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.

该博士论文研究改进补助金支持一个研究项目，该项目研究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，在海平面上升和风暴强度加大的背景下，该地区正在努力扩大和维持网络连接。研究人员将特别研究最近旨在扩大宽带接入的联邦和州政策举措如何在一个受环境和社会不平等影响的地方发挥作用。该研究旨在将环境和数字不平等问题联系起来，以此了解如何创建更公平和可持续的网络基础设施。该研究解决了以下研究问题。开采和区域基础设施发展的历史如何以及在多大程度上反映在当前的网络基础设施中？脆弱沿海社区维护和扩展网络基础设施的做法如何转变，以应对剧烈环境变化的影响？在脆弱的沿海社区维护和扩展网络基础设施的替代方法有哪些？为了解决这些问题，研究人员使用历史、人种学和设计研究方法来理解和绘制环境不平等与数字不平等之间的历史联系，了解在脆弱沿海社区内维护和发展网络基础设施的实践，为STS和计算研究学者开发重新构想网络基础设施的方法和实践。该研究将有助于政策制定者、计算从业者和当地社区对此类变化对网络基础设施的影响建立新的认识。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。