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The generation that was argued with

A subject the papers are about. The loosest grouping, and the one to reach for last.

Five readings of 5G that are not about radio: the technical roadmap, a conspiracy theory tracked across a social network, a study of what makes people say they will adopt it, a European assessment of military use, and a local news report of the masts being burned. The first generation of mobile network to be argued about as an object in the world rather than as a standard — and the last of these is where the argument stopped being about the object at all: arson on masts in west Belfast in 2025, five years after the conspiracy Ahmed tracked.

5 references

Health Trust and Ambulance Service say phonelines unaffected by 5G mast fire
BBC News (2025)
Opportunities and Risks of 5G Military Use in Europe
Mary Lee and others (2023) · RAND Corporation · RAND Corporation
5G, 6G, and Beyond: Recent advances and future challenges
Fatima Salahdine and others (2023) · Annals of Telecommunications
How the theory of planned behaviour and flow theory contribute to the acceptance of 5G technology
Morteza Akbari and others (2022) · European J. of International Management · Inderscience Publishers
COVID-19 and the 5G Conspiracy Theory: Social Network Analysis of Twitter Data
Wasim Ahmed and others (2020) · Journal of Medical Internet Research · JMIR Publications Inc.