Tilting at 5G Towers: Rethinking Infrastructural Transition in 2020
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چکیده
5G has the potential to expand horizons of digital inclusion by providing higher speeds, lower latency, and support for more devices on a given network. However, mis‐ disinformation about proliferated in recent years stands be persistent barrier adoption this generation wireless technologies. After rumours linking Covid‐19 emerged wake pandemic, isolated actors attempted disrupt infrastructure with perceived connection 5G. Media coverage these incidents inadvertently spread such claims, engendering lasting uncertainty Infrastructure scholars have long held maxim that “the normally invisible quality working becomes visible when it breaks” (Star, 1999, p. 482), but efforts interpret uptake struggled define technical difference makes describe diffused acts anti‐5G sentiment exploited its slippery symbolic associations. What broke make so visible? This article reassesses interference through lens literary metaphor derived from Miguel de Cervantes’ epic novel Don Quixote. Using Don’s famed joust windmills, I examine what development 2020 can tell us infrastructural transition. With reference Quixote’s tilt, contend disruptions illustrate conflicting imperatives exclusion underlying neoliberal schemes telecommunication development.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Social Inclusion
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2183-2803']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i3.6741