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GateHouse Media New England Adds Social Networking to 159 Wicked Local Sites

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

NEEDHAM, Mass., June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- GateHouse Media New England has entered into an agreement with Waltham-based social media companyTownConnect to introduce family-based social networking and a variety of other community-building tools on GateHouse's 159 Wicked Local town websites in Massachusetts. Through the co-branded Wicked Local People sites, residents of the 159 ...

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Less time spent on most Top Newspaper sites

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

According to Editor & Publisher Only 11 Top Newspaper Web Sites Report Increase in Time Spent There have been numerous reports that newspaper subscriptions and readership are down. Many equated this to a rise in people using the newspaper's online properties instead of newsprint. Based on ...

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Neighborhoods in the Network Society: e-Neighbors Study

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Keith N Hampton an Assistant Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, has published comprehensive research on how the Internet and social networks impact local communities. The highlights: Neighborhoods host the private realm, the home, as well as the public and parochial realms of street and ...

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