Communication infrastructures and the contest over location positioning
Communication infrastructures and the contest over location positioning
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通信基础设施和位置定位之争
DOI：
10.1177/2050157919847503
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
4.9
通讯作者：
R. Wilken
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作者：
R. Wilken
本文建立在对物质基础设施的重要性的重新批判性认识的基础上，这些物质基础设施是移动通信的基础，也是重要的支撑。这篇文章的重点是一家美国公司的起伏不定的命运：天钩无线。该公司成立于2003年，明确的目标是探索和开发系统，以应对与通信基础设施相关的非常具体的挑战：如何根据Wi-Fi信号计算位置定位，而不是通过蜂窝发射塔或使用GPS？在这篇文章中，我详细介绍了他们实现这一目标的技术手段，并研究了SkyHook在位置定位和分析领域的优势如何成为推动谷歌备受争议的街景计划的关键因素，该计划旨在提取和记录Wi-Fi接入点和有效负载数据。通过对Skyhook Wireless及其技术成就的分析，本文旨在为我们理解移动设备的位置相关操作、与这些操作相关的基础设施以及围绕这些基础设施系统出现、利用、贡献和主导这些基础设施系统的业务提供有价值的新知识。
This article builds on renewed critical awareness of the significance of, and need to understand, the material infrastructures that underpin and, importantly, also sustain mobile communication. The focus of this article is on the fluctuating fortunes of one U.S. company: Skyhook Wireless. The company was founded in 2003 with the explicit aim of exploring and developing systems that responded to a very specific communication infrastructure related challenge: how to calculate location positioning from Wi-Fi signals rather than from cellular towers or by using GPS? In this article, I detail the technical means by which they achieved this, and examine how the strength of Skyhook’s position in the field of location positioning and analysis became a key factor driving Google’s highly contentious Street View program for extracting and recording Wi-Fi access point and payload data. Through this analysis of Skyhook Wireless and its technical achievements, this article aims to contribute valuable new knowledge to our understanding of the location-related operations of mobile devices; the infrastructures associated with these operations; and the businesses that have emerged around, draw on, contribute to, and have come to dominate, these infrastructural systems.
场所的调整：社交空间和普及的数字媒体
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发表时间：
2010
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作者：
Coyne
通讯作者：
Coyne