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Codespaces: Community Wireless Networks and the Reconfiguration of Cities
Laura Forlano
- pp 292-309
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This paper argues that the role of physical place has been significantly under-theorized in this first decade of the Internet’s adoption and that the authors are at a turning point.Abstract:
For over ten years—since the mainstream adoption of the Internet with the introduction of the World Wide Web in 1995—researchers, businesspeople and policymakers have conducted studies, launched applications, products and services, and implemented new laws related to the virtual, online, digital and networked properties of the information society. However, in this first decade of the Internet’s adoption, the role of physical place has been significantly under-theorized. We are at a turning point. A digital information layer is rapidly expanding throughout the physical spaces of our homes, offices, cities and towns. This digital layer includes mobile and wireless technologies such as WiFi hotspots, municipal wireless networks, cellular networks, Bluetooth headsets, wireless sensors and radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. WiFi hotspots can easily be found in cofABsTRAcTread more
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Wireless in the Weather-world and Community Networks Made to Last
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe grassroots innovation and recursive engagement in Argentina by members of rural community networks (CNs), or decentralized telecommunications that people build and operate themselves, and how co-design of an app unfolded along paths of growth and repair.
Connectivity in Action / Form: Non-human Performativity of Wireless Communication and its implicit Architecturality
TL;DR: This discussion on spatial effects of wireless connectivity is based on the argument that architecturality of wireless communication infrastructures results from the fact that agency of wireless signals, like that of architecture, can be observed and qualified.
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Incremental transformation of spatial intelligence from smart systems to sensorial infrastructures
TL;DR: Methods of crowdsourcing are examined through the experimental exploration of the traditional infrastructure of the Spice Bazaar in İstanbul using a bottom-up research approach to be an overarching source of specifications and policymaking for the incremental transformation of the built environment.
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Wi-Fi as Public Utility or Public Park? Metaphors for Planning Local Communication Infrastructure
Alison Powell,Alison Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the metaphors for understanding public service communication networks should be expanded from the metaphor of the "public utility" that understands Wi-Fi as similar to water or electricity, to include the public park metaphor that introduces the potential for the internet to act as a public good, while acknowledging that WiFi zones may depend on limited bandwidth resources.
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