Bibliograph

Signal traffic, critical studies of media infrastructures, edited by Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski

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Signal traffic, critical studies of media infrastructures, edited by Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Signal traffic

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

edited by Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski

Series statement

The geopolitics of information

Sub title

critical studies of media infrastructures

Summary

"The contributors to Signal Traffic investigate how the material artifacts of media infrastructure--transoceanic cables, mobile telephone towers, Internet data centers, and the like--intersect with everyday life. Essayists confront the multiple and hybrid forms networks take, the different ways networks are imagined and engaged with by publics around the world, their local effects, and what human beings experience when a network fails. Some contributors explore the physical objects and industrial relations that make up an infrastructure. Others venture into the marginalized communities orphaned from the knowledge economies, technological literacies, and epistemological questions linked to infrastructural formation and use. The wide-ranging insights delineate the oft-ignored contrasts between industrialized and developing regions, rich and poor areas, and urban and rural settings, bringing technological differences into focus. Contributors include Charles R. Acland, Paul Dourish, Sarah Harris, Jennifer Holt and Patrick Vonderau, Shannon Mattern, Toby Miller, Lisa Parks, Christian Sandvig, Nicole Starosielski, Jonathan Sterne, and Helga Tawil-Souri"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Part I. Compression, Storage, Distribution -- Compression : A Loose History / Jonathan Sterne -- Fixed Flow : Undersea Cables as Media Infrastructure / Nicole Starosielski -- "Where the Internet Lives" : Data Centers as Cloud Infrastructure / Jennifer Holt and Patrick Vonderau -- Deep Time of Media Infrastructure / Shannon Mattern -- Part II. Resources, Environments, Geopolitics -- Water, Energy, Access : Materializing the Internet in Rural Zambia / Lisa Parks -- The Art of Waste : Contemporary Culture and Unsustainable Energy Use / Toby Miller -- Cellular Borders : Dis/Connecting Phone Calls in Israel-Palestine / Helga Tawil-Souri -- Part III. Content, Protocols, Platforms -- Protocols, Packets, and Proximity : The Materiality of Internet Routing / Paul Dourish -- Service Providers as Digital Media Infrastructure : Turkey's Cybercafe Operators / Sarah Harris -- The Internet as the Anti-Television : Distribution Infrastructure as Culture and Power / Christian Sandvig -- Consumer Electronics and the Building of an Entertainment Infrastructure / Charles R. Acland

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