Hello, fellow list members, By way of introduction, I'm Molly Steenson--an architecture PhD student at Princeton University. I've written about mobile phones in India with Jonathan Donner (in Rich Ling and Scott Campbell's book) and with Jonathan, Nimmi Rangaswamy and Carolyn Wei in James Katz's Handbook on Mobile Communication Studies.
One of the things I'm researching is what happens when major communication networks go down and how it affects urban experience. What contingencies exist? What do people do? I want to know how people move differently when their standard communication infrastructures are suddenly cut. How do people make do, communicate? What new systems get cobbled together? How do they hack the situation, so to speak -- especially in a physical, spatial, urban sense. There are two things that I'd like to know about, one that happened today, the other that's happened recently and elsewhere. I'm looking to talk to people whose (sub)urban movements were affected by the AT&T lines being cut -- did you or someone you know need to move around Silicon Valley differently because of the phone, Internet, data and 911 outage? This is what I mean: http://bit.ly/1R4c1g I should mention I'm also very, very keen to hear about people's experiences in India, Pakistan or Bangladesh where the government shuts down mobile networks (as in Pakistan in 2007), Bangladesh (last week with YouTube: http://bit.ly/r81Y) or India (3 million fewer Internet users thanks to new requirement for photo ID to use cybercafes: http://bit.ly/3h8jWS). One way this happens is as an anti- terrorism move, but it also happens when the government wants to try to silence its citizens or stop the spread of information. Outcome of this will be academic (paper for a class I'm taking in my architecture PhD program at Princeton) -- but I think there's something to it that would make a good article for a wider outfit sometime soon or a conference paper. Please forward accordingly if you might know of someone I could talk to. Cheers, Molly --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
