What is Networked Public

COVID-19 is not the first pandemic we suffered during the urban era, but it is the first one to force governments to respond with such large-scale severe restrictions. Alongside institutional measures are the proliferation of collective endeavors that respond to community demands emerging from the struggle to contain contagion. Individuals of different age groups and demographic profiles are crowdsourcing their own solutions for both local and national issues using online tools to map and respond to pandemic- and lockdown-related crises. In seeking to understand these technological appropriations during the COVID-19 crisis in the Brazilian context, where 87% of the population lives in cities, the authors employed an online ethnographic research method and conducted a thematic analysis on 41 crowdsourced mappings in the country. The results present five main groups of matters of concern conveyed by these maps as well as the role of digital media in addressing them.