The use of private mobile phones at war: Accounts from the Donbas conflict
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The use of private mobile phones at war : Accounts from the Donbas conflict. / Shklovski, Irina; Wulf, Volker.
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T1 - The use of private mobile phones at war
T2 - 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018
AU - Shklovski, Irina
AU - Wulf, Volker
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2018 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).
PY - 2018/4/20
Y1 - 2018/4/20
N2 - Studying technology use in unstable and life-threatening conditions can help highlight assumptions of use built into technologies and foreground contradictions in the design of devices and services. This paper provides an account of how soldiers, volunteers, and civilians use mobile technologies in wartime, reporting on fieldwork conducted in Western Russia and Eastern Ukraine with people close to or participating directly in the armed conflict in the Donbas region. We document how private mobile phones and computers became a crucial but ambiguous infrastructure despite their lack of durability in extreme conditions of a military conflict, and their government and military surveillance potential. Our participants rely on a combination of myths and significant technical knowledge to negotiate the possibilities mobile technologies offer and the lifethreatening reality of enemy surveillance they engender. We consider the problems of always-on always-connected devices under conditions of war and surveillance and our responsibilities as HCI practitioners in the design of social technologies.
AB - Studying technology use in unstable and life-threatening conditions can help highlight assumptions of use built into technologies and foreground contradictions in the design of devices and services. This paper provides an account of how soldiers, volunteers, and civilians use mobile technologies in wartime, reporting on fieldwork conducted in Western Russia and Eastern Ukraine with people close to or participating directly in the armed conflict in the Donbas region. We document how private mobile phones and computers became a crucial but ambiguous infrastructure despite their lack of durability in extreme conditions of a military conflict, and their government and military surveillance potential. Our participants rely on a combination of myths and significant technical knowledge to negotiate the possibilities mobile technologies offer and the lifethreatening reality of enemy surveillance they engender. We consider the problems of always-on always-connected devices under conditions of war and surveillance and our responsibilities as HCI practitioners in the design of social technologies.
KW - Appropriation
KW - Field study
KW - ICT infrastructures
KW - Mobile media
KW - Political conflict
KW - War
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85046974468&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3173574.3173960
DO - 10.1145/3173574.3173960
M3 - Article in proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85046974468
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 21 April 2018 through 26 April 2018
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