Certainly, all these presuppose and necessitate a clear and coherent view of the relationship between people, space and technology, and the dynamics of their links. The improvement, through Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), of the quality of urban life, the inclusion and social participation in the design of public open spaces (POS), and the development of tools for studying and supporting urban planning, constitute basic pursuits of the CyberParks project. We argue that this enriches the ethnographic approach providing a more integrated framework for the analysis of the relationship between people, space and technology. This framework draws on the public space literature and adds the technological dimension brought in by the CyberParks project. The current chapter attempts to outline such an analytical framework to guide empirical research on the issues. This makes ethnographic research much more complicated but more interesting as well. From an ethnographic perspective, this requires the researcher to capture, explore and understand the cyber-social phenomena and dynamics in a multifaceted, hybrid, triangulated and cross-referenced way. This is not simply because an additional layer of analysis is added it comes as a result of the emergence of multiple connections between the real and the virtual. However, the technological dimension makes the relationship between people and space more complex. The ethnographic approach means, by definition, an in-depth, micro-scale look at the phenomena under concern. Urban ethnography brings together a number of perspectives and approaches to deal with cultural and social aspects of urban life, and as such it is able to provide an integrated methodological framework for the study of technology-public space relationship. Such research necessitates a solid methodological base. CyberParks aims at advancing knowledge on the relationship between information and communication technologies and the socially sustainable production and usage of public open spaces.
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