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Signal traffic : critical studies of media infrastructures

Parks, Lisa, Starosielski, Nicole, 1984-

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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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Subject: Telecommunication systems Social aspects. / Digital media Social aspects. / Mass media Social aspects. / Information superhighway. / Computer networks Social aspects. / Information networks Social aspects. / Telecommunication Traffic. / Signal processing. / LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies. / TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Telecommunications. / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Computer Industry.
• ISBN: 9780252039362, 025203936X, 9780252080876, 0252080874

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