Building a Fugitive Communication Infrastructure during the South African...
Published on June 4th, 2020 Written by Sophie Toupin During the South African liberation struggle, a group of scientists and techies formed a technical committee to assist the African National Congress...
View ArticlePlatforms, Community Archives and Remembering the Pandemic
Published on June 9th, 2020 Written by Amelia Acker For the past two years, I’ve been researching platforms’ digital preservation strategies and studying how platforms like Facebook, iOS, and Android...
View ArticleNotes from the Field: Wardriving and Warflying: Collecting Accurate Spectrum...
Published on June 22nd, 2020 Written by Marisa Elena Duarte, MLIS, PhD, & Morgan Vigil-Hayes, PhD What is network sovereignty in Indian Country? The concept of network sovereignty is particularly...
View ArticleNational Belonging and Exclusion in Estonia’s Networked Sovereignty
Published on June 23rd, 2020 Written by Stanislav Budnitsky On a cloudy afternoon in June 2017, I landed in Estonia’s capital Tallinn to attend the tenth annual European Dialogue on Internet...
View ArticleNetworked Sovereignties: Imagining Alternative Futures in Barcelona
Published on July 1st, 2020 Written by Casey Lynch I arrived in Barcelona in 2016 with the intention of studying the city’s world-famous “smart city” program. Since at least 2011, the municipal...
View ArticleMobile Politics: Infrastructural Chokepoints and Geopolitical Flashpoints
Published on July 1st, 2020 Written by Lianrui Jia The coronavirus has toppled any kind of normalcy that we are used to. It also laid bare the failures of our digital technologies. Tech companies are...
View ArticleNotes on Creating the Zine, Cable TV Infrastructures: A Glossary of Illegal...
Published on July 2nd, 2020 Written by Daniel Carter Download the zine Cable TV Infrastructures: A Glossary of Illegal Access here. Figure 1. Sketch based on photo posted to reddit.com/cablefail....
View ArticleThe Diverse Meanings of Digital Sovereignty
Published on August 5th, 2020 Written by Stéphane Couture The notion of sovereignty as it is applied to the digital has been increasingly used in recent years. The notion of “data sovereignty” in...
View ArticleEuropean Digital Sovereignty: EU’s Projection of Normative Power?
Published on September 9th, 2020 Written by Abid Adonis Figure 1. European Union flag. (Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) In the last four years, “digital sovereignty” has turned into a new prominent...
View ArticleMedia and Satellites for Remote Learning: A Brief History of the SACI Project...
Published on October 26th, 2020 Written by Iago Bojczuk, MIT/GMTaC Alum In his writings from the post-war period, Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan contended that it is through the “electronics...
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