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City as a Social Network: Brazilian Examples

Gilberto Corso Pereira (UFBa)Pablo Florentino (IFBa)

Maria Celia Rocha (PRODEB)

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Schedule

- Brief history

- Web 2.0

- Use of ICT in Brazil

- Brazilian examples

- Final Observations

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1996 – Progressive Privatization

NASDAQ collapse

Two opposing tendencies:Hacker Culture

Free SoftwareCreative Commons

Convergence: Media conglomeratesInternet

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CASTELLS & ARSENAULT (2008)

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Web 2.0:

Interaction - content production Sharing – data and information exchange

Discussion and debate

Channel – Digital Social Networks ( DSN )

Cooperative and aggregator role

Where the place can contextualize searches(FourSquare)

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From information disclosure and

experience externalized via DSN,

it is possible to expand and transform culture, uses and forms of appropriations of urban spaces

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Use of ICT in Brazil

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www.PortoAlegre.cc Porto Alegre Creative Commons

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Democratic City www.cidadedemocratica.org.brwww.cidadedemocratica.org.br

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Project Bike IT www.bikeit.com.br

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Critical Mass ( Salvador ) bicicletadasalvador.blogspot.com

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Project Canteiros Coletivos (Collective Yards)

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Movement Desocupa

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The Connected City:

-Fully Digitized Space- New tools to display and manage

information flows

- Several kinds of representation{models, cartography, images, videos, music, tweets, posts} coexist with physical structure and infrastructure

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Digital Social Networks - DSN

- Space for social interactions- Communication- Connection

- Connecting business, government, NGOs and citizens that can also act politically and influence the way of thinking and acting on structures, both physically and digitally

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Comments on examples - Proposed Classes

Public participation Urban interactions

PortoAlegre.cc

Democratic City

Canteiros Coletivos

“Critical Mass” Salvador

BikeIT

DesocupaMovement

address demands address demands for participationfor participation in planning and policies in planning and policies

organize actions to physically change organize actions to physically change the urban space use using DSNthe urban space use using DSN

new forms of interaction among citizens and urban spacenew forms of interaction among citizens and urban spaceinduce impacts induce impacts

in appropriation and planning of citiesin appropriation and planning of cities

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Final observations

Cultural and Technological Changes should be considered in current urban planning practices

Dichotomy between virtual/digital x real/physical are being surpassed by the overlap or convergence between physical and digital environments

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Future Work

As the ants, people have built traces in virtual space, informing their own network about what happens around using different kinds of media such as images, videos, sounds, geolocalization, comments, etc.

We intend to explore deeply such characteristics and investigate how digital traces in DSN may influence the perception and usage of urban space.

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Thank you!

Contacts:

pablovf@ifba.edu.br

corso@ufba.br

mrocha@prodeb.ba.gov.br