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Calling all “Fiberhoods”: Google Fiber and the Politics of Visibility
dc.contributor.author | Halegoua, Germaine R. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-11-19T15:44:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-11-19T15:44:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Halegoua, G. "Calling All 'fiberhoods': Google Fiber and the Politics of Visibility." International Journal of Cultural Studies 18.3 (2014): 311-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367877913513690 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18943 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. Copyright 2015 SAGE Publications | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This essay examines the promise of transformation and initial outcomes of Google’s “Fiber for Communities” project in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. Through a discourse analysis of industry and popular press, press releases, Google’s official blog and YouTube channel, and user-generated content from Kansas City residents from 2010-2012, the essay highlights the ways in which Google promised to transform the image and significance of Kansas City, upgrade experiences of internet access and use, and experiment with new deployment models for large scale fiber optic infrastructure in the US. However, the author focuses on how the process of transformation rendered certain pre-existing digital divides and inequities more visible rather than erasing them. | en_US |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | en_US |
dc.subject | Google Fiber | en_US |
dc.subject | Broadband infrastructure | en_US |
dc.subject | Urban informatics | en_US |
dc.subject | Kansas City | en_US |
dc.subject | Transformation | en_US |
dc.title | Calling all “Fiberhoods”: Google Fiber and the Politics of Visibility | en_US |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Halegoua, Germain R. | |
kusw.kudepartment | Film and Media Studies | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/1367877913513690 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |