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Created in China: the makings of China's hackerspace community

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Community + Culture features practitioner perspectives on designing technologies for and with communities. We highlight compelling projects and provocative points of view that speak to both community technology practice and the interaction design field as a whole. Christopher A. Le Dantec

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cover image Interactions
Interactions  Volume 19, Issue 6
November + December 2012
82 pages
ISSN:1072-5520
EISSN:1558-3449
DOI:10.1145/2377783
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