[Air-L] internet infrastructures?

[Taffel, Sy]

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


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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 00:58:14 +0000

From: Zoetanya Sujon <zoe.sujon at gmail.com<mailto:zoe.sujon at gmail.com>>

To: Alex Reiss Sorokin <rsalex at mit.edu<mailto:rsalex at mit.edu>>

Cc: Nathaniel Poor <natpoor at gmail.com<mailto:natpoor at gmail.com>>, AIR <air-l at listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l at listserv.aoir.org>>

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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_150ppi-for-web_REV.pdf



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 at mit.edu<mailto:rsalex at 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

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>

>

> On Nov 14, 2017, at 12:33 PM, Nathaniel Poor <natpoor at gmail.com<mailto:natpoor at 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?.

> http://shulihallak.com/fb/

>

> Subsea cable deployment from a ship. (I think she was on the ship the

> entire time for the deployment, several days.)

> http://shulihallak.com/subsea/

>

> Fiber deployment in NYC:

> http://shulihallak.com/fiber/

>

> Interconnection facilities:

> http://shulihallak.com/interconnect/

>

>

>

> 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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> On Nov 14, 2017, at 1:44 AM, Zoetanya Sujon <zoe.sujon at gmail.com<mailto: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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