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New information and communication media (ICM) have become increasingly important for our society in recent decades and have brought about fundamental change to almost every social system. It seems increasingly to be the case that the impacts of this technical innovation are similar to those of the industrial revolution. Considerable research has been carried out on these changes across various fields and by a range of disciplines; in the area of urban studies a specific focus has been on the question of how the spread of virtual spaces is changing social and economical life in communities and cities and how geography and spatial cognition will be transformed (see Castells 1996, 1998, 2001a, b, 2009; Klaebe et al. 2009).
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Networkanalysis and – visualisation are done with visione 2.5.1 and gephi 0.7
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Rosegger, R. (2013). Urban Prosumers: Network Generated Urban Spaces. In: Andersen, H., Atkinson, R. (eds) Production and Use of Urban Knowledge. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8936-6_4
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