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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农村孤岛性作为（农村）人机交互的镜头

本文有助于旨在更好地理解和描述农村计算的农村背景的研究。我们认为，“孤岛”的体验增强了乡村的特殊性。我们报告了我们在一个小岛上参与的经历，因为岛民使用一个新颖的平台建立了社区广播。数据来自对社区成员的 12 次半结构化访谈，以及通过 8 名研究人员访问该岛收集的人种学实地记录。使用主题分析对成绩单和笔记进行分析。我们讨论了作为社会文化视角的农村孤岛如何影响技术拨款和支持参与的因素。我们探索了农村孤岛的元素，这些元素可以用作农村人机交互和更广泛的人机交互的分析工具，通过我们认为尚未在 HCI 中充分探索的农村孤岛的三个主要贡献。它们是（1）分离，（2）推动事物，以及（3）公众和农村多元化。