Signal traffic : critical studies of media infrastructures /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Parks, Lisa, D (Editor), Starosielski, Nicole, 1984- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Series:	Geopolitics of information.
Subjects:	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. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Part I. Compression, Storage, Distribution
Compression : A Loose History / Jonathan Sterne
Fixed Flow : Undersea Cables as Media Infrastructure / Nicole Starosielski
"Where the Internet Lives" : Data Centers as Cloud Infrastructure / Jennifer Holt and Patrick Vonderau
Deep Time of Media Infrastructure / Shannon Mattern
Part II. Resources, Environments, Geopolitics
Water, Energy, Access : Materializing the Internet in Rural Zambia / Lisa Parks
The Art of Waste : Contemporary Culture and Unsustainable Energy Use / Toby Miller
Cellular Borders : Dis/Connecting Phone Calls in Israel-Palestine / Helga Tawil-Souri
Part III. Content, Protocols, Platforms
Protocols, Packets, and Proximity : The Materiality of Internet Routing / Paul Dourish
Service Providers as Digital Media Infrastructure : Turkey's Cybercafé Operators / Sarah Harris
The Internet as the Anti-Television : Distribution Infrastructure as Culture and Power / Christian Sandvig
Consumer Electronics and the Building of an Entertainment Infrastructure / Charles R. Acland.