Monograph "Cities in the information society"
Bibliographical tools for a walk through today's cybercity
Óscar López (oscarlcat@gmail.com)
FPU-MEC Scholar. Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (UAB)
Since its initial definition, the cybercity has frequently been interpreted as a fictional urban space, far removed from our current everyday practices, and also as a supplementary reality, added to the "real city". In this revision, we aim to show that perhaps the cybercity -comprising new spaces, technologies and social practices- is not so far away. This is reflected in an extensive range of books which, from different disciplines and theoretical positions, explain what today's cities are like, with the rise in new technologies forming a backdrop. We have selected some of these works on the cybercity with a dual aim in mind: on the one hand, that this explanation of the cybercity invites you to walk through it in a different way -perhaps more aware of how this blurs the limits between what is real and what is virtual- and, on the other, that, from a theoretical and methodological point, these concepts and texts become fundamental tools for analysing and observing the contemporary urban space.
ICT, cybercity, cyberspace, mobility, urban social practices
Submission date:
September 2007
Accepted in:
September 2007
Published in:
October 2007