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Public perceptions of networked infrastructure
Local Environment ( IF 3.590 ) Pub Date : 2020-11-25 , DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2020.1845131
Katy Roelich 1 , Nina Litman-Roventa 1, 2
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ABSTRACT Infrastructure is crucial to the functioning of society and the economy. Yet, to avoid precipitating environmental breakdown, it must undergo transformation. We argue that citizens who rely on infrastructure’s services should have a say in how transformation is managed. However, the complex nature of infrastructure means that public dialogue is difficult and rarely done well. Infrastructure has several characteristics, which make elicitation of perceptions challenging: it is connective, relational, obdurate, collective and subject to fragmented governance. We held a series of deliberative workshops in a city in the UK, to examine how public perceptions of infrastructure are shaped by these characteristics. We found that using infrastructure’s characteristics as a framework for deliberation built participants’ capabilities to articulate perceptions of infrastructure. We argue that using these characteristics also placed more emphasis on the socio-materiality of infrastructure and can address the disconnect between scales of participation and scales of decision making. This offers an alternative way to debate the desirable attributes of infrastructure, which we argue is more productive and inclusive.

中文翻译:

公众对网络基础设施的看法

摘要 基础设施对社会和经济的运作至关重要。然而,为了避免环境恶化,它必须经历转型。我们认为,依赖基础设施服务的公民应该对如何管理转型拥有发言权。然而,基础设施的复杂性意味着公众对话很困难,而且很少做得很好。基础设施有几个特点,这使得感知的产生具有挑战性:它是连接的、相关的、顽固的、集体的,并且受制于碎片化的治理。我们在英国的一个城市举办了一系列协商研讨会,以研究这些特征如何影响公众对基础设施的看法。我们发现,使用基础设施的特征作为审议框架可以培养参与者表达对基础设施看法的能力。我们认为,使用这些特征也更加强调基础设施的社会物质性,可以解决参与规模与决策规模之间的脱节。这提供了另一种方式来讨论基础设施的理想属性,我们认为它更具生产力和包容性。
更新日期:2020-11-25
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