Countering the Cloud: Thinking With and Against Data Infrastructures (Routledge Focus on IT & Society)

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The book titled “Countering the Cloud: Thinking With and Against Data Infrastructures” focuses on how information infrastructures operate and how they create particular types of knowledge. The book challenges the common logics of speed, efficiency, and resilience and suggests more communal and ecological ways of thinking about the subject. This shift of focus encourages readers to ponder over what society actually wants from infrastructures and what role infrastructures should play.

The book’s author, Munn, has extensively researched data centers in Hong Kong, undersea cables in Singapore, and server clusters in China. With this empirical data and insights from cultural studies, sociology, and philosophy, Munn demonstrates that infrastructures are not only technical but are also epistemological. They favor particular actions and actors while sidelining others, which is a critical issue.

The book is an innovative study of the values and visions underlying our technologies. It is a must-read for students, researchers, and scholars in fields like communication studies, digital media, technology studies, sociology, philosophy of technology, information studies, and geography.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BLTD8DR3
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (November 23, 2022)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 23, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4101 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Up to 4 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
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