Hirsch, Tad2017-04-152017-04-152009In this paper, I describe how various understandings of community activated the design of Dialup Radio, a mobile phone-based independent media distribution system for Zimbabwean civil society and human rights activists. I identify three distinct communities and discuss their influence on the design process. Finally, I consider the challenges activist designers face in simultaneously addressing the needs of present-day users and the imagined future communities their projects hope to create.enCommunities real and imagined: designing a communication system for zimbabwean activistsText10.1145/1556460.1556472