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Introduction
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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 media infrastructural landscape. Throughout, the contributors draw on feminist, queer, and intersectional criticisms to engage with infrastructural and industrial issues. This focus reflects a concern about the systemic inequalities that emerge when tech companies and designers fail to address workplace discrimination and algorithmic violence and exclusions. Moving from smart phones to smart dust, the essayists examine topics like artificial intelligence, human-machine communication, and links between digital infrastructures and public service media alongside investigations into the algorithmic backends at Netflix and Spotify, Google’s hyperscale data centers, and video-on-demand services in India.
Language
English
Source (book)
Media backends : digital infrastructures and sociotechnical relations / Parks, L. [edit.]; et al.
Source (series)
Geopolitics of information
Publication
Chicago, Ill. : University of Illinois Press , 2023
ISBN
978-0-252-08746-2
Volume/pages
p. 1-22
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Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Creation 22.01.2024
Last edited 24.01.2024
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