Rural Islandness as a Lens for (Rural) HCI

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ROBINSON Sarah BIDWELL Nicola J CIBIN Roberto LINEHAN Conor MAYE Laura MCCARTHY John PANTIDI Nadia TELI Maurizio

Rok publikování 2021
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Citace
www https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3443704
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3443704
Popis This article contributes to research that aims to better understand and describe the rural context for rural computing. We argue that the particularities of rurality are heightened by the experience of ‘islandness’. We report on our experiences of engaging on one small island as islanders established community radio using a novel platform. Data comes from 12 semi-structured interviews with community members and ethnographic field notes assembled through eight researcher visits to the island. Transcripts and notes were analysed using thematic analysis. We discuss how rural islandness as a socio-cultural lens influenced technology appropriation and factors to support participation. We explore the elements of rural islandness that can be used as an analytic tool for rural HCI and HCI more broadly, through three main contributions of rural islandness that we believe have not yet been sufficiently explored in HCI. These are (1) separateness, (2) pushing things ahead, and (3) publics and rural pluralities.

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