{"product_id":"signal-traffic-lisa-parks-9780252039362","title":"Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures","description":"The contributors to \u003ci\u003eSignal Traffic\u003c\/i\u003e investigate how the material artifacts of media infrastructure--transoceanic cables, mobile telephone towers, Internet data centers, and the like--intersect with everyday life. Essayists confront the multiple and hybrid forms networks take, the different ways networks are imagined and engaged with by publics around the world, their local effects, and what human beings experience when a network fails. \u003cp\u003eSome contributors explore the physical objects and industrial relations that make up an infrastructure. Others venture into the marginalized communities orphaned from the knowledge economies, technological literacies, and epistemological questions linked to infrastructural formation and use. The wide-ranging insights delineate the oft-ignored contrasts between industrialized and developing regions, rich and poor areas, and urban and rural settings, bringing technological differences into focus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors include Charles R. Acland, Paul Dourish, Sarah Harris, Jennifer Holt and Patrick Vonderau, Shannon Mattern, Toby Miller, Lisa Parks, Christian Sandvig, Nicole Starosielski, Jonathan Sterne, and Helga Tawil-Souri.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lisa Parks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 025203936X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252039362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.38h x 5.84w x 0.83d","brand":"Lisa Parks","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086443786495,"sku":"9780252039362","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4fb5663a-defa-4149-9cec-f75940c75362.jpg?v=1769094703","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/signal-traffic-lisa-parks-9780252039362","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}