  We propose a mixed-methods approach to understanding the human infrastructure
underlying StreetNet (SNET), a distributed, community-run intranet that serves
as the primary 'Internet' in Havana, Cuba. We bridge ethnographic studies and
the study of social networks and organizations to understand the way that power
is embedded in the structure of Havana's SNET. By quantitatively and
qualitatively unpacking the human infrastructure of SNET, this work reveals how
distributed infrastructure necessarily embeds the structural aspects of
inequality distributed within that infrastructure. While traditional technical
measurements of networks reflect the social, organizational, spatial, and
technical constraints that shape the resulting network, ethnographies can help
uncover the texture and role of these hidden supporting relationships. By
merging these perspectives, this work contributes to our understanding of
network roles in growing and maintaining distributed infrastructures, revealing
new approaches to understanding larger, more complex Internet-human
infrastructures---including the Internet and the WWW.
