Scientific article
OA Policy
French

Conflict in a digital place

Published inFirst Monday, vol. 22, no. 12, 28
Publication date2017
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
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
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Journal ISSN1396-0466
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