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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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