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"Nicole Starosielski examines the cultural dimensions of temperature and the history of thermal media such as thermostats and infrared cameras to theorize the ways heat and cold can be used as a means of communication, subjugation, and control."--

Body temperature --- Temperature sense --- Global temperature changes. --- Human beings --- Regulation --- Social aspects. --- Effect of climate on. --- thermal media. --- thermal technologies.

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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 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"--

Telecommunication systems --- Digital media --- Mass media --- Information superhighway --- Computer networks --- Information networks --- Telecommunication --- Signal processing --- Processing, Signal --- Information measurement --- Signal theory (Telecommunication) --- Telecommunication traffic --- Teletraffic --- Traffic engineering (Telecommunication) --- Traffic theory (Telecommunication) --- Data highway --- Data superhighway --- Digital highway --- Electronic superhighway --- Global information infrastructure --- I-way (Information superhighway) --- Infobahn --- Infopike --- Information highway --- Information infrastructure --- Infrastructure, Information --- National information infrastructure --- Superhighway, Information --- Information society --- Information technology --- Communication systems --- Communications systems --- Systems, Communication --- Electronic systems --- Social aspects --- Traffic --- E-books --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Computer Industry. --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Telecommunications. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies. --- Signal processing. --- Information superhighway. --- Traffic. --- Social aspects. --- Mass communications --- Computer. Automation

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"Assembly Codes connects the critical study of logistics to the field of media and communications studies. It documents how logistics-the techniques of organizing and coordinating the movement of materials, bodies, and information-has had a substantial effect on how media is produced, distributed, and consumed, ranging from the logistics of film production to the construction of digital networks. It reveals how logistical technologies have generated new ways of seeing, and new aesthetic and performative practices. Additionally, the essays reveal how media technologies themselves, from phone systems to software, underpin global production"-- The contributors to Assembly Codes examine how media and logistics set the conditions for the circulation of information and culture. They document how logistics-the techniques of organizing and coordinating the movement of materials, bodies, and information-has substantially impacted the production, distribution, and consumption of media. At the same time, physical media, such as paperwork, along with media technologies ranging from phone systems to software are central to the operations of logistics. The contributors interrogate topics ranging from the logistics of film production and the construction of internet infrastructure to the environmental impact of the creation, distribution, and sale of vinyl records. They also reveal how logistical technologies have generated new aesthetic and performative practices. In charting the specific points of contact, dependence, and friction between media and logistics, Assembly Codes demonstrates that media and logistics are co-constitutive and that one cannot be understood apart from the other.

Communication --- Mass media --- Mass media --- Mass media --- Mass media --- Technological innovations --- Communication and technology. --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Economic aspects. --- History. --- Social aspects.

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Digital media everyday inscribe new patterns of time, promising instant communication, synchronous collaboration, intricate time management, and profound new advantages in speed. The essays in this volume reconsider these outward interfaces of convenience by calling attention to their supporting infrastructures, the networks of digital time that exert pressures of conformity and standardization on the temporalities of lived experience and have important ramifications for social relations, stratifications of power, practices of cooperation, and ways of life. Interdisciplinary in method and international in scope, the volume draws together insights from media and communication studies, cultural studies, and science and technology studies while staging an important encounter between two distinct approaches to the temporal patterning of media infrastructures, a North American strain emphasizing the social and cultural experiences of lived time and a European tradition, prominent especially in Germany, focusing on technological time and time-critical processes.

Philosophy. --- digital technology, infrastructures, media, temporal politics, time.