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Digital Cities: Organization, Content, and Use

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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.

This paper summarizes some of the findings of two research projects [17],[22],[23] on which we will publish more extensively elsewhere. The authors gratefully acknowledge the digital cities in Amsterdam and Parthenay for their cooperation in the research underlying this paper.

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  1. Social Informatics, University of Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter van den Besselaar & Dennis Beckers

  2. Independent journalist, Amstel 49, 1011PW, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Isabel Melis

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  1. Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan

    Toru Ishida

  2. Netsage Corporation, 3001 19th Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA, 94110, USA

    Katherine Isbister

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van den Besselaar, P., Melis, I., Beckers, D. (2000). Digital Cities: Organization, Content, and Use. In: Ishida, T., Isbister, K. (eds) Digital Cities. Digital Cities 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1765. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46422-0_3

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