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245	0	0	_aSignal traffic : _bcritical studies of media infrastructures / _cedited by Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski.
260			_aUrbana, etc. : _bUniversity of Illinois Press, _c2015.
300			_aviii, 292 p. : _bill b&w ; _c24 cm.
490	0		_aThe geopolitics of information
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_gPt. 1. _tCompression, Storage, Distribution -- _gCh. 1. _tCompression: A Loose History / _rJonathan Sterne -- _gCh. 2. _tFixed Flow: Undersea Cables as Media Infrastructure / _rNicole Starosielski -- _gCh. 3. _t"Where the Internet Lives": Data Centers as Cloud Infrastructure / _rJennifer Holt and Patrick Vonderau. _gCh. 4. _tDeep Time of Media Infrastructure / _rShannon Mattern -- _gPt. 2. _tResources, Environments, Geopolitics -- _gCh. 5. _tWater, Energy, Access: Materializing the Internet in Rural Zambia / _rLisa Parks -- _gCh. 6. _tThe Art of Waste: Contemporary Culture and Unsustainable Energy Use / _rToby Miller -- _gCh. 7. _t Cellular Borders: Dis/Connecting Phone Calls in Israel-Palestine / _rHelga Tawil-Souri -- _gPt. 3. _tContent, Protocols, Platforms -- _gCh. 8. _tProtocols, Packets, and Proximity: The Materiality of Internet Routing / _rPaul Dourish -- _gCh. 9. _tService Providers as Digital Media Infrastructure: Turkey's Cybercafé Operators / _rSarah Harris -- _gCh. 10. _tThe Internet as the Anti-Television: Distribution Infrastructure as Culture and Power / _rChristian Sandvig -- _gCh. 11. _tConsumer Electronics and the Building of an Entertainment Infrastructure / _rCharles R. Acland.
520			_aIn Signal Traffic, editors Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski use the term "media infrastructure" to signal a shift in critical focus and approach that questions the international telecommunication network as a given. Contributors instead confront vital questions concerning the multiple and hybrid forms networks take, the different ways they are imagined and engaged with by publics around the world, their local effects, and what human beings experience when a network fails. Exploring such issues leads some of the essayists to examine the physical objects and industrial relations that make up an infrastructure. Others venture into the marginalized communities that live on the edges of media infrastructures--people 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 across industrialized and developing regions, rich and poor areas, and urban and rural settings, bringing technological differences into focus.
650		0	_92260 _aTelecommunication systems _xSocial aspects
650		0	_9613 _aDigital media _xSocial aspects
650		0	_9165 _aMass media _xSocial aspects
650		0	_92261 _aInformation superhighway
650		0	_9712 _aComputer networks _xSocial aspects
650		0	_91125 _aInformation networks _xSocial aspects
650		0	_91065 _aTelecommunication _xTraffic
650		0	_92262 _aSignal processing
700	1		_4edt _92263 _aParks, Lisa
700	1		_4edt _92264 _aStarosielski, Nicole, _d1984-
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