1. Parasite Users? The Volunteer Mapping of Cycling Infrastructures
- Author
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Denis, Jérôme, Pontille, David, Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information (LTCI), Télécom ParisTech-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation i3 (CSI i3), MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and A. Mongili, G. Pellegrino
- Subjects
[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology ,infrastructure ,Openstreetmap ,GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries) ,Volunteered geographic information ,Users ,Bicycling - Abstract
International audience; This chapter aims at understanding the place of users in the online discussions between Openstreetmap contributors who map cycling infrastructures. Drawing on an analysis of the mailing list of the French forum of Openstreetmap, we show that contributors deal with different kinds of users' instantiations. We describe how these contributors try to avoid any attachement to one or another category of users, which would threaten their ideal of "universality".
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- 2014