Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 025203936X ISBN 13: 9780252039362

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2015

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Lisa Parks is director of the Center for Information Technology and Society and professor of film and media studies at University of California at Santa Barbara. 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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 025203936X
• ISBN 13: 9780252039362
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 292
• Redattore: Parks Lisa, Starosielski Nicole
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