In my final column yesterday for the final edition of the Globe’s City Weekly section, I ponder Boston’s increasingly anemic political scene. One area I don’t explore there is the impact of the media itself.

City Weekly, which provided a platform for the sort of ground-level coverage of Boston politics and neighborhood issues that has all but disappeared from the daily Globe, is the latest victim of the free-fall of newspaper ad revenues at the hands of the Internet and the global recession. Its demise now looks like yet another factor that will contribute to the dialing down of interest in local politics.

But that assessment may be premature. For all the wonder at the Internet’s ability to link people half a world away from each other, it is a particularly powerful force at the very local level, where neighbors, school parents, and other communities can share information much more readily than ever before. In my own Dorchester neighborhood, an email list-serve keeps residents in the loop on news that doesn’t even make it around the block through word-of-mouth or other, older means. A fast Internet connection surely does not guarantee a rebirth of interest in local affairs. But it seems certain that it will figure importantly in the future of local politics, no doubt in ways we are not even imagining.