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  • noun news coverage of very local events, especially to the exclusion of more important world events

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Examples

  • In a way this is bad, because it seems to validate the "hyperlocalism" approach.

    Blue Hampshire JimC 2009

  • With hyperlocalism making marketing noise these days, many businesses are looking to leverage location-based enterprises such as Foursquare to microtarget potential customers where they live.

    Marian Salzman: Corporations: Pillars of the Community? Marian Salzman 2011

  • With hyperlocalism making marketing noise these days, many businesses are looking to leverage location-based enterprises such as Foursquare to microtarget potential customers where they live.

    Marian Salzman: Corporations: Pillars of the Community? Marian Salzman 2011

  • But the sense that the emerging virus of fast life was eroding a qualitatively superior way of living and eating had an unstoppable momentum, and the hyperlocalism of eating less and eating better became its own, far more beneficent political movement.

    Time For A Slow-Word Movement Trevor Butterworth 2009

  • But the concept really gained momentum this decade, with high-profile sites, such as Backfence. com, launched by hyperlocalism evangelist Mark Potts, and LoudounExtra. com, which The Washington Post Company (NEWSWEEK's owner) launched in 2007 to cover prosperous Loudoun County, Va.

    Peytonplace.com 2009

  • This post is a bit of hyperlocalism (h/t DoctorVee for the terminology) as The Shore in Leith is going to be having a Car Free Day (for 5 hours) this Sunday (tomorrow).

    Archive 2009-09-01 Jeff 2009

  • This post is a bit of hyperlocalism (h/t DoctorVee for the terminology) as The Shore in Leith is going to be having a Car Free Day (for 5 hours) this Sunday (tomorrow).

    Pedal Powered Smoothie Maker Jeff 2009

  • Today he's a VP at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, where he is leading an ambitious effort to bring hyperlocalism to the nation's eighth-largest metropolitan area.

    To Save Themselves, US Newspapers Put Readers to Work 2007

  • With hyperlocalism making marketing noise these days, many businesses are looking to leverage location-based enterprises such as Foursquare to microtarget potential customers where they live.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Marian Salzman 2011

  • With hyperlocalism making marketing noise these days, many businesses are looking to leverage location-based enterprises such as Foursquare to microtarget potential customers where they live.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Marian Salzman 2011

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