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- About this book
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Based on extensive fieldwork, Jungnickel's research into community WiFi networking explores the innovative digital cultures of ordinary people making extra-ordinary things. Committed to making 'ournet, not the internet', these digital tinkerers re-inscribe wireless broadband technology with new meanings and re-imagined possibilities of use.
- About the authors
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Katrina Jungnickel is a Lecturer in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Her research explores new technology cultures, making practices and inventive methods. www.katjungnickel.com
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-6
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Who Makes WiFi (and Why Other Makers Matter)?
Pages 7-23
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Studying Backyard Technologists
Pages 24-38
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The ‘Barbie’ and WiFi
Pages 39-57
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Trees, Birds, Sunburn and Other Digital Interruptions
Pages 58-75
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- DiY WiFi: Re-imagining Connectivity
- Authors
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- K. Jungnickel
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-31253-2
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137312532
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-31252-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 150
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