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Policy-Oriented City Networks in Cyberspace: A Methodological Approach to the Understanding of Social and Political Articulations between Cities Based on the Concept of Policy Web Spheres

Policy-Oriented City Networks in Cyberspace: A Methodological Approach to the Understanding of Social and Political Articulations between Cities Based on the Concept of Policy Web Spheres
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Author(s): Klaus Frey (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil), Mário Procopiuck (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil)and Altair Rosa (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 24
Source title: ICTs for Mobile and Ubiquitous Urban Infrastructures: Surveillance, Locative Media and Global Networks
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Rodrigo J. Firmino (Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil), Fabio Duarte (Pontifical Catholic University, Brazil)and Clovis Ultramari (Pontifical Catholic University, Brazil)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-051-8.ch003

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Abstract

Whereas the academic debate on global networks used to be dominated by a focus on economic and financial flows, partially on strategies of technological or infrastructural integration, much less attention used to be dedicated to local/global articulations emerging around a wide variety of sociopolitical issues such as the fight against poverty, the strengthening of human rights or protection of the environment. In this chapter the authors endeavor to point out the limitations of traditional approaches in capturing the complexity and diversity of the emerging city networks and use the methodology of web sphere analysis to map and analyze new articulations of sociopolitical governance between different cities in the context of environmental policy as it is carried out in Curitiba, Brazil. The study is based on the mapping of Internet hyperlink connections and shows how a virtual transnational public space with the potential to support environmental governance processes in cities is emerging.

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