Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures (The Geopolitics of Information) - Softcover

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9780252080876: Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures (The Geopolitics of Information)
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ISBN 10: 0252080874 ISBN 13: 9780252080876
Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Lisa Parks is director of the Center for Information Technology and Society, professor of film and media studies at University of California at Santa Barbara, and winner of a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship. She is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual. Nicole Starosielski is assistant professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University.

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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0252080874
ISBN 13 
9780252080876
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
304
Editor
Parks Lisa, Starosielski Nicole

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