Estruturas e dinâmicas espaciais da organização da internet no território brasileiro

• Main Author: Ludmila Girardi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Confins 2015-10-01
• Series: Confins
• Subjects: Internet; Territory organization; Graphical modeling (corematic); Brazil.
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/confins/9976

This paper aims to summarize the organization of communication networks for internet in Brazilian’s territory at the beginning of the 2010s, by constructing a graphical model that is the result of spatial analysis of internet accesses and the backbone’s topology. To this end, we treat the fundamental territorial and informational structures base of the internet, showing the telecommunications and computing equipments that allow the interconnection of digital networks and various services, as well as the spatial dynamics of the internet in Brazil, considering the distribution of these networks between places. The translation of these spatial logics into “coremes” aimed to emphasize the complex structural basis of this network, as well as the contrast between the privileged areas of information flow and the opposite, where the network is dispersed and void, places with low density of access or low technological diversity. The article pointed out that the internet replicates much to Brazilian urban hierarchy, but the topology of the network, despite following the same logic, brought very significant changes in the hierarchy of cities in regional terms. Of a purely graphical validity, the final model synthesizes the view we’ve got of the internet over the survey, which showed the deformity of internet’s organization in Brazil, scattered and rarefied particularly in rural and peri-urban areas.