As part of an assignment for my Intro to Community Informatics class at GSLIS, we were to create a webliography that would select, organize, and annotate the representative web presence of a place-based community. I chose my former neighborhood Davis Square, in Somerville, MA, because I knew from personal experience that it was an excellent example of a community where online social and civic life mirror and reinforce the pre-existing offline components.

Davis Square is a privileged and unique community in many ways, and digital divides do still exist there, but the innovative and robust applications of online/offline community found there are worthy of attention and adaptation to other contexts.

This project was not very in-depth compared to much of my later work in Community Informatics at GSLIS, but it was a good introduction to thinking systemically and contextually about the intersection of online and offline community, and about the deficits and opportunities that currently exist in these areas.