Hi Zoe, You might also want to have a look at: Mackenzie, A. (2010). Wirelessness: Radical empiricism in network cultures: The MIT Press. Kitchin, R., & Dodge, M. (2011). Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press Cubitt, S. (2016). Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies. Durham: Duke University Press. Rossiter, N. (2016). Software, Infrastructure, Labor: A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares: Routledge. Parikka, J. (2015). A Geology of Media. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. And the special issue of Cultural Politics on Mediated Geologies from last year edited by Parikka that has pieces by Nicole Starosielski, Rosi Braidotti and Shannon Mattern http://culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org/content/12/3.toc Best Sy Sy Taffel, PhD Lecturer in Media Studies |Co-Director, Political Ecology Research Centre<http://perc.ac.nz/> College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Massey University Email: s.a.taffel@massey.ac.nz<mailto:s.a.taffel@massey.ac.nz> | Telephone: +64 (06 ) 356 9099 ext. 84527 Recently Published: Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498535694/Ecological-Entanglements-in-the-Anthropocene>, edited by Nicholas Holm and Sy Taffel, Lexington Books Technofossils of the Anthropocene: Media, Geology and Plastics<http://culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org/content/12/3/355.abstract>. Cultural Politics 2016:3, 355-375 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 00:58:14 +0000 From: Zoetanya Sujon <zoe.sujon@gmail.com<mailto:zoe.sujon@gmail.com>> To: Alex Reiss Sorokin <rsalex@mit.edu<mailto:rsalex@mit.edu>> Cc: Nathaniel Poor <natpoor@gmail.com<mailto:natpoor@gmail.com>>, AIR <air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] internet infrastructures? Message-ID: <CAFy6q3w3Nvcx+HO3dfAXzEnZgyAgaRAcUzbRAPfKAK1soD2fdw@mail.gmail.com<mailto:CAFy6q3w3Nvcx+HO3dfAXzEnZgyAgaRAcUzbRAPfKAK1soD2fdw@mail.gmail.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hello again Aoir, Just wanted to thank everyone for sharing such useful sources - all of them look really interesting and those I've been able to track down have been very helpful. There are a few other sources I've come across today which might also be helpful: Bratton, B. 2016. *The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty.* MIT Press Cath, C et al. 2017. Media Development in the Digital Age: Five ways to engage in internet governance, CIMA, https://www.cima.ned.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/CIMA-Internet-Governance... Parks, L; Starosielski, N. 2015.* Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures*. University of Illinois Press Also, Nathaniel, I was particularly thinking about the technical / physical infrastructures, although very hard to completely separate out from the social, political, judicial, and governance levels. On that note, Shuli Hallak's photos are amazing! All best wishes, Zoe On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Alex Reiss Sorokin <rsalex@mit.edu<mailto:rsalex@mit.edu>> wrote:
I'm actually researching a related topic and stumbled upon this, which
might be useful:
Christian Sandvig, *the Internet as Infrastructure*, in The Oxford
Handbook of Internet Studies (2013)
Warm wishes,
Alex
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Alex Reiss Sorokin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
History | Anthropology | Science, Technology, and Society
On Nov 14, 2017, at 12:33 PM, Nathaniel Poor <natpoor@gmail.com<mailto:natpoor@gmail.com>> wrote:
My initial thought (that I am sure everyone on the list had) was what
is understanding? Legal? Social? Technical? Hardware? But I think the
suggestions so far are good.
I would add perhaps you might want some pictures ? a friend of mine,
Shuli Hallak, is a professional photographer of infrastructures. Some
of her work focuses on the internet. This way you can have images in
your mind about what in the world we are all talking about in terms of
its actual concrete physicality, not just the more abstract social or
technical concepts. Terms like ?the cloud? are easy to understand (for
the cloud, at least, it signals that you don?t need to understand
whatever it is but it?s out there somewhere ? Mosco has a good recent
book about it, ?To The Cloud?), but what does it look like? Since
vision is such an important part of who we are, this is not a bad idea I don?t think.
Here are the four sub-sections of her website with internet photos.
Also, mouse-over each image if you want for some descriptive text.
Facebook, server farms?.
Subsea cable deployment from a ship. (I think she was on the ship the
entire time for the deployment, several days.)
Fiber deployment in NYC:
Interconnection facilities:
All her photos are pretty cool, the cargo ones (not internet) are
really impressive imho: http://shulihallak.com/cargo/ I believe she
actually rode on board for the entire trip, whatever it was exactly.
How cool is that! She?s amazing.
-Nat
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Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D.
On Nov 14, 2017, at 1:44 AM, Zoetanya Sujon <zoe.sujon@gmail.com<mailto:zoe.sujon@gmail.com>> wrote:
Good morning AoIR,
I am looking for up-to-date resources for understanding the
infrastructure of the internet, including the role of mobile and
telephone networks in that infrastructure.
As a starting point, I've looked at Janet Abbate's 'Inventing the Internet'
(2000) and Kurose and Ross's 'Computer Networking' (2013). I tend to
focus on the social/cultural aspects of the web, so this is a little
outside my own area of focus, and I fear I may be missing some basics.
Any recommendations gratefully received!
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