François Bar
Biographic Data
| ID | 370357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | François Bar |
| GIVEN NAMES | François |
| FAMILY NAME | Bar |
| SIGNATURE | BAR F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1812-5763 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Can affordable internet increase employment opportunities for low-income workers? Evidence from the Affordable Connectivity Program
This study investigates the labor market impacts of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), the largest U.S. initiative to date aimed at reducing income-based disparities in Internet access. We assess ACP’s effects on labor force participation and employment and test the hypothesis that a key impact mechanism is the expansion of remote work opportunities for program recipients. Using large-scale national datasets, we also explore heterogeneity…
Urban furniture in digital placemaking: Adapting a storytelling payphone across Los Angeles
A growing number of urban practitioners and scholars are interested in using digital storytelling to strengthen neighborhood connections to shared culture and build a coherent sense of place. This article contributes to this discussion by investigating how ‘urban furniture’ can sustain social capacity for digital placemaking. While traditional ‘urban furniture’ in public space is purely physical, digital-physical hybrids are emerging, from benche…
The power divide: Mobile communication in Los Angeles’ Skid Row
This study explores mobile phone use among people experiencing homelessness in downtown Los Angeles. It explores usage patterns and connectivity challenges, and how these affect access to social services as well as opportunities for information seeking, skills building, and social capital formation. To characterize the unreliable conditions under which this population uses mobile phones, we introduce the concept of access instability to capture n…
The diffusion of misinformation on social media: Temporal pattern, message, and source
Beyond Big Bird, Binders, and Bayonets: Humor and Visibility Among Connected Viewers of the 2012 US Presidential Debates
During the 2012 US presidential debates, more than five million connected viewers turned to social media to respond to the broadcast and talk politics with one another. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study examines the prevalence of humor and its relationship to visibility among connected viewers live-tweeting the debates. Based on a content analysis of tweets and accounts, we estimate that approximately one-fifth of the messages sent durin…
Mobile Voices: Design as a method to explore the possibilities and limitations of community participation
Despite the growing significance of mobile devices, especially among marginalized communities, there are few explorations of how participatory design (PD) can be applied to mobile communication technologies. This case study of Mobile Voices (VozMob) explores a community-based approach to PD and its potential to promote the participation of groups typically marginalized from the design process, and to empower users. VozMob is a mobile platform tha…
Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror: Baroquization, creolization, and cannibalism
Appropriation is the process through which technology users go beyond mere adoption to make technology their own and to embed it within their social, economic, and political practices. The appropriation process is a negotiation about power and control over the configuration of technology, its uses, and the distribution of its benefits. The negotiation surrounding technology appropriation echoes earlier creative tensions in the New World regarding…
Mobile Design as Neighborhood Acupuncture: Activating the Storytelling Networks of South Los Angeles
A delicate touch is required to empower neighborhoods using civic media. Funding is persistently scarce. Especially in marginalized neighborhoods, blunt designs can be counterproductive and even entrench complex problems. New metaphors may be needed to guide design and empower local neighborhoods. Urban acupuncture is used as the basis for this study, emphasizing a light-touch strategy that has shown success in Brazil with urban transit, and more…
Announcing Itid 2.0
Assessing the Impact of Public Access to ICTs
US communication policy after convergence
The laws and policies that govern communication in the US have evolved over time to treat different media with distinct doctrines. The press, the post, broadcasting and the telephone each abide by different rules, defining who can build and operate the underlying communication systems, who can use them, along what patterns, to convey what information. As these regimes evolved, they adjusted to reflect social, political, economic and technological…
The Emergence of Clusters in the Global Telecommunications Network
Studies of international telecommunication networks in past years have found increases in density, centralization, and integration. More recent studies, however, have identified trends of decentralization and regionalization. The present research examines these structural changes in international telephone traffic among 110 countries between 1989 and 1999. It examines the competing theoretical models of core–periphery and cluster structures. The …
The Microtelco Opportunity: Evidence from Latin America
ICT networks and services are not effectively reaching the poor, particularly those living in rural areas. Public subsidies for traditional operators to cover the difference between tariffs and cost-recovery levels have proved limited in addressing this continuing gap. This article explores the role that could be played by a largely unnoticed set of actors we call microtelcos¿small-scale telecom operators that combine local entrepreneurship, inno…
Wireless Communication and Development: Micro and Macro Linkages
This issue of ITID brings together ave perspectives on the role wireless technologies can play in the deployment of communication infrastructure and services throughout developing regions. They were selected from the papers presented at the workshop Wireless Communication and Development: A Global Perspective, organized by the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication, at the University of Southern California, in October 2005.1 Hi…
Tapping User-Driven Innovation: A New Rationale for Universal Service
The current transformation of communication policies, as governments turn to the marketplace as the driver of network evolution, requires a redefinition of universal service. The debate so far has focused primarily on the elaboration of new funding mechanisms and the definition of which services should be covered. We argue that a more fundamental, third area demands attention: the articulation of a new rationale for universal service itself. With…
De l'accès public aux connections privées: Politique De Réseaux Et Intérêt National
Bar François, Borrus Michael. De l'accès public aux connections privées : politique de réseaux et intérêt national. In: Réseaux, volume 8, n°41, 1990. Entreprise, organisation, communication. pp. 19-40
Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror: Baroquization, creolization, and cannibalism
Appropriation is the process through which technology users go beyond mere adoption to make technology their own and to embed it within their social, economic, and political practices. The appropriation process is a negotiation about power and control over the configuration of technology, its uses, and the distribution of its benefits. The negotiation surrounding technology appropriation echoes earlier creative tensions in the New World regarding…
US communication policy after convergence
The laws and policies that govern communication in the US have evolved over time to treat different media with distinct doctrines. The press, the post, broadcasting and the telephone each abide by different rules, defining who can build and operate the underlying communication systems, who can use them, along what patterns, to convey what information. As these regimes evolved, they adjusted to reflect social, political, economic and technological…
Beyond Big Bird, Binders, and Bayonets: Humor and Visibility Among Connected Viewers of the 2012 US Presidential Debates
During the 2012 US presidential debates, more than five million connected viewers turned to social media to respond to the broadcast and talk politics with one another. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study examines the prevalence of humor and its relationship to visibility among connected viewers live-tweeting the debates. Based on a content analysis of tweets and accounts, we estimate that approximately one-fifth of the messages sent durin…
The power divide: Mobile communication in Los Angeles’ Skid Row
This study explores mobile phone use among people experiencing homelessness in downtown Los Angeles. It explores usage patterns and connectivity challenges, and how these affect access to social services as well as opportunities for information seeking, skills building, and social capital formation. To characterize the unreliable conditions under which this population uses mobile phones, we introduce the concept of access instability to capture n…
Mobile Voices: Design as a method to explore the possibilities and limitations of community participation
Despite the growing significance of mobile devices, especially among marginalized communities, there are few explorations of how participatory design (PD) can be applied to mobile communication technologies. This case study of Mobile Voices (VozMob) explores a community-based approach to PD and its potential to promote the participation of groups typically marginalized from the design process, and to empower users. VozMob is a mobile platform tha…
Tapping User-Driven Innovation: A New Rationale for Universal Service
The current transformation of communication policies, as governments turn to the marketplace as the driver of network evolution, requires a redefinition of universal service. The debate so far has focused primarily on the elaboration of new funding mechanisms and the definition of which services should be covered. We argue that a more fundamental, third area demands attention: the articulation of a new rationale for universal service itself. With…
De l'accès public aux connections privées: Politique De Réseaux Et Intérêt National
Bar François, Borrus Michael. De l'accès public aux connections privées : politique de réseaux et intérêt national. In: Réseaux, volume 8, n°41, 1990. Entreprise, organisation, communication. pp. 19-40
Tapping User-Driven Innovation: A New Rationale for Universal Service
The current transformation of communication policies, as governments turn to the marketplace as the driver of network evolution, requires a redefinition of universal service. The debate so far has focused primarily on the elaboration of new funding mechanisms and the definition of which services should be covered. We argue that a more fundamental, third area demands attention: the articulation of a new rationale for universal service itself. With…
The Emergence of Clusters in the Global Telecommunications Network
Studies of international telecommunication networks in past years have found increases in density, centralization, and integration. More recent studies, however, have identified trends of decentralization and regionalization. The present research examines these structural changes in international telephone traffic among 110 countries between 1989 and 1999. It examines the competing theoretical models of core–periphery and cluster structures. The …
The Microtelco Opportunity: Evidence from Latin America
ICT networks and services are not effectively reaching the poor, particularly those living in rural areas. Public subsidies for traditional operators to cover the difference between tariffs and cost-recovery levels have proved limited in addressing this continuing gap. This article explores the role that could be played by a largely unnoticed set of actors we call microtelcos¿small-scale telecom operators that combine local entrepreneurship, inno…
Wireless Communication and Development: Micro and Macro Linkages
This issue of ITID brings together ave perspectives on the role wireless technologies can play in the deployment of communication infrastructure and services throughout developing regions. They were selected from the papers presented at the workshop Wireless Communication and Development: A Global Perspective, organized by the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication, at the University of Southern California, in October 2005.1 Hi…
Announcing Itid 2.0
Assessing the Impact of Public Access to ICTs
US communication policy after convergence
The laws and policies that govern communication in the US have evolved over time to treat different media with distinct doctrines. The press, the post, broadcasting and the telephone each abide by different rules, defining who can build and operate the underlying communication systems, who can use them, along what patterns, to convey what information. As these regimes evolved, they adjusted to reflect social, political, economic and technological…
Mobile Design as Neighborhood Acupuncture: Activating the Storytelling Networks of South Los Angeles
A delicate touch is required to empower neighborhoods using civic media. Funding is persistently scarce. Especially in marginalized neighborhoods, blunt designs can be counterproductive and even entrench complex problems. New metaphors may be needed to guide design and empower local neighborhoods. Urban acupuncture is used as the basis for this study, emphasizing a light-touch strategy that has shown success in Brazil with urban transit, and more…
Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror: Baroquization, creolization, and cannibalism
Appropriation is the process through which technology users go beyond mere adoption to make technology their own and to embed it within their social, economic, and political practices. The appropriation process is a negotiation about power and control over the configuration of technology, its uses, and the distribution of its benefits. The negotiation surrounding technology appropriation echoes earlier creative tensions in the New World regarding…
Mobile Voices: Design as a method to explore the possibilities and limitations of community participation
Despite the growing significance of mobile devices, especially among marginalized communities, there are few explorations of how participatory design (PD) can be applied to mobile communication technologies. This case study of Mobile Voices (VozMob) explores a community-based approach to PD and its potential to promote the participation of groups typically marginalized from the design process, and to empower users. VozMob is a mobile platform tha…
The diffusion of misinformation on social media: Temporal pattern, message, and source
Beyond Big Bird, Binders, and Bayonets: Humor and Visibility Among Connected Viewers of the 2012 US Presidential Debates
During the 2012 US presidential debates, more than five million connected viewers turned to social media to respond to the broadcast and talk politics with one another. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study examines the prevalence of humor and its relationship to visibility among connected viewers live-tweeting the debates. Based on a content analysis of tweets and accounts, we estimate that approximately one-fifth of the messages sent durin…
The power divide: Mobile communication in Los Angeles’ Skid Row
This study explores mobile phone use among people experiencing homelessness in downtown Los Angeles. It explores usage patterns and connectivity challenges, and how these affect access to social services as well as opportunities for information seeking, skills building, and social capital formation. To characterize the unreliable conditions under which this population uses mobile phones, we introduce the concept of access instability to capture n…
Urban furniture in digital placemaking: Adapting a storytelling payphone across Los Angeles
A growing number of urban practitioners and scholars are interested in using digital storytelling to strengthen neighborhood connections to shared culture and build a coherent sense of place. This article contributes to this discussion by investigating how ‘urban furniture’ can sustain social capacity for digital placemaking. While traditional ‘urban furniture’ in public space is purely physical, digital-physical hybrids are emerging, from benche…
Can affordable internet increase employment opportunities for low-income workers? Evidence from the Affordable Connectivity Program
This study investigates the labor market impacts of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), the largest U.S. initiative to date aimed at reducing income-based disparities in Internet access. We assess ACP’s effects on labor force participation and employment and test the hypothesis that a key impact mechanism is the expansion of remote work opportunities for program recipients. Using large-scale national datasets, we also explore heterogeneity…
Computer Science (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Business (8 works) · ICT Impact and Policies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Telecommunications (4 works)