🛢️ 📦 📻 New instance, new #introduction, many hashtags. Hi! I'm an #STS #technopolitics scholar, also thinking w #anthropology #geography #EnvHist #Commodon

This is my non-chattery account for research updates, topics may include:
#feministSTS #multispecies #anticolonial #California #trucks #internet #port #SupplyChain #MediaActivism #labor #FreeRadio #CommunityMedia #SoundStudies #soundscapes #ClimateCrisis #LowPower #LosAngeles #oil #InfrastructureStudies #CriticalLogistics #Radio #FOSS #hacking #Energy #ToxicLA

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.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-06/the-cloud-under-the-sea/103137378

“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.

https://ideasonfire.net/158-juan-llamas-rodriguez

#MediaStudies #InfrastructureStudies #IoFAuthors #LatinxStudies #AcademicPodcasts

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.

https://ideasonfire.net/158-juan-llamas-rodriguez

#MediaStudies #InfrastructureStudies #IoFAuthors #LatinxStudies #AcademicPodcasts

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.

https://ideasonfire.net/158-juan-llamas-rodriguez

#MediaStudies #InfrastructureStudies #IoFAuthors #LatinxStudies

🎉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.

https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295751931/hacking-the-underground/

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

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.

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

"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: https://www.criticalinfralab.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/LoudMen-CorinneCath-CriticalInfraLab.pdf

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

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: https://jonathangray.org/2023/03/24/medialab-talk

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

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

Looking forward to workshop with @rra next Thu 6th April 2023 on “Infrastructuring alternatives: Mastodon, the Fediverse and beyond” at @kingsdh. If you're around in London there are still a few places left: https://jonathangray.org/2023/03/14/infrastructuring-alternatives

cc @siusoon @anthropologist @__nate__ @jamessmithies @ayliu @dv #london #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #mastodon #fediverse #socialmedia #fediverse #feministsts #infrastructuring #commodon #newmediastudies #newmedia #mediastudies #federation #interoperability #alternativesocialmedia

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

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

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

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 https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439231160466 #sts #infrastructurestudies #imaginaries #iot #expectations

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: https://kingsdh.net/2023/03/14/infrastructuring-alternatives/

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

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. https://points.datasociety.net/algorithmically-embodied-emissions-algorithmic-harm-and-climate-change-e2617eb4770d @datasociety #ClimateCrisis #sts #google #algorithmicharms #infrastructurestudies

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":
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/25/2

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

Looking forward to visiting Berlin for a fellowship and workshop on "Environmental Data, Media, and the Humanities" in May - focusing on repurposing forest media: https://jonathangray.org/2023/02/22/berlin-fellowship

@maximilian @lbngr
@dh_potsdam

#berlin #sts #datastudies #mediaart #digitalmethods #ecologies #feministsts #infrastructurestudies #internetstudies #newmedia #digitalculture #commodon #platformstudies #softwarestudies
#algorithmstudies #art #climatechange #commons #compost #criticaldatastudies #criticaltechnicalpractice #datapractices #datastudies #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ecology #forests #formats #freesoftware #newmediaart #newmediastudies #soundscapes #environmentalhumanities

"..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:
https://datasociety.net/library/amazons-trickle-down-monopoly/

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

"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."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/why-does-it-feel-like-amazon-is-making-itself-worse.html

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

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

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