Gentrification in the mesh?: An ethnography of Open Wireless Network (OWN) in Deptford

City

Volumn 21, Issue 3-4, 2017, Pages 405-419

  Cardullo, Paolo ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

civic hacking; displacement; ethnography; gentrification; wireless networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020473702     PISSN: 13604813     EISSN: 14703629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1325236     Document Type: Article

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