Andre Lemos, Brazil
This paper 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. 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 and concentrates its analysis on the Digital Aveiro experience (www.aveiro-digital.pt) and some others examples all over the world. Finally we expect to point out some problems and perspectives of current cybercities projects.
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)
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