Hi everyone!
I write to share with you the findings of my research with Dr. Myria Georgiou and Prof. Sonia Livingstone about neighbourhood communication in Harringay. We studied how different cultural groups interact within the neighbourhood using different communication resources and strategies.
Here is the link to the full final report, which you can download, and includes a detailed description on how we studied neighbourhood communication in Harringay: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/69587/
Thank you so much to those of you who kindly gave time for this study and do keep in touch if you have comments or questions. I am still undertaking research about Harringay, so looking forward to hearing from you at any point in the future.
Best wishes,
Dr. Wallis Motta
LSE Fellow
Department of Media and Communications
Twitter: @wallis_motta
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Very interesting on the nature of Harringay communities & how and when local cultures interact (or not) - worth reading!
Here's the conclusion:
"Although people from very different socio-cultural backgrounds are thrown together and co- exist in physical spaces within urban multicultural locales, they relate differently to the communication assets available to them.
In many cases, they use these assets to construct shared ethnic identities, which support a corresponding assertion of ethnic differences and a certain level of communicative segregation.
Nevertheless, people still pursue diversity and mixing with others – particularly within specific geographical demarcations, such as parks or the high street. This highlights face-to-face encounters as a crucial mechanism to achieve cross-cultural engagement.
Our research showed that it is possible to sustain a balance between separation and togetherness – a complex, even if sometimes contradictory mechanism for engagement with communities that are spatially grounded and also culturally defined.
Further research on how different locales achieve, or fail to achieve, this balance is much needed. Such research could further understanding of the conditions and of the opportunities and challenges that multicultural cities face in managing and expanding diverse, inclusive and participatory cultures of civic engagement. "
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