forthcoming in Lisa Parks & Nicole Starosielski, eds., Signal Traffic (2014) 88 “Where the
Internet Lives” Page 1 forthcoming in Lisa Parks & Nicole Starosielski, eds., Signal Traffic (2014) …

Within communication studies, the political economy of communication (PEC) approach is
typically seen to be the sole preserve of Marxist scholars, with origins in the late 20 th …

In recent years, media studies and internet studies have paid increasing attention to the
concept of infrastructure, and to the related concept of distribution. In this chapter I discuss …

This article explores the ways in which data centre operators are currently reconfiguring the
systems of energy and heat supply in European capitals, replacing conventional forms of …

The digital music revolution and the rise of piracy cultures has transformed the music world
as we knew it. Digital Music Distribution aims to go beyond the polarized and reductive …

Abstract Abandoned after the Cold War, nuclear bunkers around the world have found
afterlives as ultra‐secure data storage sites for cloud computing providers. The operators of …

The political economy of the “cloud” depends on the continuous transformation of physical
space to support the flow of digital commodities. Retrofitting disused infrastructure has been …

Global health is increasingly approached as a security issue, especially in the context of
unpredictable global epidemics that can be anticipated and monitored with novel, digital …

A notable event in the current revolution of the World Wide Web is the open access model of
publishing, which promotes freedom of inquiry and full and open availability of scientific …

As visions of the end-times accelerate under neoliberal capitalism, corporations and
governments are moving their valuable digital data into that most iconic end-of-the-world …