%0 Journal Article
%T Digitizing localism: Anticipating, assembling and animating a ¡®space¡¯ for UK hyperlocal media production
%A Scott Rodgers
%J International Journal of Cultural Studies
%@ 1460-356X
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1367877917704495
%X This article presents an unconventional view of media production, not as the direct production of media content or forms, but the cultivation of spaces for media production taking place elsewhere. I draw on a close analysis of Destination Local, a program of UK charity Nesta, which focused on the implications of location-based technologies for the emergent field of ¡®hyperlocal¡¯ media. Although the first round of the program ¨C the focus in this paper ¨C funded 10 experimental projects alongside extensive research, my argument is that Destination Local was less a matter of enabling specific place-based hyperlocal media outlets. Rather, it was an attempt to anticipate, assemble and animate a broader UK hyperlocal media ¡®space¡¯, composed of both technical ecologies (e.g. data, devices, platforms, standards) and practical fields (e.g. journalism, software development, local government, community activism). This space, I argue, was anchored to a largely implicit political discourse of localism
%K anticipation
%K computation
%K hyperlocal media
%K localism
%K location-based media
%K media production
%K mobile technology
%K philanthropy
%K social media
%K space
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1367877917704495