Neighbourhoods

The e-neighbors project
"We're often not at home, or if we're at home, we're inside our houses... We often have garden services. We don't mow our lawns. We don't have that familiarity with our neighbors. This is our over-the-fence."
I quite liked this quote referring to neighbourhood online message systems, from a Boston Globe article about Keith Hampton's e-neighborhoods project. The project has been looking at how email technologies can stimulate and support neighbourhood relations, in four local areas around Boston Massachusetts. Keith presented at a conference a couple of years ago which I organised in Oxford and a policy seminar in London. The news I'm waiting to have confirmed is that he'll be in England again some time this spring, for an event on neighbourhoods, and I'll announce that here as soon as I have the date. (No pressure Keith!)
Posted by Kevin Harris on January