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Found this write up of my 2012 election analysis and data use by the numerati...and how journalists have used data to map and visualize communities...2012. #mediadeserts #citations elon.edu/u/news/2013/04…
For those of you who may not know...@elonuniversity is in North Carolina (hi @thebusinessofnews), where I was doing mapping work in 2012 of media deserts, tracking online hate rhetoric and the political use of social technologies/data for targeted messaging and journalism work. 
If you go to wikipedia and look up "news deserts", the history begins in 2016 @businessofnews ? And you were....at @DukeU at the time? How coincidental that my methodology, definitions and work would be duplicated just 40 miles away? Curious. #citationsmatter
For more details on the evolution of "media deserts" from its origins in 2010 and why "news deserts" just doesn't address the crisis journalism is facing right now: mediadeserts.wordpress.com/project-timeli…
Here's the pitch I made to the Knight Foundation in 2012: michelleferrier.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/the…
Which was based on the collaborative research of the Communication Policy Research Network (of which I was a researcher) responding to changes at the FCC: academia.edu/40226876/Revie…
