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Media type:
Book
Title:
Signal traffic
:
critical studies of media infrastructures
Contains:
Part I. Compression, Storage, DistributionCompression : 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 Cybercafé 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.
Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
"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"--