The Project CyberParks aims to create a platform for exchange knowledge and experiences on the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in promoting participatory urban design process and on the production and use practices of public open spaces. In this paper, the Project scope is presented along an analysis of the main results of several small-scale studies undertaken within the Project. The discussion is centred around ICT as an active interface between the production of knowledge about the use of urban public space – for research purposes, and guidance for interventions – for urban design practices.

We propose a reflection about digital social networks and the forms of citizen participation and citizen mobilization. The subject relates to the technologies, social networks and its relation to the forms of mobilization, some problems related to freedom, privacy and control in social networks, and other related matters. Our main argument is that digital social networks make possible new forms of mobilization and civic participation to citizens.

Television consumption began as essentially a public phenomenon, then moving to the private sphere and the domestic space. In the digital age, television consumption is changing, adapting to new devices and expanding to other platforms. One of the most prevalent aspects of these changes is related to the fusion of public and private spaces, which mainly takes place in two dimensions: a technological one, derived from the uses and functions that audiences give to technical objects; an intellectual one, occurring by the constant crossbreeds of information and imaginary worlds, allowed by the new media and the transformations in the ways of using traditional media.

This text analyses the constitutive tension of the punk culture from a particular dimension: the dialectic between the global and the local. It focuses on the very particular context of the punk scenes in Portugal, from 1977 to the present, addressing its multiple spatial anchorages: on and off line. In this text we intertwin analytically the linkage and the territorial and affective belongings of punk to the new frontiers, interactions and dynamics provided by the Internet in the virtual space of affirmation of Portuguese punk in the present.

ICT have been playing an important role in transforming modern-liquid society. Among these, I want to emphasize the reconfiguration of the public sphere of Education as this is built through the new and multiple network connections: between people, information, communication, and knowledge-sharing. Cyberspace, where distance learning belongs, is both the support and the vehicle of these connections. With this context in mind, data of an ongoing exploratory research is shown with the aim of understanding distance learning post-graduation students opinions and experiences in social and human sciences.