向5G塔倾斜:重新思考2020年的基础设施转型

IF 1.2 3区 社会学 Q2 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY
Rory Sharp
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5G有潜力通过提供更高的速度、更低的延迟和在给定网络上支持更多设备来扩大数字包容的范围。然而,近年来,关于5G的错误和虚假信息激增,并将成为采用这一代无线技术的持续障碍。在疫情爆发后,有关5G与Covid - 19有关的谣言出现后,孤立的行为者试图通过与5G的连接来破坏基础设施。媒体对这些事件的报道无意中传播了这样的说法,给5G带来了持久的不确定性。长期以来,基础设施学者一直坚持这样的格言:“正常运行的基础设施的不可见质量在其损坏时变得可见”(Star, 1999,第482页),但解释误传和虚假信息吸收的努力一直在努力定义5G所带来的技术差异,并描述利用其模糊的象征关联的反5G情绪的扩散行为。是什么让5G如此引人注目?本文通过米格尔·德·塞万提斯史诗小说《堂吉诃德》中的文学隐喻,重新评估了对基础设施的干扰。通过老唐与风车的著名较量,我研究了2020年破坏5G发展的努力可以告诉我们关于基础设施转型的什么。关于堂吉诃德的倾向,我认为2020年的混乱说明了新自由主义电信发展计划中包容和排斥的冲突必要性。
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Tilting at 5G Towers: Rethinking Infrastructural Transition in 2020
5G has the potential to expand the horizons of digital inclusion by providing higher speeds, lower latency, and support for more devices on a given network. However, mis‐ and disinformation about 5G has proliferated in recent years and stands to be a persistent barrier to the adoption of this generation of wireless technologies. After rumours linking 5G to Covid‐19 emerged in the wake of the pandemic, isolated actors attempted to disrupt infrastructure with a perceived connection to 5G. Media coverage of these incidents inadvertently spread such claims, engendering lasting uncertainty about 5G. Infrastructure scholars have long held to the maxim that “the normally invisible quality of working infrastructure becomes visible when it breaks” (Star, 1999, p. 482), but efforts to interpret the uptake of mis‐ and disinformation have struggled to define the technical difference 5G makes and describe diffused acts of anti‐5G sentiment that exploited its slippery symbolic associations. What broke to make 5G so visible? This article reassesses interference with infrastructure through the lens of a literary metaphor derived from Miguel de Cervantes’ epic novel Don Quixote. Using the Don’s famed joust with windmills, I examine what efforts to disrupt the development of 5G in 2020 can tell us about infrastructural transition. With reference to Quixote’s tilt, I contend that the disruptions of 2020 illustrate conflicting imperatives of inclusion and exclusion underlying neoliberal schemes of telecommunication development.
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Social Inclusion
Social Inclusion Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science
CiteScore
3.50
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0.00%
发文量
114
审稿时长
15 weeks
期刊介绍: Social Inclusion is a peer-reviewed open access journal, which provides academics and policy-makers with a forum to discuss and promote a more socially inclusive society. The journal encourages researchers to publish their results on topics concerning social and cultural cohesiveness, marginalized social groups, social stratification, minority-majority interaction, cultural diversity, national identity, and core-periphery relations, while making significant contributions to the understanding and enhancement of social inclusion worldwide. Social Inclusion aims at being an interdisciplinary journal, covering a broad range of topics, such as immigration, poverty, education, minorities, disability, discrimination, and inequality, with a special focus on studies which discuss solutions, strategies and models for social inclusion. Social Inclusion invites contributions from a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds and specializations, inter alia sociology, political science, international relations, history, cultural studies, geography, media studies, educational studies, communication science, and language studies. We welcome conceptual analysis, historical perspectives, and investigations based on empirical findings, while accepting regular research articles, review articles, commentaries, and reviews.
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