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Disorderly infrastructure and the role of government
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The articles in this volume portray government investment in wireless as a creature of recent events, but this overstates the degree to which the current historical moment is special.About:
This article is published in Government Information Quarterly.The article was published on 2006-01-01. It has received 11 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Government & Telephone network.read more
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America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940
Rudi Volti,Claude S. Fischer +1 more
TL;DR: Fischer's America Calling as mentioned in this paper explores how the telephone became integrated into the private worlds and community activities of average Americans in the first decades of this century and finds that women were especially avid in their use, a phenomenon which the industry first vigorously discouraged and then wholeheartedly promoted.
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From Design Fiction to Design Friction: Speculative and Participatory Design of Values-Embedded Urban Technology
TL;DR: The Designing Policy project as mentioned in this paper, a series of workshops on the design of urban technologies, was held in Chicago, New York, and Boston during 2012-2013 with funding from the Urban Communication Foundation.
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WiFi Geographies: When Code Meets Place
TL;DR: It is argued that as their homes, offices, cities, and spaces get layered with digital information networks, it is vital that the authors develop new conceptual categories that integrate digital and physical spaces to reconfigure people, places, and information in physical spaces.
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Metaphors for Democratic Communication Spaces: How Developers of Local Wireless Networks Frame Technology and Urban Space
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze how metaphors are employed in the case of local wireless networking and argue that the design processes that shape these networks could benefit from a more radical democratization associated with metaphors of recombination of space and technology.
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Codespaces: Community Wireless Networks and the Reconfiguration of Cities
TL;DR: 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.
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Pesky home networks trouble cable behemoths
TL;DR: The author discusses the application of the NAT (network address translation ) protocol into wireless routers which allows several computers to share a single Internet address.
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What went wrong at Ricochet
TL;DR: Ricochet as mentioned in this paper, which offered mobile wireless Internet access at 128 kb/s, had its plug pulled in August 2001 after its owner, Metricom Inc., in San Jose, Calif., spent a US $1.1 billion investment pool building and upgrading the service in 21 U.S. metropolitan areas at a furious pace.
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