In this Book
- Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-28
- Part I. Compression, Storage, Distribution
- 1. Compression: A Loose History
- pp. 31-52
- 4. Deep Time of Media Infrastructure
- pp. 94-112
- Part II. Resources, Environments, Geopolitics
- Part III. Content, Protocols, Platforms
- Contributors
- pp. 279-282
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252097416
Related ISBN(s)
9780252039362, 9780252080876
MARC Record
OCLC
909028514
Pages
304
Launched on MUSE
2015-05-20
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2015