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How has Community Wireless Networking (CWN) contributed to a new kind of politicization of communication technology? How has grassroots experimentation with commercial WiFi technology expanded into a mobilization with social and political goals? This paper proposes an evaluative framework for CWN drawing from constructivist studies of science and technology that examine the articulations created between technology and policy. Drawing from empirical research conducted at meetings of CWN actors between 2004 and 2007, it describes the tensions created between oppositional perspectives of WiFi networks as disruptive networks and as ubiquitous networks. The paper concludes by examining the outcomes of these articulations as they influence policy and social mobilization. |
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Name: International Communication Association
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| Powell, Alison. "Social Impacts of Community Wireless Networking: Articulating Technology and Politics" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 22, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p234446_index.html> |
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| Powell, A. , 2008-05-22 "Social Impacts of Community Wireless Networking: Articulating Technology and Politics" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Online <PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p234446_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: How has Community Wireless Networking (CWN) contributed to a new kind of politicization of communication technology? How has grassroots experimentation with commercial WiFi technology expanded into a mobilization with social and political goals? This paper proposes an evaluative framework for CWN drawing from constructivist studies of science and technology that examine the articulations created between technology and policy. Drawing from empirical research conducted at meetings of CWN actors between 2004 and 2007, it describes the tensions created between oppositional perspectives of WiFi networks as disruptive networks and as ubiquitous networks. The paper concludes by examining the outcomes of these articulations as they influence policy and social mobilization. |
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| Social Consequences of Community WiFi: Articulating Technology and Politics in the Community Wireless Movement Alison Powell Concordia University Paper given at the International Communications Association Conference Montreal Quebec May 25 2008 INTRODUCTION How has Community Wireless Networking (CWN) contributed to a new kind of politicization of communication technology? How have individual community wireless networks mobilized ? Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s amateurs experimented with modifying commercially available WiFi equipment to create local networks and connect to the |
| even if unevenly define a set of communities: local communities geographical communities cultural communities geek communities. Although all of these communities are elided together within the community wireless networking movement separately or in addition to one another they provide the scale and entry point for engagement with wireless technology. The community becomes the assembly point for the movement and for the development of a network. Thus if CWN is successful as a “policy hack” it is through linking together |
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