Community network development: A dialectical view

Murali Venkatesh; Donghee Shin

doi:10.1007/3-540-45636-8_14

Community network development: A dialectical view

Murali Venkatesh, Donghee Shin

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Drawing on an ongoing longitudinal research study, we discuss problems in the development of Urban-net, a next generation community network in a city in central New York. The project was funded under a state program to diffuse broadband technologies in economically depressed areas of the state. The network is technologically complex and entails high costs for subscribers. The political economy of the development process has biased the subscriber base toward the resource rich and away from the resource poor, and toward uses like intra-organizational connectivity and Internet access and away from community-oriented uses as originally envisaged. These trends raise troubling questions about network ontology and function, and about the relation between the network and its physical host community.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Digital Cities II
Subtitle of host publication	Computational and Sociological Approaches - 2nd Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities, Revised Papers
Editors	Makoto Tanabe, Peter van den Besselaar, Peter van den Besselaar, Toru Ishida
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	177-190
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	3540439633, 9783540439639
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45636-8_14
State	Published - 2002
Event	2nd Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities, 2001 - Kyoto, Japan Duration: Oct 18 2001 → Oct 20 2001

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	2362
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Other	2nd Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities, 2001
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Kyoto
Period	10/18/01 → 10/20/01

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Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Venkatesh, M., & Shin, D. (2002). Community network development: A dialectical view. In M. Tanabe, P. van den Besselaar, P. van den Besselaar, & T. Ishida (Eds.), Digital Cities II: Computational and Sociological Approaches - 2nd Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities, Revised Papers (pp. 177-190). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 2362). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45636-8_14

Community network development: A dialectical view. / Venkatesh, Murali; Shin, Donghee.
Digital Cities II: Computational and Sociological Approaches - 2nd Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities, Revised Papers. ed. / Makoto Tanabe; Peter van den Besselaar; Peter van den Besselaar; Toru Ishida. Springer Verlag, 2002. p. 177-190 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 2362).

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Venkatesh, M & Shin, D 2002, Community network development: A dialectical view. in M Tanabe, P van den Besselaar, P van den Besselaar & T Ishida (eds), Digital Cities II: Computational and Sociological Approaches - 2nd Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities, Revised Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 2362, Springer Verlag, pp. 177-190, 2nd Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities, 2001, Kyoto, Japan, 10/18/01. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45636-8_14

Venkatesh M, Shin D. Community network development: A dialectical view. In Tanabe M, van den Besselaar P, van den Besselaar P, Ishida T, editors, Digital Cities II: Computational and Sociological Approaches - 2nd Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities, Revised Papers. Springer Verlag. 2002. p. 177-190. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/3-540-45636-8_14

Venkatesh, Murali ; Shin, Donghee. / Community network development : A dialectical view. Digital Cities II: Computational and Sociological Approaches - 2nd Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities, Revised Papers. editor / Makoto Tanabe ; Peter van den Besselaar ; Peter van den Besselaar ; Toru Ishida. Springer Verlag, 2002. pp. 177-190 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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