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Signal Traffic : Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures

Parks, Lisa, 1967- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Starosielski, Nicole, 1984- [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender]

Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2015 [©2015.]

1 online resource (305 pages)

Englisch

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Erscheint auch als: Signal traffic (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-252-09741-6

978-0-252-03936-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang beim Produzenten (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

AP 11800      Ähnliche Literatur

TK5102.5

303.4833 ; 303.4833 ; 303.48/33 ; 303.48/33

Basisklassifikation: 53.76 (Kommunikationsdienste; Fernmeldetechnik)

*Telekommunikation ; Rechnernetz ; Einfluss ; Aufsatzsammlung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Telecommunication systems -- Social aspects ; Digital media -- Social aspects ; Mass media -- Social aspects ; Computer networks -- Social aspects ; Information networks -- Social aspects ; Telecommunication -- Traffic ; Signal processing ; Information superhighway ; Digital media -- Social aspects ; Mass media -- Social aspects ; Telecommunication systems -- Social aspects ; Computer networks -- Social aspects ; Information networks -- Social aspects ; Telecommunication -- Traffic

Telecommunication systems ; Social aspects.;Digital media ; Social aspects.;Mass media ; Social aspects.;Information superhighway.;Computer networks ; Social aspects.;Information networks ; Social aspects.;Telecommunication ; Traffic ; Computer networks ; Social aspects ; Digital media ; Social aspects ; Information networks ; Social aspects ; Information superhighway ; Mass media ; Social aspects ; Telecommunication ; Traffic ; Telecommunication systems ; Social aspects ; Electronic books

Inside the technological objects, geophysical locations, and material resources that network the world.

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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Compression, Storage, Distribution -- 1. Compression: A Loose History -- 2. Fixed Flow: Undersea Cables as Media Infrastructure -- 3. "Where the Internet Lives": Data Centers as Cloud Infrastructure -- 4. Deep Time of Media Infrastructure -- Part II: Resources, Environments, Geopolitics -- 5. Water, Energy, Access: Materializing the Internet in Rural Zambia -- 6. The Art of Waste: Contemporary Culture and Unsustainable Energy Use -- 7. Cellular Borders: Dis/Connecting Phone Calls in Israel-Palestine -- Part III: Content, Protocols, Platforms -- 8. Protocols, Packets, and Proximity: The Materiality of Internet Routing -- 9. Service Providers as Digital Media Infrastructure: Turkey's Cybercafé Operators -- 10. The Internet as the Anti-Television: Distribution Infrastructure as Culture and Power -- 11. Consumer Electronics and the Building of an Entertainment Infrastructure -- Contributors -- Index.