Links da Semana

Watch Dogs – Developed by the French global video game publisher Ubisoft, is the first website to gather publicly available and real-time data about Paris, London and Berlin in a single interface.

Luminous Cities – A ideia é explorar diversas cidades do globo por meio de fotos geolocalizadas do Flickr. Há imagens variadas e um mapa interativo.

David Harvey e a influência do capitalismo nos prijetos de urbanização – “A qualidade de vida nas cidades virou uma mercadoria, num mundo onde o consumismo, o turismo e as indústrias culturais e do conhecimento se tornaram aspectos importantes da economia urbana”.

Mediacity 2013 –  In contemporary cities, the effects of advanced telecommunications and commodified media exist everywhere around us. In both eye-catching and oblique ways, mass and personalised media forms reshape our spatial practices and perceptions of specific milieus and the city as a whole.

Onde Fui Furtado – Mapa colaborativo de denúncias de roubo criado por estudantes de computação da UFBA.

Participatório – Rede social para a mobilização política de jovens. Criado pelo Governo Federal.

Digital Rubbish – Livro de Jennifer Gabrys – This is a study of the material life of information and its devices; of electronic waste in its physical and electronic incarnations; a cultural and material mapping of the spaces where electronics in the form of both hardware and information accumulate, break down, or are stowed away.

Information Consumerism. The Price of Hypocrisy – Artigo de Evgeny Morozov – Even the best laws will not lead to a safer internet. We need a sharper picture of the information apocalypse that awaits us in a world where personal data is traded to avert the catastrophy.