Signal Traffic - Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Geopolitics of Information
Release date:	June 2015
First published:	2015
Editors:	Lisa Parks • Nicole Starosielski
Contributors:	Charles R. Acland • Paul Dourish • Sarah Harris • Jennifer Holt • Shannon Mattern • Toby Miller • Lisa Parks • Christian Sandvig
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-03936-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Information technology industries Books > Professional & Technical > Electronics & communications engineering > Communications engineering / telecommunications > General Promotions
LSN:	0-252-03936-X
Barcode:	9780252039362

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