Popup Networks: Creating Decentralized Social Media on Top of Commodity Wireless Routers

dc.contributor.authorHiruncharoenvate, Chaya
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Wesley
dc.contributor.authorEdwards, W. Keith
dc.contributor.authorGilbert, Eric
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-17T22:48:33Z
dc.date.available2023-03-17T22:48:33Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractRecent news has made social media notorious for both abusing user data and allowing governments to scrutinize personal information. Nevertheless, people still enjoy connecting with friends and families through social media but fail to use it to connect to local communities where we live our daily lives. In this paper, we present Popup Networks, a new platform for building hyper-local social computing applications, running on home wireless routers via an underlying mesh network. Summative interviews illustrate interests in using Popup Networks to create new local ties and as a backup in the case of Internet disruption. By utilizing locality to ward off external risks, Popup Networks provide alternative privacy, visibility, and economic models compared to traditional social media. While deploying Popup Networks would be an ideal evaluation, we argue that the technical tests and user interviews we conducted are suitable for socially complex systems such as Popup Networks--advocating an agenda moving forward for social computing systems research.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1145/2957276.2957285
dc.identifier.urihttps://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/4450
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work
dc.subjectinternet censorship
dc.subjectmesh networks
dc.subjectsocial capital
dc.subjectsocial computing
dc.titlePopup Networks: Creating Decentralized Social Media on Top of Commodity Wireless Routersen
dc.typeText/Conference Paper
gi.citation.startPage149–158
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gi.conference.locationSanibel Island, Florida, USA

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