[ecrea] Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures

*Signal Traffic***

*Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures***

/Edited by Lisa Parks & Nicole Starosielski/

    “In an age when we are led to believe that information and
communication are virtual rather than material, /Signal Traffic/
provides a much-needed corrective, reminding us that behind the pixels
and mp3s lie extensive and complex infrastructures that shape how we
inhabit the emerging media environment. This book revives the tradition
of critical attention to material infrastructure in media and
communication studies, and not a moment too soon.”—Darin Barney, author
of /The Network Society/

“The first and only collection of its kind I know. This book is going to
be a big deal, both nationally and internationally.”—Vicki A. Mayer,
author of /Below the Line: Producers and Production Studies in the New
Television Economy/

    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 networks are imagined and engaged with by publics
around the world, their local effects, and what human beings experience
when a network fails.

    Some contributors explore the physical objects and industrial
relations that make up an infrastructure. Others venture into the
marginalized communities orphaned from the knowledge economies,
technological literacies, and epistemological questions linked to
infrastructural formation and use. The wide-ranging insights delineate
the oft-ignored contrasts between industrialized and developing regions,
rich and poor areas, and urban and rural settings, bringing
technological differences into focus.

Contributors include Charles R. Acland, Paul Dourish, Sarah Harris,
Jennifer Holt and Patrick Vonderau, Shannon Mattern, Toby Miller, Lisa
Parks, Christian Sandvig, Nicole Starosielski, Jonathan Sterne, and
Helga Tawil-Souri.

*Lisa Parks* is director of the Center for Information Technology and
Society and professor of film and media studies at University of
California at Santa Barbara. She is the author /of Cultures in Orbit:
Satellites and the Televisual/.

*Nicole Starosielski* is assistant professor of media, culture, and
communication at New York University.

University of Illinois Press

Series: The Geopolitics of Information
<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/the-geopolitics-of-information>

June 2015 296pp 33 b&w photos, 2 charts, 1 table 9780252080876 PB
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