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Fragile connections: Community computer networks, human infrastructures, and the consequences of their breakdown in Havana.

To compensate for their lack of internet access, Cuban video game enthusiasts and programmers have built vast grassroots computer networks, the biggest of which, SNET (Street Network), at one point connected tens of thousands of households across Havana. This vernacular infrastructure generated not...

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Published in:American Anthropologist Vol. 124; no. 2; pp. 383 - 399
Main Authors: Köhn, Steffen, Siré, Nestor
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jun2022
Subjects:
Cuba
Havana (Cuba)
Computer networks
Internet access
Video game culture
Ideology
Video games
Human beings
Subjectivity
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