocal. Digital
Journalism. doi: 10.1080/21670811.2015.1096747

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15. NJ Local News: 2007 - 2012

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19. Research support from:
Research supported by NSF Award #1244727 and the NetSCI Lab @ Rutgers