Mapping the informal organizations through the activities of the activists: the case of the self-organized spaces in the city of Naples

Contemporary cities seems aimed at increasing new configurations of urban life where "bottom-up" initiatives will play a central rule. The Naples associative dimension "from below" is an excellent case study due to characteristics forms and methods that put it as a unicum at national and international level. At present there is a cluster of varied vocation spaces in strong territorial proximity, a kind of community hub based right on the informality of its activities, impacting on the territories through forms of action that complement and enable the social capital of the territory. The added value of this phenomenon is constituted precisely by its lack of organizational formalization and consequent adaptive dynamics of their capabilities. The informal archipelago (Latouche, 1993), a sub-fund of western economies that responds to its own rules, not easy to decode because of atypical logics, Therefore, they should be considered and analysed firstly as "a form of social life". The contribution is to investigate a methodology of mapping the network of these organizations, by virtue of their organizational informality, exploiting the potential of data mining from social-media platforms in a user generated way. The basic assumption is that no formal organization is composed mainly by the dust of its activists, hence the need of methods to capture this social capital. It will also be necessary to be able to meet the social capital of such organizations, to verify their relations and key relational topic. The aim is to equip the policy maker with a tool to evaluate the action of informal organizations - both in terms of networks and geographical coverage that the definition of the activities undertaken - which at this time are set as a strategic asset for the urban development, as they are a self-organizational response to the radical crisis of the welfare policies.