1. London, UCL – University College London, May 29 - UDMS 2013 – urban data management society
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 Software
Creative Commons
Convergence:
Media conglomerates
Internet

4. London, UCL – University College London, May 29 - UDMS 2013 – urban data management society
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
Desocupa
Movement
address demandsaddress demands for participationfor participation
in planning and policiesin planning and policies
organize actions to physically changeorganize 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 space
induce impactsinduce impacts
in appropriation and planning of citiesin appropriation and planning of cities

24. London, UCL – University College London, May 29 - UDMS 2013 – urban data management society
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

25. London, UCL – University College London, May 29 - UDMS 2013 – urban data management society
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