[Air-L] internet infrastructures?

Tue Nov 14 16:58:14 PST 2017

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> 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
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> On Nov 14, 2017, at 12:33 PM, Nathaniel Poor <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
> -------------------------------
> Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D.
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> On Nov 14, 2017, at 1:44 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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