TY - BOOK ID - 80733989 TI - Signal traffic : critical studies of media infrastructures AU - Parks, Lisa AU - Starosielski, Nicole AU - Acland, Charles R. PY - 2015 SN - 9780252097416 0252097416 9780252039362 025203936X 9780252080876 0252080874 PB - Urbana, Chicago ; Chicago, [Illinois] ; Springfield, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, DB - UniCat KW - Telecommunication systems KW - Digital media KW - Mass media KW - Information superhighway KW - Computer networks KW - Information networks KW - Telecommunication KW - Signal processing KW - Processing, Signal KW - Information measurement KW - Signal theory (Telecommunication) KW - Telecommunication traffic KW - Teletraffic KW - Traffic engineering (Telecommunication) KW - Traffic theory (Telecommunication) KW - Data highway KW - Data superhighway KW - Digital highway KW - Electronic superhighway KW - Global information infrastructure KW - I-way (Information superhighway) KW - Infobahn KW - Infopike KW - Information highway KW - Information infrastructure KW - Infrastructure, Information KW - National information infrastructure KW - Superhighway, Information KW - Information society KW - Information technology KW - Communication systems KW - Communications systems KW - Systems, Communication KW - Electronic systems KW - Social aspects KW - Traffic KW - E-books KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Computer Industry. KW - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Telecommunications. KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies. KW - Signal processing. KW - Information superhighway. KW - Traffic. KW - Social aspects. KW - Mass communications KW - Computer. Automation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80733989 AB - "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"-- ER -