GeoBlog, Digital Cartography, Augmented Cartography, participatory processes.

Can digital cartography synthesize feelings, ideas, values, and territorial projects? This question guides our reflection, which focuses the attention on a specific tool: the GeoBlog as a support to participatory processes. Starting from the recognition of the good practices on the national territory, we are going to zoom on a case study which was promoted in collaboration with the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. The experiences show that the link between reality and the virtual world is essential for the success of the projects and that the performative power of the map contributes to keep this tension alive. The first issue to deal with concerns the legitimacy of this tool and the political propensity for seizing the suggestions emerging on the Net, which is an environment characterized by a strong disparity of access but, at the same time, proves to be a structure suitable to amplify voices which are often hardly represented.