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Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures

Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures

Starosielski, Nicole
Acland, Charles R.
Parks, Lisa

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Series: Geopolitics of Information

Business GeneralGeneral ReferenceTechnology & Engineering

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ISBN10: 0252080874
ISBN13: 9780252080876
Publisher: Univ Of Illinois Pr
Published: Jun 1 2015
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.96 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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.

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