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Conflict in a digital place |
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| Published in | First Monday. 2017, vol. 22, no. 12, 28 | |
| Abstract | This paper discusses the issue of conflict over the Internet. It focuses on situations where disagreements between users connect with specific choices in the design of a digital infrastructure, and it argues that engagement in design activities can be used as a tool to analyse and probe such issues. It presents an ethnographic study of VOCI, a community of students based in Syria that witnessed a major conflict between its core members during the early 2010s. This conflict evolved around issues of control and governance, and eventually translated into a shared concern of how access and ownership of digital places are configured. This article introduces the design of Modus, a platform for shared proprietary rights over the Internet, as an alternative way to manage digital ownership. | |
| Keywords | Conflict — HCI Design — Digital Ownership — Community Informatics — Infrastructure Studies — Syria | |
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Article (Accepted version) (1.5 MB) - Free access Other version: http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/8043 |
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| Citation (ISO format) | HALABI, Ammar, ZIMMERMANN, Basile, COURANT, Michèle. Conflict in a digital place. In: First Monday, 2017, vol. 22, n° 12, p. 28. doi: 10.5210/fm.v22i12.8043 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:101954 |
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