Autore
Occelli, Sylvie

Titolo
ICTs, spatial analysis and soocio technical systems: some evidence from regional case studies
Periodico
Geotema
Anno: 2010 - Volume: 14 - Fascicolo: 42 - Pagina iniziale: 53 - Pagina finale: 61

Today Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) make it available a novel superimposing envi- ronment, i.e. an information wired environment, which concocts innovative system functionalities. These stem from the components of innovativeness underlying ICTs, and notably, the hard component associated with its tangible part, notably the technological artifacts and infrastructure and the soft component reflecting the intangible part, notably the knowledge asset and learning processes. Over the last three decades, the topics have challenged (also) geographical analysis and regional studies although today they appear even more challenging. On the one hand, the changes ICTs produce in human organizations at different spatial levels are diversified, manifold and increasingly affect social practices in unanticipated ways. On the other one, ICT usages modify the ways individuals and activities perceive, understand and move in their environment, thus prompting a need to rethink the premises on which they are conceptualized and studied. This note is a contribution in this respect. Building upon the ICT research activities carried out at Ires over the last five years it aims to provide some arguments about the opportunity to undertake this thinking. As they involve different perspec- tives of analysis, - the regional ICT observatory and road safety monitoring - these activities provide interesting vantage points from which addressing the issues. A main, and to some extent unexpected, implication exposed by the discussion is that ICT usages call for deeper insights into apparently opposite research directions. While they stimulate novel thinking about how to conceptualize geographical spaces in the information era, they also urge to reinforce the appreciation local geographic based phenomena.



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