ABSTRACT

As media outlets around the globe seek to play a constructive role in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, this study looks at how local news initiatives in the U.S. city of Philadelphia attempted to respond to the information needs of marginalized communities. Using a communication infrastructure theory framework, it draws from focus groups with residents of two neighborhoods—one majority Black and one majority Latinx—as well as participant observation of and interviews with journalists in a city-wide local journalism collaboration and two community-centered projects. Through this it explores how the crisis affects links between local media and organizations, and how having community-centered projects and infrastructure for collaboration facilitated the circulation of information within and between storytelling networks in the region.

摘要

随着全球媒体机构寻求在应对 COVID-19 大流行方面发挥建设性作用，本研究着眼于美国费城的地方新闻倡议如何试图回应边缘化社区的信息需求。它使用通信基础设施理论框架，来自两个社区居民的焦点小组——黑人占多数，拉丁裔占多数——以及在全市范围内的地方新闻合作和两个以社区为中心的项目中对记者的参与观察和采访. 通过这种方式，它探讨了危机如何影响当地媒体和组织之间的联系，以及以社区为中心的项目和协作基础设施如何促进该地区讲故事网络内部和之间的信息流通。