Signal Traffic

Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures

Lisa Parks, Nicole Starosielski (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2015
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-03936-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.6.2015
Reihe/Serie	The Geopolitics of Information
Co-Autor	Charles R. Acland, Paul Dourish, Sarah Harris
Zusatzinfo	33 black and white photographs, 2 charts, 1 table
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	594 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Technik ► Nachrichtentechnik
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
ISBN-10	0-252-03936-X / 025203936X
ISBN-13	978-0-252-03936-2 / 9780252039362
Zustand	Neuware