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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Starosielski, Nicole, 1984- (Editor ), Parks, Lisa (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Telecommunication > Traffic.
Telecommunication systems > Social aspects.
Signal processing.
Mass media > Social aspects.
Information superhighway.
Information networks > Social aspects.
Digital media > Social aspects.
Computer networks > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Computer Industry.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Telecommunications.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Communication Studies.
Traitement du signal.
Telecommunications > Trafic.
Reseaux d'information > Aspect social.
Reseaux d'ordinateurs > Aspect social.
Autoroutes electroniques.
Medias > Aspect social.
Medias numeriques > Aspect social.
Systemes de telecommunications > Aspect social.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Cybercafe 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.

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