Cybercities and Cyberculture

Pattern number within this pattern set: 
32
Andr
UFBa/Brazil
Problem: 

This pattern aims to investigate some possibilities of the so-called digital
cities or cybercities by analysing the phenomena under a socio-political
approach of contemporary cyberculture.

Context: 

We start by studying the city concept
itself and interrogating the way cybercities are been built recently. This
work takes into consideration the socio-cultural, political and structural
(interface) implications.

Discussion: 

We will takes into consideration the socio-cultural, political and structural
(interface) implications.and concentrates its analysis on the Digital Aveiro
experience (www.aveiro-digital.pt) and some others examples all over the
world.

The present work is part of a major research developed by a scientific
association between Faculty of Communication of Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, and University of Aveiro, Portugal. The whole project is sponsored by Portuguese and Brazilian scientific research agencies named ICCTI, Instituto de Cooperação Científica e Tecnológica Internacional (Portugal) and CAPES, Fundação para a Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Brazil).

André Lemos (alemos@ufba.br) is Doctor in Sociology (Paris V, Sorbonne) and professor at the Faculty of Communication of Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.

Solution: 

Finally we expect to point out some problems and perspectives of
current cybercities projects.

Pattern status: 
Released