Thinking relationally about digital inequality in rural regions of the U.S
Thinking relationally about digital inequality in rural regions of the U.S
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对美国农村地区数字不平等的相关思考
作者：
J. Burrell
本文从科学和技术研究的最新发展中重新考虑了数字不平等的概念，包括不断发展的物质性理论（Barad，2003;班尼特，2010; Ingold，2012），关键媒体基础设施的工作（Parks和Starosielski，2015），以及维护和维修（杰克逊，2014;埃杰顿，2007）。关于物质世界的新思维方式从对“物体”的文化意义的考察转向考虑我们生活在其中并通过其相互作用的材料的关系性、活力和持续的“变化”。这些创新性的理论发展提供了新的方法来框架当今的问题和后果的不同的连接提请注意连接基础设施，而不是接入的端点。我从互联网接入和使用在北方加州的农村和偏远地区的人种学田野工作，以显示如何不均衡和不完整的部署互联网及其物理基础设施跨越空间形状的互联网农村的经验。
This article reconsiders the concept of digital inequality drawing from recent developments in science and technology studies, including evolving theories of materiality (Barad, 2003; Bennett, 2010; Ingold, 2012), work on critical media infrastructures (Parks and Starosielski, 2015), and on maintenance and repair (Jackson, 2014; Edgerton, 2007). New ways of thinking about the material world move away from an examination of the cultural significance of ‘objects’ to consider the relationality, vibrancy, and continual “becoming” of materials that we live amidst and interact through. These innovative theoretical developments offer new ways of framing present-day problems and consequences of disparate connectivity by drawing attention to connecting infrastructures instead of the end points of access. I draw from ethnographic fieldwork on Internet access and use in a rural and remote part of northern California to show how the uneven and patchy deployment of the Internet and its physical infrastructures across space shapes rural experiences of the Internet.