André Lemos is Associate Professor, Faculty of Communication, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. PhD in Sociology, Sorbonne (1995), Visiting Scholar University of Alberta and McGill University, Canada (2007-2008). Coordinator of Cybercity Research Group (UFBa/CNPq) and Researcher level 1 at CNPq. Member of Prix Ars Electronica, Wi. Journal of Mobile Media and Canadian Journal of Communication Board. This Carnet is online since March 1st, 2001.
Já postei nesse Carnet sobre jornalismo hiperlocal, que busca oferecer um conjunto de informações de proximidade, locais, cruzando blogs, twitter, jornais, instituições, etc. Para uma definição veja o artigo de Christopher Wink sobre o tema. Abaixo trechos:
Image by Minh Uong/The New York Times.
"(...) hyperlocal news (n): information gathering about a geographically-specific community that is part or was once part of a broader coverage area or focus.
So here?s what I mean by that. The hyperlocal movement is encapsulating some pretty broad, disparate agendas, from (1) citizen journalists covering their neighborhoods or towns of just a few thousand people or even fewer through to (2) media entrepreneurs who are trying to create news-gathering organizations covering as many as a few hundred thousand people in a specific geographic place ? or, you know, data assembled by a computer.
What I think they have in common is the fracturing from or refocusing of an existing coverage area. Maybe a newspaper is struggling to report on a portion of its long-held coverage area with a smaller staff or one has entirely given up a now too-large readership base as too few of them are paying for that news. (...)".
Aeroportos
Já havia falado, no Twitter, da experiência do escritor Alain de Botton que passou uma semana escrevendo um livro em Heatrow, Londres, contratado pelo aeroporto (BAA). Interessante ter um escritor residente em um aeroporto escrevendo sobre o que vê e sobre as diversas experiências desse "não lugar" (Augé). Mas o que vemos nesse relato, é que os aeroportos têm também seus idiossincrasias, particularidades, vida própria. Eles seriam assim, "lugares". Vejam o post do City of Sound sobre a experiência. Não li o livro mas já está na minha lista. Deve ser bom de ler ouvindo o "music for airports" do Brian Eno.
Abaixo alguns trechos.
"(...) Perhaps with this in mind, he addresses the issue of his patron, BAA, right away, and does so carefully, thoughtfully, and with humour. He's intensely aware of his delicate position here, and the power structures around him. He partly suggests that the new economic reality of the publishing industry has made him consider this alternative, and ancient, business model. I'm not sure that's relevant - it's a well-understood model, and we can judge the book on its merits, reading between lines as we see fit. I think once given the green light to say what he likes - and as mentioned above, BAA have chosen a writer that is hardly going to stick the boot in; at worst, a thin smile disguising a delicate stiletto nick - de Botton would clearly jump at the chance of this commission.
And who wouldn't? Airports are fascinating places, and emblematic tokens of our civilisation. This last year has been a year of flying for me. I?ve probably done over 2000 km per week for the last year, on average (with an appropriately hideous carbon footprint as a result) and so I've overly familiar with certain of these spaces. But curiously, I still enjoy them, as places. They perform a compression of so many things the experience is both everyday (almost) and surreal simultaneously.
And de Botton picks apart that paradox from almost every angles one can imagine. In fact, his starting point is that the airport is essentially the emblematic human structure:
'In a world full of chaos and irregularity, the terminal seemed a worthy and intriguing refuge of elegance and logic. It was the imaginative centre of contemporary culture Had one been asked to take a Martian to visit a single place that neatly captures the gamut of themes running through our civilisation - then it would have to be to the departures and arrivals halls that one would head.' (...)"
Comentário:
Aqui tentamos, com o jornalismo hiperlocal e com o "lugar" aeroporto, pensar na dimensão menor do espaço, uma visão do ínfimo e do mais próximo. Sobre o pequeno e o próximo, vejam abaixo esse belo clip sobre "Small Life" (via Digital Urban), com uma técnica (que já havia apontado nesse Carnet) que faz tudo parecer miniatura, mais próximo e mais distante també. Um lugar que se torna pequeno, uma miniatura viva...
Estou dando um curso aqui em Palmas sobre Mídia Locativa no DINTER (doutorado interinstitucional) na Unitins pelo nosso PPGCCC e hoje pela manhã, antes da aula, vi essa matéria do NYT sobre jornalismo hiperlocal: ?Hyperlocal? Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers de Claire Cain Miller e Brad Stone. O tema foi debatido na aula. Tenho centrado o debate na fase atual do desenvolvimento da cibercultura que tenho ilustrado com a metáfora do "download" do ciberespaço, colocando ênfase no uso dos lugares (contra toda uma tendência da primeira fase da internet, a fase do "upload", do ciberespaço "lá em cima").
Na matéria o que é interessante é, em primeiro lugar, claro, a dimensão hiperlocal no jornalismo (já que ele é sempre local, mesmo com editorias internacionais), onde as noticias são oferecidas em função da localização do usuário (saber sobre meu bairro, minha rua, etc) e, em segundo lugar, pelas característcas pós-massivas desse novo "jornalismo locativo" hiperlocal que utiliza, além de outras fontes oficiais instritucionais do lugar, a produção da blogosfera. Como afirma a matéria, pode ser uma concepção "ultra liberal" de jornalismo e mesmo um jornalismo sem "matérias jornalísticas". Esta discussão é bem interessante e merece ser aprofundada. Mas, por um lado ou pelo outro, esse é mais um exemplo da inflexão espacial dos estudos das mídias atuais.
Vejam trechos da matéria em destaque:
"If your local newspaper shuts down, what will take the place of its coverage? Perhaps a package of information about your neighborhood, or even your block, assembled by a computer.
(...) The sites, like EveryBlock, Outside.in, Placeblogger and Patch, collect links to articles and blogs and often supplement them with data from local governments and other sources. They might let a visitor know about an arrest a block away, the sale of a home down the street and reviews of nearby restaurants.
One of the most ambitious hyperlocal sites is EveryBlock (...). It fills those sites with links to news articles and posts from local bloggers, along with data feeds from city governments, with crime reports, restaurant inspections, and notices of road construction and film shoots. (The New York Times has a partnership with EveryBlock to help New York City readers find news about their elected officials.)
(...) ?We have a very liberal definition of what is news. We think it?s something that happens in your neighborhood,? said Mr. Holovaty, 28, who worked at The Washington Post before creating EveryBlock two years ago.(...)
An iPhone application lets users read articles about events within a thousand of feet of where they are standing. Outside.in, which is based in Brooklyn, licenses feeds of links to big news sites that want to deepen their local coverage, like that of NBC?s Chicago affiliate. (...)
?In many cities, the local blog scene is so rich and deep that even if a newspaper goes away, there would be still be plenty of stuff for us to publish,? said Mr. Holovaty of EveryBlock."
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