Networked Neighborhood — Kara Hadge Prone

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Networked Neighborhood: Hyperlocal Media and Community Engagement in Columbia Heights, D.C.

To finish my M.A. in Communication, Culture, and Technology in 2011, I first had to complete my honors thesis, Networked Neighborhood: Hyperlocal Media and Community Engagement in Columbia Heights, D.C. Through a combination of content analysis, social network analysis, polling, and ethnography, I studied how residents of the Columbia Heights neighborhood use hyperlocal media for civic engagement, including blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and list-servs.

Given the subject matter, I chose to present it in the form of a website with dynamic content that would make the site a useful resource for the community long after my thesis defense. I integrated several features into the site:

Newsfeed of latest content from sources included in the study, created with Dipity’s timeline tool
Twitter feed of the accounts in the study
RSS feed of related articles
Blogroll of sites included in the study
Timeline of the history of the neighborhood, created with Timeglider
Flickr gallery with photos captured during my research

Explore the site.

An Interactive Master's Thesis

Networked Neighborhood: Hyperlocal Media and Community Engagement in Columbia Heights, D.C.