论文标题
互联网 - 人类基础设施：哈瓦那路的教训
Internet-human infrastructures: Lessons from Havana's StreetNet
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论文摘要
我们提出了一种混合方法，以了解人类基础设施底层网络（SNET），这是一种分布式的，社区经营的Intranet，是古巴哈瓦那的主要“互联网”。我们桥接民族志研究和对社交网络和组织的研究，以了解权力嵌入到哈瓦那snet结构中的方式。通过定量和定性地解开SNET的人类基础设施，这项工作揭示了分布式基础架构如何必然嵌入该基础设施中分布的不平等的结构性方面。尽管网络的传统技术度量反映了塑造所得网络的社会，组织，空间和技术限制，但民族志可以帮助揭示这些隐藏的支持关系的质地和作用。通过合并这些观点，这项工作有助于我们理解网络在增长和维护分布式基础架构中的角色，从而揭示了理解更大，更复杂的互联网基础架构的新方法 - 包括互联网和www。
We propose a mixed-methods approach to understanding the human infrastructure underlying StreetNet (SNET), a distributed, community-run intranet that serves as the primary 'Internet' in Havana, Cuba. We bridge ethnographic studies and the study of social networks and organizations to understand the way that power is embedded in the structure of Havana's SNET. By quantitatively and qualitatively unpacking the human infrastructure of SNET, this work reveals how distributed infrastructure necessarily embeds the structural aspects of inequality distributed within that infrastructure. While traditional technical measurements of networks reflect the social, organizational, spatial, and technical constraints that shape the resulting network, ethnographies can help uncover the texture and role of these hidden supporting relationships. By merging these perspectives, this work contributes to our understanding of network roles in growing and maintaining distributed infrastructures, revealing new approaches to understanding larger, more complex Internet-human infrastructures---including the Internet and the WWW.
