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Jan 19, 2011 Comments Off on References::Urban Struggle for the Right to the City (en)

References::Urban Struggle for the Right to the City (en)

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Jan 19, 2011 Comments Off on Urban Struggle for the Right to the City (en)

Urban Struggle for the Right to the City (en)

The aim of this paper is to give an overview about the right to the city. The right to the city is a concept that is part of the discourse about contemporary urban development with its accompanied and resulting social inequalities. It is referred to in institutional discourse on international level by UN-Habitat/UNESCO, on city level in form of statutes that intends to grant more rights to city dwellers (such as in Brazil and Mexico) but emerges also in various forms in the struggle of (urban) social movements and grassroots groups all over the world. Therefore it seems to be interesting to take a closer look to its roots that has been initially planted by the French sociologist and philosopher Henri Lefebvre.

Due to its complexity, it is not the aim of this paper to comprehensively lay out the right to the city to its full extend and in all its possible forms and facets. The paper focus on the basic concepts and takes a further look at contemporary interpretations of scholars such as David Harvey and Manuel Castells. Hence, the right to the city is used here primarily to describe the development of the ‘capitalist city’, its negative effects for its inhabitants and the potential utopias that could be made possible, in contrast to other approaches such as the ‘creative city’ developed by urban theorists like Richard Florida.

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Jul 25, 2010 Comments Off on I am here, but why?

I am here, but why?

…was the initial question asked at the Festival do Mapeamento at Ay Carmela!

But, instead of writing about the festival now I also asked this question in the context of my thesis. My obvious answer: do (empirical) research about a methodology of applying mobile (communication) devices and their potentials in the struggle of marginalized people/community in urban areas by realizing a practical (participatory/emancipatory/autonomous) urban mapping project where people document their local urban environment and make use of the gathered information (ie. on a digital map) to provoke a transformation of the situation and to empower the people/community.

In theory, this sounds good but in practice, however, several fundamental problems and contradictions arise which made me rethink the objectives of the research project which I will lay out in the next paragraphs.

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Mar 8, 2010 Comments Off on Objectives

Objectives

In order to answer the research question of this thesis,
the following overall objective and the corresponding sub-objectives
shall be achieved:

Implementation and analysis of the
methodology that allows the community based mapping of the urban
environment in a peer-2-peer “produsage” process.

Determination
of the theoretical concepts for the intended produsage process.

Produsage
of an indicator system that takes the restrictions of mobile phones
and the structure of the communities’ urban environment into account.

Produsage
of a (digital) map that is fed with urban spatial information from
mobile phones.

Knowledge
exchange with the community.

Documentation
of the produsage processes and creation of a corresponding info-kit
as possible guideline for similar projects.

Mar 8, 2010 Comments Off on Research Proposal

Research Proposal

This
master thesis will be placed within the framework of the
network-society. The network-society allows many-to-many
communication, self-production, -publishing, -usage and facilitate
social change from the grassroots level. Several related concepts are
therefore important for this research:

Self-production
and usage means that we become produsers,
producer and user at the same time (Bruns,2009). Produsage also means
that information creation and usage is peer based, which assembles
the network-society’s concept of many-to-many communication.
Peer-based means that a network of interconnected people continuously
creates, changes and uses information (P2P
Foundation, 2009).
By nature, this information is common because everyone can access
these information without restriction (P2P
Foundation, 2010).
Peer-based also means decentralized, thus no central instance exist
that determines the purpose of the network.

The
network of interest for this master thesis connects people by mobile
phones. We have seen that mobile communication is the most widespread
technology which should allow many people to construct such a
network. Mobile communication is considered as the suitable tool to
form a peer-based network of people that produses common information
in order to provoke social change according to their needs and their
local context.

The
geographical focus of this thesis will be put on the urban
environment because the highly urbanized conglomerations of our time
are the place of highest disparity between rich and poor and host the
majority of the worlds population. At the same time, a large number
of social organisation and struggle can be found in this areas, ie.
local communities, cooperatives and urban (social) movements. As
shown earlier, urban areas are also those areas with the highest
concentration of mobile phone subscribers which is a prerequisite to
allow peer-based mobile phone networks to emerge.

Coming
finally back to the meaning of information itself it was shown that
information is the main good of the network-society. Information
represent political messages if they can reach the members of
society, because society construct itself around available
information, thus their public availability can be used to exercise
social power. It is therefore necessary to make information
available. When considering the urban environment, user generated
digital maps can be used to publish common information and
simultaneously provide the means to analyse and reuse them in order
to develop strategies for social change. This leads to the research
question of this thesis:

Can
mobile communication be used to map the urban environment of a
community in a peer-based “produsage” process?

The following References can also be found in the corresponding zotero.org
collection.

Bruns, A., 2009. ‘Anyone Can Edit’ : Vom Nutzer zum Produtzer. Kommunikation@Gesellschaft, 10. Available at: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/27479/ [Accessed January 6, 2010].

P2P Foundation, 2010. Commons. P2P Foundation. Available at: http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons [Accessed February 10, 2010].

P2P Foundation, 2009. Peer Production. P2P Foundation. Available at: http://p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production [Accessed February 10, 2010].

Mar 8, 2010 Comments Off on Mobile Activism and Social Change

Mobile Activism and Social Change

The purpose of the following text is to give an overview about the
worldwide rise digital activism to provoke social change with a special emphasis on mobile phone activism. It is work in progress and by
far not complete
yet. This initial version is based on the corresponding
paragraphs written for the research proposal of this thesis.

The current text tries to classifiy different forms of mobile activism according to existing projects and movements that facilitates mobile phones in their struggle. The classification is currently somewhat limited and needs to be elaborated further. The main aim is to get a rough overview about the context in which mobile phones are used more frequently (such as advocacy or crisis monitoring to name just a few) and in which areas mobile phones are not used yet used so frequently.

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Mar 7, 2010 Comments Off on The Mobile Revolution

The Mobile Revolution

The purpose of the following text is to give an overview about the worldwide rise of information and communication technology (ICT) with particular emphasis on the spread of mobile phones in Africa, South-America and Asia. It is work in progress and by far not complete
yet. This initial version is based on the corresponding
paragraphs written for the research proposal of this thesis.

The current text presents statistical information about the usage of mobile phones worldwide in terms of number of mobile phone subscribers and provides a very short analysis of those numbers.

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Mar 7, 2010 Comments Off on The Network Society

The Network Society

The purpose of the following text is to introduce the theory of the network-society which provides the theoretical framework for the master thesis. It is work in progress and by far not complete yet. This initial version is based on the corresponding paragraphs writen for the research proposal of this thesis.

It is currently divided into two parts; part one briefly explains the theory of the network-society while part two concentrates on the importance of information to provoke social change within the network-society.

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free publications

information

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menu

voz/voice

thesis

open access bibliography and sources

open access thesis repository

opens maps

audio and video archives

sharealike

contact

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