[Air-L] internet infrastructures?

Fri Nov 17 10:35:40 PST 2017

Hi all,
These are great sources thus far! I'll add:

   - *Theories of the Mobile Internet: Materialities and Imaginaries*. Eds.
   Andrew Herman, Jan Hadlaw, and Thom Swiss. (I have a chapter on the
   infrastructures of mobile/locative media in this collection)
   - Lisa Parks, "Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural
   Visibility," *Flow*, no. 8 (2009)
   - Lisa Parks, "Walking Phone Workers," in *Foundations of Mobile Media
   Studies: Essential Texts on the Formation of a Field*
   - Nichole Starosielski, *The Undersea Network*
   - Andrew Blum, *Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet*
   - Tung-Hui Hu, *A Prehistory of the Cloud*
   - Ted Kane and Rick Miller, "Cell Structure: Mobile Phones," in *The
   Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles. *Ed. Kazys
   Varnelis

Also, in case it's of interest, I've taught a graduate course titled
"Material Culture and Internet Studies," and my syllabus can be found here:
https://amst629i.wordpress.com/
Best,
Jason

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On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 8:03 AM, Andrew Herman <aherman at wlu.ca> wrote:

> Excdllent list, Sy :)
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> Hi Zoe,
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> You might also want to have a look at:
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> Mackenzie, A. (2010). Wirelessness: Radical empiricism in network
> cultures: The MIT Press.
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> Kitchin, R., & Dodge, M. (2011). Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life.
> Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press
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> Cubitt, S. (2016). Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital
> Technologies. Durham: Duke University Press.
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> Rossiter, N. (2016). Software, Infrastructure, Labor: A Media Theory of
> Logistical Nightmares: Routledge.
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> Parikka, J. (2015). A Geology of Media. Minneapolis: University of
> Minnesota Press.
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>
> 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
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> Best
>
> Sy
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> Technofossils of the Anthropocene: Media, Geology and Plastics<http://
> culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org/content/12/3/355.abstract>. Cultural
> Politics 2016:3, 355-375
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> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 00:58:14 +0000
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> From: Zoetanya Sujon <zoe.sujon at gmail.com<mailto:zoe.sujon at gmail.com>>
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> To: Alex Reiss Sorokin <rsalex at mit.edu<mailto:rsalex at mit.edu>>
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> Hello again Aoir,
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> 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.
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>
> There are a few other sources I've come across today which might also be
>
> helpful:
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> 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_150ppi-for-web_REV.pdf
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>
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> Parks, L; Starosielski, N. 2015.* Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of
> Media Infrastructures*. University of Illinois Press
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>
> 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!
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>
>
> All best wishes,
>
> Zoe
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> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Alex Reiss Sorokin <rsalex at mit.edu
> <mailto:rsalex at mit.edu>> wrote:
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> > I'm actually researching a related topic and stumbled upon this, which
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> > might be useful:
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> > Christian Sandvig, *the Internet as Infrastructure*, in The Oxford
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> > Handbook of Internet Studies (2013)
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> > Warm wishes,
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> > Alex
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> > -----------------------
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> > Alex Reiss Sorokin
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> > Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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> > History | Anthropology | Science, Technology, and Society
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> > On Nov 14, 2017, at 12:33 PM, Nathaniel Poor <natpoor at gmail.com<mailto:
> natpoor at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > My initial thought (that I am sure everyone on the list had) was what
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> > is understanding? Legal? Social? Technical? Hardware? But I think the
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> > suggestions so far are good.
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> >
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> > I would add perhaps you might want some pictures ? a friend of mine,
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> > Shuli Hallak, is a professional photographer of infrastructures. Some
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> > of her work focuses on the internet. This way you can have images in
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> > your mind about what in the world we are all talking about in terms of
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> > its actual concrete physicality, not just the more abstract social or
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> > technical concepts. Terms like ?the cloud? are easy to understand (for
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> > the cloud, at least, it signals that you don?t need to understand
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> > whatever it is but it?s out there somewhere ? Mosco has a good recent
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> > book about it, ?To The Cloud?), but what does it look like? Since
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> > vision is such an important part of who we are, this is not a bad idea I
> don?t think.
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> > Here are the four sub-sections of her website with internet photos.
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> > Also, mouse-over each image if you want for some descriptive text.
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> > Facebook, server farms?.
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> > http://shulihallak.com/fb/
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> >
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> > Subsea cable deployment from a ship. (I think she was on the ship the
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> > entire time for the deployment, several days.)
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> > http://shulihallak.com/subsea/
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> >
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> > Fiber deployment in NYC:
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> > http://shulihallak.com/fiber/
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> >
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> > Interconnection facilities:
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> > http://shulihallak.com/interconnect/
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> > All her photos are pretty cool, the cargo ones (not internet) are
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> > really impressive imho: http://shulihallak.com/cargo/ I believe she
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> > actually rode on board for the entire trip, whatever it was exactly.
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> > How cool is that! She?s amazing.
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> > -Nat
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> > On Nov 14, 2017, at 1:44 AM, Zoetanya Sujon <zoe.sujon at gmail.com<mailto:
> zoe.sujon at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > Good morning AoIR,
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> > I am looking for up-to-date resources for understanding the
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> > infrastructure of the internet, including the role of mobile and
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> > telephone networks in that infrastructure.
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> >
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> > As a starting point, I've looked at Janet Abbate's 'Inventing the
> Internet'
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> > (2000) and Kurose and Ross's 'Computer Networking' (2013). I tend to
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> > focus on the social/cultural aspects of the web, so this is a little
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> > outside my own area of focus, and I fear I may be missing some basics.
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> > Any recommendations gratefully received!
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