Digital Citizenship Mediating Planning Participation and Space Appropriation

Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting submissions for the Special Issue “Digital Citizenship Mediating Planning Participation and Space Appropriation”, which aims to gather cutting-edge research on technological development in digital participation and e-planning. The focus is on geo-participation and active citizen participation in collaborative planning processes. The scope of the Special Issue is on diverse and plural participation in cocreation approaches toward inclusive urban planning. The purpose is to deepen the understanding of the role digital citizenship can play in better community engagement and empowering people to appropriate urban spaces in culturally plural and integrated ways. The Special Issue will supplement existing literature by adding insights into how to formalize digital citizenship into collaborative planning participation processes to produce more humanized cities (with higher levels of gender equality in active citizen participation). The state of the art of the Special Issue main topic provides examples where digital citizenship is explained case by case. As such, the goal of the Special Issue is to advance the theory on its core subject, suppressing the trend of dealing with digital citizenship as a specific occurrence set of tactical approaches and contextual practices. The Special Issue thus invites papers explaining the path from particular/singular related experiences and events in this field of work into a systematic body of knowledge structuring and nurturing new theory.

Dr. David Leite Viana
Dr. Isabel Cristina Carvalho
Guest Editors

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