Media backends : digital infrastructures and sociotechnical relations / edited by Lisa Parks, Julia Velkova, and Sander De Ridder.

"Media backends--the electronics, labor, and operations behind our screens--significantly influence our understanding of the sociotechnical relations, economies, and operations of media. Lisa Parks, Julia Velkova, and Sander De Ridder assemble essays that delve into the evolving politics of the medi...

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Uniform Title:Geopolitics of information.
Other Authors: Parks, Lisa (Editor)
Velkova, Julia (Editor)
De Ridder, Sander (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023]
Series:Geopolitics of information.
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Physical Description:ix, 286 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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505 0 0 |t Atmospheric mediation : from smart dust to customizable governance /  |r Mark Andrejevic and Zala Volcic --  |t The other side of the smart phone: MEMS sensors and the tiny matters of mediation /  |r Lisa Parks --  |t EugenicTech : three perspectives on the (b)anality of AI /  |r Jonathan Cohn --  |t Coding and encoding streamed media : the cultural infrastructure of the Netflix recommender system /  |r Fatima Gaw --  |t Engaging opacity : spotify and the poiesis of algorithmic backends /  |r Tim Markham --  |t The social mapping of hyperscale data center regions : placemaking, infrastructuring, curating /  |r Vicki Mayer and Julia Velkova --  |t Cross-sectoral relations in VOD markets : frontend, backend, and deepend in India /  |r Vibodh Parthasarathi, Philippe Bouquillion, and Christine Ithurbide --  |t Serving machines and heterotopias : data entry work in prisons and refugee camps in the US and Uganda /  |r Anne Kaun, Alexis Logsdon, Philipp Seuferling, and Fredrik Stiernstedt --  |t Mythical media backends : human-machine communication's cruel promises /  |r Sander De Ridder --  |t Black living data booklet /  |r Faithe J. Day --  |t Sonorous surfaces, biased backends : the gendered voices of ai assistants as existential media /  |r Amanda Lagerkvist, Jacek Smolicki, and Matilda Tudor --  |t On meaning and exploitation : everyday AI and productivity tracking in Denmark /  |r Stine Lomborg --  |t The backend work of data subjects : ordinary challenges of living with data in India and the US /  |r Ranjit Singh --  |t Repairing algorithms, rebuilding data paths : digital infrastructures, public service media, and material solidarity in Europe /  |r Kaarina Nikunen --  |g Afterword :  |t theorizing across and between media backends /  |r Rahul Mukherjee. 
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