• DocumentCode
    2195736
  • Title

    Area 5: community aspects, opportunities for growth. When failure didn´t matter: network technology and the reinvention of community

  • Author

    Nyce, James M. ; Stahlke, Herbert F W

  • Author_Institution
    Ball State Univ., Muncie, IN, USA
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    20-22 Jun 1995
  • Firstpage
    299
  • Lastpage
    302
  • Abstract
    Technological failure often becomes defined as an “obstacle to success” in community-based network projects. This paper describes a Jay County, IN infrastructure initiative where technological failure did not get defined as such. This raises some questions about what gets taken for granted in projects like these. In particular, this paper looks at what in community design and development efforts technology is good for
  • Keywords
    Internet; fault tolerant computing; information networks; reliability; social aspects of automation; Internet; Jay County Network Taskforce; community aspects; community design; community development; community-based network projects; information network infrastructure initiative; projects; technological failure; Agriculture; Art; Communication cables; Computer networks; Councils; Ethernet networks; Intelligent networks; Internet telephony; Isolation technology; Pediatrics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Community Networking, 1995. Integrated Multimedia Services to the Home., Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Princeton, NJ
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-2756-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CN.1995.509586
  • Filename
    509586