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Urban spaces have been occupied by the massive use of new information and communication technology as digital social networks and platforms. The digital dimension of cities became a bidirectional and omnipresent path, creating relational and interactional structures able to exchange data and media. The networked city may be analyzed and debated as a complex system that demands research about communicational plurality and development of urban space representation, considering the increasing of informational and communicational density. Digital traces from social networks developed in PortoAlegre.cc, a collaborative web map registering issues and use of urban space, were used as data input for this research. Social network analysis was used as approach permitting network structures evaluation. The results reveal the existence of short paths, with predominance of structures that follow Small World model. The analyses showed efficient networks for data exchange increasing informational and communicational density. This work contributes for Urban computing bringing alternative approaches and perspectives for this multidisciplinary area with representation and knowledge that enhance the debate about urban space.
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Florentino, P.V., Pereira, G.C. (2019). Structures of Interactions and Data in Urban Networks: The Case of PortoAlegre.cc. In: Oliveira, J., Farias, C., Pacitti, E., Fortino, G. (eds) Big Social Data and Urban Computing. BiDU 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 926. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11238-7_10
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