[Air-L] internet infrastructures?

[Alette Schoon]

Dear Zoetanya

I would like to recommend two texts that deal with access to internet infrastructure in the global south:

The edited collection: Postcolonial Piracy: Media production and distribution in the global south, edited by Eckstein and Schwarz (2016), presents a great overview of scholars like Ravi Sundaram, Lawrence Liang and Ramon Lobato who have explored crumbling and unequal communication and media distribution infrastructures in developing countries. They argue that the infrastructures associated with copyright infringement or "piracy" become the key digital infrastructures in such spaces to provide marginalised people with access to media and information.
The book is licenced under Creative Commons and you can download it here : https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/files/7218/ppr89.pdf

I would also recommend Jonathan Donner's book on the mobile internet, called After Access: Inclusion, Development and a More Mobile Internet (2015), which is particularly relevant as the majority of mobile phone users now reside in the developing world. It unpacks the differentiated meanings associated with "the internet", distinguishing between how access changes meaning depending on the digital infrastructures and devices available to the user. He argues that conflating streaming movies on an always-on internet on a personal computer with text-based intermittent messaging on a mobile phone app, leads to an analytical muddiness in terms of defining what is meant in terms of  "access" to the internet. This lack of clarity is particularly problematic in terms of developmental goals of providing "access" to the disconnected. You can find a copy here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/after-access


Best wishes
Alette 

Alette Schoon
Senior Lecturer
Video and Multimedia Production
School of Journalism and Media Studies
Rhodes University
South Africa

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Dear Zoetanya,

Depending on what you mean by infrastructure, I would definitly look at the following works:


Brown, I., & Marsden, C. (2013). Regulating Code: good governance and better regulation in the information age. Boston: MIT Press.

Cath, C., & Floridi, L. (2017). The Design of the Internet’s Architecture by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and Human Rights. Science and Engineering Ethics, 23(2), 449–468.


Denardis, L. (2013). The Emerging Field of Internet Governance. The Oxford Handbook on Internet Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199589074.013.0026

Denardis, L. (2014). The global war for Internet governance. New Haven:
Yale University Press.

Galloway, A. (2004). Protocol. Boston: MIT Press.


Milan, S., & Ten Oever, N. (2016). Coding and Encoding rights in internet infrastructure. Internet Policy Review, 6(1).
https://doi.org/10.14763/2017.1.442

Mueller, M. (2004). Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

Mueller, M. (2010). Networks and States. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

Standage, T. (2014). The Victorian Internet: the remarkable story of the telegraph and the nineteenth century’s on-line pioneers. New York:
Bloomsbury Publishing.


Star, S. L. (1999). The ethnography of infrastructure. American Behavioral Scientist, 43(3), 377–391.


As well as the most recent work of Paul Dourish and Nicole Starosielski.


Best,

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 6:44 AM, Zoetanya Sujon <zoe.sujon at 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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