SaTC: CORE: Small: Safeguarding and Enhancing the Experience of Public Internet Users.

SaTC：核心：小型：保护和增强公共互联网用户的体验。

• 批准号: 1946180
• 负责人: Andrew Davidson
• 金额: $ 51.6万
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1946180&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SaTC; CORE; Small; Safeguarding; Enhancing

The ready availability of computing resources such as word processing, social media, and broadband Internet access has become a social and economic necessity. However, the way in which those resources are accessed is influenced by larger issues of social and economic inequality. Those who do not have their own computer to access digital resources must rely on public computing systems such as those offered by public libraries. This population faces a unique set of challenges: their computing lives are resource-limited, transient, and less private and secure than those who own their computers and access the Web through broadband at home. Public Internet users’ engagement with library computers is somewhat analogous to the way people experiencing physical homelessness relate to a temporary shelter: the facility may provide basic necessities and be an essential resource for them, but it is not a substitute for the many benefits and control people have in their personal home. This project seeks to understand and mitigate the challenges faced by people who must use public resources to connect to the Internet and fully use its resources. A key contribution will be the development of a hybrid software-hardware prototype device. The device would allow a person to have a seamless, secure computing session carried out and maintained on the device. This project includes the design of a functional prototype, and iterative tests of the device in collaboration with members of the target population, incorporating their experiences in the design process. For those persons, the lack of secure, private computing resources undermines their participation in new forms of civic involvement. This work can lead to a new, inexpensive, and easily replicated technology that could be adopted widely by public libraries in many different communities. Doing so would address the security and functional challenges of citizens without private Internet access and advance the goal of a secure and trustworthy cyberspace. This societal benefit will address the needs of under-represented and under-served populations and ameliorate key aspects of the unequal distribution of the risks and resources associated with online life for some of our most vulnerable citizens.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

随时可用的计算资源，如文字处理、社交媒体和宽带互联网接入，已经成为社会和经济的必需品。然而，获取这些资源的方式受到社会和经济不平等等更大问题的影响。那些没有自己的电脑来访问数字资源的人必须依靠公共计算系统，如公共图书馆提供的系统。这一群体面临着一系列独特的挑战：他们的计算生活资源有限、短暂，与那些拥有自己的计算机并在家中通过宽带访问Web的人相比，他们的隐私和安全性更低。公共互联网用户与图书馆电脑的接触有点类似于无家可归的人与临时住所的关系：设施可能提供基本必需品，是他们必不可少的资源，但它不能取代人们在自己家中拥有的许多好处和控制权。该项目旨在了解和减轻必须使用公共资源连接到互联网并充分利用其资源的人们所面临的挑战。一个关键的贡献将是开发一个混合软件-硬件原型设备。该设备将允许人们在该设备上进行和维护无缝、安全的计算会话。该项目包括功能原型的设计，以及与目标人群成员合作对设备进行迭代测试，将他们的经验纳入设计过程。对于这些人来说，缺乏安全的私人计算资源削弱了他们参与新形式的公民参与。这项工作可以产生一种新的、廉价的、容易复制的技术，可以被许多不同社区的公共图书馆广泛采用。这样做将解决没有私人互联网接入的公民面临的安全和功能挑战，并推进建立安全和值得信赖的网络空间的目标。这种社会效益将解决代表性不足和服务不足的人群的需求，并改善一些最脆弱的公民与网络生活相关的风险和资源分配不平等的关键方面。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality

数字无家可归者：探索公共互联网接入、技术资本和社会不平等之间的联系

• DOI: 10.1177/00113921221111819
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Current Sociology
• 影响因子: 2
• 作者: Comi, Matt;Smith, Sarah;Goettlich, Walter A;Alexander, Perry;Davidson, Drew;Staples, William G
• 通讯作者: Staples, William G