"The Network Is an Excuse": Hardware Maintenance Supporting Community

要旨

The global \emph{community networking} movement promotes locally-managed network infrastructure as a strategy for affordable Internet connectivity. This case study investigates a group of collectively managed WiFi Internet networks in Argentina and the technologists who design the networking hardware and software. Members of these community networks collaborate on maintenance and repair and practice new forms of collective work. Drawing on Actor-Network Theory, we show that the networking technologies play a role in the social relations of their maintenance and that they are intentionally configured to do so. For technology designers and deployers, we suggest a path beyond designing for easy repair: since every breakdown is an opportunity to learn, we should design for accessible repair experiences that enable effective collaborative learning.

受賞
Best Paper
著者
Philip Garrison
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seattle, Washington, United States
Esther Han Beol. Jang
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Michael A. Lithgow
Athabasca University , Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Nicolás Andrés. Pace
Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina
論文URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/3479608

動画

会議: CSCW2021

The 24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

セッション: Infrastructures

Papers Room F
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2021-10-26 19:00:00
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