New images of city through the social network
International Journal of Web Information Systems
ISSN: 1744-0084
Article publication date: 10 June 2014
Abstract
Purpose
The following paper aims to study the role of Facebook to improve the participation of the stakeholders to the urban regeneration and to identify preferences and create a database. Then great attention is given to the study of the potential of the social network in linking up extremely varied users, favoring also the connection from the web to the real.
Design/methodology/approach
The methodology will combine the use of the social networking site Facebook and Checkland’s CATWOE. In this way, heterogeneous and selected groups of stakeholders could have an increasingly active role in the definition of urban strategies of transformations.
Findings
The stakeholders’ participation is revealed in the choice of criteria, future cities characters and focal points, with the objective to identify some strategies for future sustainable scenarios of development.
Originality/value
Facebook allows users to access the network of specific realities of the city and to meet and know them, improving the connection among people, thanks to the flow from web to real and vice versa.
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of Prof Maria Cerreta, Filomena Borriello and Elvira Nicolini.
Citation
Carone, P. and Panaro, S. (2014), "New images of city through the social network", International Journal of Web Information Systems, Vol. 10 No. 2, pp. 209-223. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJWIS-11-2013-0034
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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