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Signal traffic : critical studies of media infrastructures / / edited by Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski ; contributors, Charles R. Acland [and eleven others]



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Titolo: Signal traffic : critical studies of media infrastructures / / edited by Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski ; contributors, Charles R. Acland [and eleven others] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Urbana, Chicago ; ; Chicago, [Illinois] ; ; Springfield, [Illinois] : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 292 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 303.4833
Soggetto topico: Telecommunication systems - Social aspects
Digital media - Social aspects
Mass media - Social aspects
Information superhighway
Computer networks - Social aspects
Information networks - Social aspects
Telecommunication - Traffic
Signal processing
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Persona (resp. second.): ParksLisa
StarosielskiNicole <1984->
AclandCharles R. <1963->
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
Titolo autorizzato: Signal traffic  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-252-08087-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910463477003321
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Serie: Geopolitics of information.