Editorial

This book surveys a group of terrains central to the emergence of Wireless Networks providing a careful insight on political, technical, legal and artistic concerns about what it means to populate the electromagnetic field with wireless waves.
This publication debates and focuses on the construction of open networks which use wireless technology without rejecting the possibilities now staring to be available concerning the use of optical fiber. The concept of open network refers to the use of any technology providing a sustainable solution which allows increasing degrees of freedom for knowing, accessing and modifying a telecommunication network.
Communication has become central to our information societies. Nevertheless, boundaries between public policy, engineering, urban planning and activist groups are constantly being shaped by agreements or disagreements on how, why and who should be able to build, manage and access telecommunication infrastructures. There are different ways to face the existing diversity within Europe as far as its legal, methodological and conceptual nature, despite common European directives.
Whether we think of a scarce resource to be regulated by a restricted cluster of actors or by an open spectrum, it remains unclear how these different actors interact and posit their arguments.Read full Editorial

Edited by: Yann Bona + Efraín Foglia.
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