Research and practice

Here we will gather links to exciting research and practical efforts related to NetHood together with short summaries of the main ideas and lessons learned for future practical deployments.

Starting points

Projects
Community Wireless Infrastructure Research Project (CWIRP): http://www.cwirp.org/ (Canada)
Urban Informatics: http://www.urbaninformatics.net/blog/ (Australia)
i-neighbors: http://www.i-neighbors.org (USA)
Senseable City Lab: http://senseable.mit.edu/ (USA)
PeerSoN: http://www.peerson.net/ (Europe)
SocialNets: http://www.social-nets.eu/ (Europe)

Practice
peuplade: http://www.peuplade.fr (french)
Front Porch Forum: http://www.frontporchforum.com
Wireless community networks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region

People
Keith Hampton: http://www.mysocialnetwork.net/
Howard Rheingold: http://www.rheingold.com/
Clay Shirky: http://www.shirky.com/
William Mitchell: http://web.media.mit.edu/~wjm/

Blogs
We make money not art: http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/
Pasta&Vinegar: http://liftlab.com/think/nova

Cooperative research
Cooperative Commons: http://cooperationcommons.com/
Wikipedia (of course): http://wikipedia.org




Our publications

Places on the Net, Cities 3.0, 14th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society, REAL CORP, Sitges, Spain, April 2009. (I. Apostol, P. Antoniadis, and T. Banerjee). [pdf ]

From Face-Block to Facebook or the Other Way Around?, International workshop on Sustainable City and Creativity: Promoting Creative Urban Initiatives, Naples, September 2008. (I. Apostol, P. Antoniadis, and T. Banerjee). [pdf]

Flânerie between Net and Place: Possibilities for Participation in Planning, ACSP-AESOP 4th Joint Congress, Chicago, Illinois, July 2008. (I. Apostol, P. Antoniadis, and T. Banerjee) [abstract]