HCI researchers are increasingly conducting research in rural communities. This paper
interrogates how rurality has been treated in previous HCI research conducted in developed …

Researching and designing Internet infrastructure solutions in rural and tribal contexts
requires reciprocal relationships between researchers and community partners …

Researchers in various fields have been discussing the ethics of field research, particularly
their responsibility to provide concrete benefits to participants. For example, when designing …

In the 2018 US midterm elections, a record number of Native American candidates ran for
office at all levels of government. To better understand how these 104 candidates …

Disruption to routines is an increasingly common part of everyday life. With the roots of some
disruptions in the interconnectedness of the world and environmental and socio-political …

The American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) community stands poised to take control of
their cultural imagery and image-power through image-heavy social media platforms. Extant …

Despite efforts towards pervasive, high-speed broadband connectivity, users worldwide
continue to experience a persistent multinetwork reality–a reality of intermittent Internet …

Technological mediation describes the process where internet service providers (ISPs)
translate telecommunications network innovations from the “technological frontier” to their …

Homes located on tribal lands, particularly in rural areas of the United States, continue to
lack access to broadband Internet and cellular connectivity [19]. Inspired by previous …

Abstract Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have achieved a global reach,
particularly in social groups within the 'Global North,'such as those within the province of …