Radical Infrastructure : Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paris, Britt.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2026.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. What if we could start over and build the Internet from scratch? How could it be rebuilt or reimagined as more equitable and just? For more than eight years, Britt S. Paris investigated alternative Internet infrastructure projects, conducting interviews, site visits, and policy analysis. In this expansive and interdisciplinary study, Paris critically examines the myriad and contradictory promises, utility, and obstacles to building a completely new Internet. Radical Infrastructure locates and analyzes the boundaries of how people and groups imagine, build, deploy, maintain, and use the Internet as they survive--and even dare to thrive--in challenging political, economic, and environmental contexts. Ultimately, Paris encourages active reflection among scholars, policymakers, and activists and reveals more grounded imaginaries, tactics, and opportunities for future people-centered projects.

Contents:

Introduction : Internet and infrastructure : what is and what shouldn't be

Networking of futures past

Buried bodies of Internet infrastructure

Mining Silicon Holler for Internet infrastructure alternatives

Looking at the gig on the ground : organizing around municipal Internet

In the cloud and on the ground : imagining and managing relations

Reading futures for Internet infrastructure

Conclusion : mobilizing theories of change and organizing tactics for radical Internet infrastructure.

Notes:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) license. To veiw a copy of the license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

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ISBN:

0-520-40206-5

9780520402065

OCLC:

1559919345