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Summary
Thomas, Wilken and Rennie provide the first accessible, comprehensive account of Wi-Fi and its social and cultural consequences. Identifying the Wi-Fi networks in our homes, cities and communities, the authors describes how Wi-Fi has changed – and continues to shape – everyday places and spaces. They discuss Wi-Fi’s origins as an experimental technology at the end of the last millennium, the conflicts generated around its ownership and control, and the ideas and expectations attached to it by technologists, futurists, activists, and entrepreneurs. The authors reveal the ways in which Wi-Fi is an inherently social and political technology, animated by conflicting aspirations for local, public, and community control, and defined by private and corporate interests. Wi-Fi has extended and intensified our online lives as well as promising a more inclusive internet.
Wi-Fi is essential reading for students and scholars of media and communication, as well as anyone who wants to better understand this ubiquitous and influential technology.
Author Biography
Rowan Wilken is Principal Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.
Ellie Rennie is Principal Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
1. Why Wi-Fi Matters
2. Infrastructure
3. Home
4. Community
5. City
6. Problems, Prospects, Possibilities
References
Index
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