#infrastructurestudies

2024-03-06

For anyone interested in #InfrastructureStudies or #CriticalDigitalInfrastructure, this is a fantastic article by Daniel Smith, Ash Kyd, Michael Reid (no relation) and Tim Leslie for the #ABC, uncovering the underwater #fibre #networking cables that provide #internet to Australians, and how they intersect with regional #geopolitics.

There are broader questions here about national capability and technological inter-dependence on other countries

But for me, it was another reminder of how much of our #infrastructure is hidden, unseen, yet able to shape our everyday lives. Surfacing hidden infrastructures helps us think critically about who's shaping those infrastructures, and for what purpose.

abc.net.au/news/2024-03-06/the

2023-12-18

“How do we look at the underground not only as a different physical space but also a different space of possibility?”

On the latest episode of Imagine Otherwise, Juan Llamas-Rodriguez explains how representations of tunnels along the Mexico–US border shape public policy as well as how activists, artists, and scholars are reimagining the political possibilities of these spaces.

ideasonfire.net/158-juan-llama

#MediaStudies #InfrastructureStudies #IoFAuthors #LatinxStudies #AcademicPodcasts

Yellow and white abstract shapes with the above quote and Ideas on Fire logo
2023-12-13

How do media representations of US–Mexico border tunnels shape immigration discourse, public policy, and anti-immigrant violence?

In the latest episode of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach speaks with #IoFAuthor and @AnnenbergPenn professor Juan Llamas-Rodriguez about his new @UMinnPress book Border Tunnels: A Media Theory of the US–Mexico Underground.

ideasonfire.net/158-juan-llama

#MediaStudies #InfrastructureStudies #IoFAuthors #LatinxStudies #AcademicPodcasts

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez wearing a gray sweater next to a book cover of Border Tunnels with title arranged in a diagonal mimicking a tunnel on a blue and orange background, text reads: Juan Llamas-Rodriguez on the visual politics of border tunnels, Imagine Otherwise episode 158
2023-12-12

New #ImagineOtherwise episode alert! Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Ideas on Fire author and @AnnenbergPenn professor Juan Llamas-Rodriguez about the representation of border tunnels in US media about the Mexico–US border.

They also delve into the research for Juan’s new book Border Tunnels: A Media Theory of the US–Mexico Underground, which was recently published by @UMinnPress.

ideasonfire.net/158-juan-llama

#MediaStudies #InfrastructureStudies #IoFAuthors #LatinxStudies

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez wearing a gray sweater, text reads: Juan Llamas-Rodriguez on the visual politics of border tunnels, with the Ideas on Fire logo
2023-11-22

🎉Join us in congratulating #IoFAuthor Raquel Velho on her new @uwapress
book Hacking the Underground: Disability, Infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System!

It offers a feminist crip analysis of London's public transit system and how wheelchair users hack public infrastructure.

uwapress.uw.edu/book/978029575

#DisabilityStudies #InfrastructureStudies #FeministDisabilityStudies #IoFAuthors #CripTheory #DisabilityCulture #Disability #FeministSTS #NewBookAlert

Ingmar Lipperti_ngli@assemblag.es
2023-10-16

First day of teaching at @KAEEGoetheUni in the new semester was great, met many excited faces, interested in leaning about #sts, #environmentalSTS, #environmentalAnthropology, #infrastructureStudies, #digitalSTS. Yeah! Looking forward to the rest of the week.

2023-08-16

Experienced a remarkable uptick in hallway chatter and coffee making while the IT department was trying to bring the mailserver back up. Made me re-read a bit of Susan Leigh-Star.

#InfrastructureStudies #STS

jonathan w. y. gray 🐨jwyg@post.lurk.org
2023-04-15

"loud men talking loudly: exclusionary cultures of internet governance" - new research from @C__CS + critical infrastructure lab on intersecting dynamics of exclusion at Internet Engineering Task Force: criticalinfralab.net/wp-conten

#criticalinfralab #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #sts #scienceandtechnologystudies #commodon

Table showing cultural dynamics and associated exclusionary effects from "loud men talking loudly report on exclusionary cultures of internet governance" by Corinne Cath, Critical Infrastructure Lab.

1. Denial of politics in technical discussions empowers corporations,
disempowers civil society.
2. Procedural openness as a distraction delegitimizes civil society critique of industry influence.
3. Reliance on informal networking marginalizes minority voices through exclusion from social circles.
4. Abrasive working practices > Enables sexism and racism to persist, hindering civil society.
jonathan w. y. gray 🐨jwyg@post.lurk.org
2023-04-12

Next week back at Sciences Po, Paris with @lbngr for a talk on "repurposing digital media for collective inquiry", reflecting on 6 years of projects and activities with the @publicdatalab: jonathangray.org/2023/03/24/me

It will be first time back since Bruno Latour died last year, which is still sinking in (gathering pieces here: are.na/jonathan-gray/rememberi ... )

#STS #datastudies #infrastructurestudies #paris #digitalmethods #participatoryresearch #collectiveinquiry #newmediastudies #newmedia #commodon #scienceandtechnologystudies #ecology #criticalzones

jonathan w. y. gray 🐨jwyg@post.lurk.org
2023-04-01
"Fed Up!" - map of the fediverse poster from @misschienaasappel, @estragon and @Bootje
https://gitlab.com/lidia_p/fediversetransmediale2020/raw/master/artemisbolidia_fediposter.png
jonathan w. y. gray 🐨jwyg@post.lurk.org
2023-03-30

📦❓✨
"data not found", “a dataset of datasets that were sought but not found on data portals around the world”: datanotfound.jwyg.org

created as part of research for “What do data portals do? Tracing the politics of online devices for making data public”: jonathangray.org/2023/03/30/da

#datastudies #opendata #datainfrastructures #sts #infrastructurestudies #newmediastudies #commondon #softwarestudies #interfacestudies @sts @publicdatalab

screenshot of "data not found", "a dataset of datasets that were sought but not found on data portals around the world" from https://datanotfound.jwyg.org/
Andrés Domínguezandresalberto@mstdn.social
2023-03-14

Thrilled to see this finally out in ST&HV journal. In this paper I offer a new frame to think about the #decentralization of data #infrastructures. I delve into the internet of things ecosystem drawing on my ethnography work with folks at the things network #ttn doi.org/10.1177/01622439231160 #sts #infrastructurestudies #imaginaries #iot #expectations

KCL Digital Humanitieskingsdh@hcommons.social
2023-03-14

We’re looking forward to hosting Roel Roscam Abbing @rra (Malmö University) for a workshop on "Infrastructuring alternatives: Mastodon, the Fediverse and beyond" on 6th April. Further details here: kingsdh.net/2023/03/14/infrast

#fediverse #mastodon #london #infrastructurestudies #infrastructuring #infrastructure #socialmedia #alternatives #criticalinfrastructurestudies

2023-03-02

How commercial platforms fuel the climate crisis. Malte Rödl and I write on algorithmically embodied emissions: "By reinforcing high-carbon practices, algorithmic information systems contribute to climate change". Part 2 in Data & Society's series on algorithmic harm. points.datasociety.net/algorit @datasociety #ClimateCrisis #sts #google #algorithmicharms #infrastructurestudies

jonathan w. y. gray 🐨jwyg@post.lurk.org
2023-02-24

Much good stuff on data centres and infrastructure, time, labour, waste, heat, energy, bunkers, cables, environments and colonialism in this NM&S special issue on "data centers and the infrastructural temporalities of digital media":
journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/

#datastudies #infrastructurestudies #data #commodon #mediastudies #ecology #environment #colonialism #labour #work #time #temporality #newmedia

jonathan w. y. gray 🐨jwyg@post.lurk.org
2023-02-02

"..attending to these hidden intermediaries demystifies the way that a firm like Amazon builds power—not simply by bringing old relations “online,” but by shifting onto others the responsibility and risk of sustaining them" - Moira Weigel's recent report with @datasociety:
datasociety.net/library/amazon

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing #platformstudies #platformisation

jonathan w. y. gray 🐨jwyg@post.lurk.org
2023-02-02

"If you understand Amazon as an aspiring megascale infrastructure company — a provider of systems, services, capacity, and labor — its junkification makes sense. Amazon hasn’t been acting like a store for a while. In its ideal future, selling things to people is everyone else’s problem. And so is Amazon."

nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/0

#amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing

jonathan w. y. gray 🐨jwyg@post.lurk.org
2022-12-29

Festive reminders from "project sustainable cloud" ☁️☀️
> 1. delete the data
> 2. pull the plug
> 3. offline more often
> 4. there's enough time
> ...
projectsustainable.cloud/

#climatechange #energy #sustainability #cloud #cloudcomputing #solar #solarpunk #infrastructurestudies #infrastructure #selfhosted #selfhosting #nonhosting #permacomputing #lowtech #notech #offline #merrychristmas

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