Lit up and left dark: Failures of imagination in urban broadband networks
| Autor: | Jessa Lingel, Germaine R. Halegoua |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Imagination
business.product_category Sociology and Political Science Computer science Broadband networks business.industry Communication media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Visibility (geometry) 050801 communication & media studies 0508 media and communications Software deployment 0502 economics and business Broadband Internet access 050207 economics business Telecommunications media_common |
| Zdroj: | New Media & Society. 20:4634-4652 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7315 1461-4448 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1461444818779593 |
| Popis: | The design and deployment of urban broadband infrastructures inscribe particular imaginations of Internet access onto city streets. The different manifestations and locations of these networks, their uses, and access points often expose material excesses of urban broadband networks, as well as failures of Internet service providers, urban planners, and public officials to imagine the diverse ways that people incorporate Internet connection into their everyday lives. We approach the study of urban broadband networks through the juxtaposition of invisible networks that are buried under the streets and have always been “turned off” (dark fiber) versus hypervisible that are “turned on” and prominently displayed on city streets (LinkNYC). In our analysis of these two case studies, we critique themes of visibility and invisibility as indexes of power and access. Our findings are meant to provide a critical analysis of urban technology policy as well as theories of infrastructure, visibility, and access. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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