---
"title": "How People Learn About Their Local Community in a Digital Age"
"description": "Kristen Purcell will be presenting Pew Internet data on local news information ecosystems."
"date": "2012-02-21"
"authors":
  -
    "name": "Kristen Purcell"
    "job_title": "Guest Contributor"
"url": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/internet/2012/02/21/how-people-learn-about-their-local-community-in-a-digital-age/"
"categories":
  - "Emerging Technology"
  - "Local News"
  - "News Media Trends"
  - "News Platforms & Sources"
"tags":
  - "Communities"
  - "New Media Ecology"
  - "News"
---

# How People Learn About Their Local Community in a Digital Age

Associate Director of Research Kristen Purcell will be presenting Pew Internet data on local news information ecosystems at a conference from February 21-22 called “Informing (In)Stability: The Security Implications of a Shifting News and Media Environment.” The conference is being hosted by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service at the CSIS National Headquarters in Ottawa. The two-day, invitation-only conference is meant to inform the government’s appreciation of existing and potential security-related consequences of a rapidly evolving information environment globally. The conference brings together an international line-up of speakers, and Kristen will be part of a panel entitled “Gauging the New Information Era” with Ethan Zuckerman of the Center for Civil Media at MIT, and Mark Graham from the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University.

http://www.slideshare.net/PewInternet/how-people-learn-about-their-local-community-in-a-digital-age