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Signal Traffic : Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Geopolitics of Information SeriesPublisher: Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252097416
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Signal TrafficDDC classification:
  • 303.48/33
LOC classification:
  • TK5102
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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