The Undersea Network

Informationen zum Autor Nicole Starosielski Klappentext Nicole Starosielski is Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Nicole Starosielski
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2015
• EAN: 9780822357407
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5740-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission; Sign, Storage, Transmission
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries