Lisa Parks is director of the Center for Information Technology and Society, professor of film and media studies at University of California at Santa Barbara, and winner of a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship. She is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual. Nicole Starosielski is assistant professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University.

Best Edited Collection Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), 2015-2016.— Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Compression, Storage, Distribution1. Compression: A Loose History2. Fixed Flow: Undersea Cables as Media Infrastructure3. "Where the Internet Lives": Data Centers as Cloud Infrastructure4. Deep Time of Media InfrastructurePart II: Resources, Environments, Geopolitics5. Water, Energy, Access: Materializing the Internet in Rural Zambia6. The Art of Waste: Contemporary Culture and Unsustainable Energy Use7. Cellular Borders: Dis/Connecting Phone Calls in Israel-PalestinePart III: Content, Protocols, Platforms8. Protocols, Packets, and Proximity: The Materiality of Internet Routing9. Service Providers as Digital Media Infrastructure: Turkey's Cybercafé Operators10. The Internet as the Anti-Television: Distribution Infrastructure as Culture and Power11. Consumer Electronics and the Building of an Entertainment InfrastructureContributorsIndex

Lisa Parks is director of the Center for Information Technology and Society, professor of film and media studies at University of California at Santa Barbara, and winner of a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship. She is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual. Nicole Starosielski is assistant professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University.

Best Edited Collection Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), 2015-2016.— Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Compression, Storage, Distribution1. Compression: A Loose History2. Fixed Flow: Undersea Cables as Media Infrastructure3. "Where the Internet Lives": Data Centers as Cloud Infrastructure4. Deep Time of Media InfrastructurePart II: Resources, Environments, Geopolitics5. Water, Energy, Access: Materializing the Internet in Rural Zambia6. The Art of Waste: Contemporary Culture and Unsustainable Energy Use7. Cellular Borders: Dis/Connecting Phone Calls in Israel-PalestinePart III: Content, Protocols, Platforms8. Protocols, Packets, and Proximity: The Materiality of Internet Routing9. Service Providers as Digital Media Infrastructure: Turkey's Cybercafé Operators10. The Internet as the Anti-Television: Distribution Infrastructure as Culture and Power11. Consumer Electronics and the Building of an Entertainment InfrastructureContributorsIndex