New community networks: wired for change
New community networks: wired for change
E-topia: “urban life, Jim—but not as we know it”
E-topia: “urban life, Jim—but not as we know it”
Rise of the Network Society
Demographics and Sociographics of the Digital City
Community Computing and Support Systems, Social Interaction in Networked Communities [the book is based on the Kyoto Meeting on Social Interaction and Communityware, held in Kyoto, Japan, in June 1998]
Ennis Information Age Town: Virtuality Rooted in Reality
Revised Papers from the Second Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities II, Computational and Sociological Approaches
Revised Papers from the Second Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities II, Computational and Sociological Approaches
Worlds Apart: Exclusion-Processes in DDS
Revised Papers from the Second Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities II, Computational and Sociological Approaches
The life and death of the great amsterdam digital city
Digital Cities'03 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Information Technologies for Social Capital: cross-Cultural Perspectives
Digital Cities'03 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Information Technologies for Social Capital: cross-Cultural Perspectives
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Digital cities are developing on many places, and settings, aims, design, organization, and functionality differ among the various systems. Do differences in content influence use and users? In this paper we compare two relatively successful but dramatically different digital cities. The study is based on quantitative and qualitative research, using various data. Although digital cities are generally conceived as local information infrastructures, and as a means for enhancing democratic participation, users primarily appreciate it as a tool for communication. We also observed, among others, how cyberspace reproduces the dynamics of 'established and outsiders', which inclines us to think that 'virtual public space' is not as open as is often claimed.