The undersea network /
Nicole Starosielski examines undersea communication cable network, bringing it to the surface of media scholarship and making visible the ""wireless"" network's materiality. She argues that the network is inextricably linked to historical and political factors and that it is...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
---|---|
Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Durham :
Duke University Press,
2015.
|
Colección: | Sign, storage, transmission.
|
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: against flow
- Circuitous routes: from topology to topography
- Short-circuiting discursive infrastructure: from connection to transmission
- Gateway: from cable colony to network operations center
- Pressure point: turbulent ecologies of the cable landing
- A network of islands: interconnecting the Pacific
- Cabled depths: the aquatic afterlives of signal traffic
- Conclusion: surfacing.