Nicole Starosielski

The Undersea Network

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Produktbeschreibung

Nicole Starosielski examines undersea communication cable network, bringing it to the surface of media scholarship and making visible the "wireless" network's materiality. She argues that the network is inextricably linked to historical and political factors and that it is precarious, rural, aquatic, territorially entrench and semi-centralized.

Produktdetails

• Sign, Storage, Transmission
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780822357551
• ISBN-10: 0822357550
• Artikelnr.: 41559738

Autorenporträt

Nicole Starosielski is Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Edges ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction. Against Flow 1
1. Circuitous Routes. From Topology to Topography 26
2. Short-Circuiting Discursive Infrastructure: From Connection to
Transmission 64
3. Gateway: From Cable Colony to Network Operations Center 94
4. Pressure Point: Turbulent Ecologies of the Cable Landing 138
5. A Network of Islands: Interconnecting the Pacific 170
6. Cabled Depths: The Aquatic Afterlives of Signal Traffic 198
Conclusion. Surfacing 225
Notes 235
Bibliography 263
Index  281