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
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