[Air-L] internet infrastructures?

Tue Nov 14 08:45:39 PST 2017

I would add the following:

The Political Economies of Media: The Transformation of the Global Media
Industries by Dal Yong Jin (Editor),‎ Dwayne Winseck (Editor)

Oldie but goodie
Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860–1930
(American Encounters/Global Interactions)

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 4:45 AM, Alette Schoon <A.Schoon at ru.ac.za> wrote:

> 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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> Cath
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> Subject: Re: [Air-L] internet infrastructures?
>
> 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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