"What if we could start over and build the Internet from scratch? How could it be rebuilt or reimagined as more equitable and just? ... Paris critically examines the myriad and contradictory promises, utility, and obstacles to building a completely new Internet.

Radical Infrastructure locates and analyzes the boundaries of how people and groups imagine, build, deploy, maintain, and use the Internet as they survive—and even dare to thrive—in challenging political, economic, and environmental contexts. Ultimately, Paris encourages active reflection among scholars, policymakers, and activists and reveals more grounded imaginaries, tactics, and opportunities for future people-centered projects"

https://www.ucpress.edu/books/radical-infrastructure/paper

#OpenAccess #InternetStudies #Bookstodon #Commodon #InfrastructureStudies #RadicalInfrastructure #STS

🛢️ 📦 📻 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

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