TY  - BOOK
AU  - Starosielski,Nicole
TI  - The undersea network
T2  - Sign, storage, transmission
SN  - 9780822357407
AV  - TK5103.15 .S737 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Cables, Submarine
KW  - Fiber optic cables
KW  - Telecommunication lines
KW  - Telecommunication cables
KW  - Communication, International
KW  - fast
KW  - Meer
KW  - gnd
KW  - Seekabel
KW  - Telekommunikationsnetz
KW  - Infrastruktur
KW  - Anthropogeographie
KW  - Telekablar
KW  - sao
KW  - Undervattenskablar
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279) and index; Circuitous routes: from topology to topography -- Short-circuiting discursive infrastructure: from connection to transmission -- Gateway: from cable colony to network operations center -- Pressure point: turbulent ecologies of the cable landing -- A network of islands: interconnecting the Pacific -- Cabled depths: the aquatic afterlives of signal traffic -- Surfacing
N2  - In our "wireless" world it is easy to take the importance of the undersea cable systems for granted, but the stakes of their successful operation are huge, as they are responsible for carrying almost all transoceanic Internet traffic. In The Undersea Network Nicole Starosielski follows these cables from the ocean depths to their landing zones on the sandy beaches of the South Pacific, bringing them to the surface of media scholarship and making visible the materiality of the wired network. In doing so, she charts the cable network's cultural, historical, geographic and environmental dimensions. Starosielski argues that the environments the cables occupy are historical and political realms, where the network and the connections it enables are made possible by the deliberate negotiation and manipulation of technology, culture, politics and geography. Accompanying the book is an interactive digital mapping project, where readers can trace cable routes, view photographs and archival materials, and read stories about the island cable hubs
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