DDRIG: Networked Infrastructures in Vulnerable Coastal Communities: A Historical and Ethnographic Inquiry

DDRIG：脆弱沿海社区的网络基础设施：历史和民族志调查

• 批准号: 2147052
• 负责人: Steven Jackson
• 金额: $ 1.56万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2147052&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DDRIG; Networked; Infrastructures; Vulnerable; Coastal

This Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant supports a research project that examines the impact of increasingly severe storms and rising sea levels on network infrastructures, such as the Internet and other digital communication channels. The research study is located in south Louisiana, where efforts to expand and maintain network connectivity are happening against the backdrop of sea level rise and increased intensity of storms. In particular, the researchers will study how recent federal and state policy initiatives that aim to broaden broadband access play out in a place shaped by environmental and social inequality. The research aims to connect issues of environmental and digital inequality as a way to understand how to create more equitable and sustainable network infrastructures. The study addresses the following research questions. How and to what extent are histories of extraction and regional infrastructural development reflected in current network infrastructures? How are practices of maintaining and expanding network infrastructures in vulnerable coastal communities shifting to respond to the impact of drastic environmental changes? What are alternative approaches to maintaining and expanding network infrastructures in vulnerable coastal communities? To address these questions, the researchers use historical, ethnographic, and design research methods to understand and map out historical connections between environmental inequality and digital inequality, to understand practices that maintain and develop network infrastructures within vulnerable coastal communities, to develop approaches and practices for STS and computing research scholars that re-envision network infrastructures. The research will contribute to building new understandings of the impact of such changes on network infrastructures among policy makers, computing practitioners, and local communities.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.

这项博士学位论文研究改进赠款支持了一个研究项目，该项目研究了日益严重的风暴和海平面上升对网络基础设施（例如互联网和其他数字通信渠道）的影响。该研究位于路易斯安那州南部，在海平面上升和暴风雨强度增加的背景下，正在扩大和维持网络连通性的努力正在发生。特别是，研究人员将研究旨在扩大宽带访问权限的最近的联邦和州政策倡议如何在环境和社会不平等塑造的地方发挥作用。该研究旨在将环境和数字不平等问题联系起来，以了解如何创建更公平和可持续的网络基础架构。该研究解决了以下研究问题。当前网络基础设施中，提取和区域基础设施发展的历史如何以及在多大程度上？在脆弱的沿海社区中，如何维持和扩大网络基础设施的实践转移以应对急剧环境变化的影响？在脆弱的沿海社区中维持和扩大网络基础设施的替代方法是什么？为了解决这些问题，研究人员使用历史，民族志和设计研究方法来理解和绘制环境不平等和数字不平等之间的历史联系，了解维护和开发脆弱沿海社区内的网络基础设施的实践，以开发STS的方法和实践，并计算重新获得网络基础架构的研究学者。这项研究将有助于建立对这种变化对政策制定者，计算从业人员和当地社区之间网络基础设施的影响的新理解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的评估审查标准通过评估来支持的。