5th June 2012

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kthread: buzz: roomthily: The politics of SSIDs using OpenSignalMaps mapping political sentiment through router names I’ve always been amused and fascinated by the way people use WIFI SSIDs as a sort of hidden graffiti. This was/is also in my dissertation. It tells us more than just political affiliation. Oh, sometimes I think I should just get a book contract and write the thing. I screenshot the SSID names everywhere I go - 

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roomthily:

The politics of SSIDs using OpenSignalMaps

mapping political sentiment through router names

I’ve always been amused and fascinated by the way people use WIFI SSIDs as a sort of hidden graffiti.

This was/is also in my dissertation. It tells us more than just political affiliation. Oh, sometimes I think I should just get a book contract and write the thing. I screenshot the SSID names everywhere I go - 

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