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Data Centers: Edges of a Wired Nation Monika Dommann

Data Centers: Edges of a Wired Nation By Monika Dommann

Data Centers: Edges of a Wired Nation by Monika Dommann


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Who manages our data? A look behind the scenes of state-of-the-art IT infrastructures. Data centers are high-tech functional buildings, strictly protected treasuries and covert centers of power. The first comprehensive analysis of the history and present of IT infrastructures using the example of Switzerland.

Data Centers: Edges of a Wired Nation Summary

Data Centers: Edges of a Wired Nation by Monika Dommann

Questions of privacy, borders, and nationhood are increasingly shaping the way we think about all things digital. Data Centers brings together essays and photographic documentation that analyze recent and ongoing developments. Taking Switzerland as an example, the book takes a look at the country's data centers, law firms, corporations, and government institutions that are involved in the creation, maintenance, and regulation of digital infrastructures. Beneath the official storyline- Switzerland's moderate climate, political stability, and relatively clean energy mix-the book uncovers a much more varied and sometimes contradictory set of narratives.

About Monika Dommann

MONIKA DOMMANN is Professor of Modern History at the University of Zurich. Topics in her research and teaching are the intertwining of the Old and New Worlds, media-, economic- and legal history, the history of knowledge and science as well as the methods of historical science. She has a special focus on the history of material cultures, immaterial goods, logistics and data centers. HANNES RICKLI is a visual artist and has held a professorship at the Zurich University of the Arts since 2004. From 1988 to 1994, he worked as a freelance photographer for various newspapers and magazines and has staged visual art exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad since 1991. In 2004, he was awarded the Meret Oppenheim Prize from the Swiss Federal Office for Culture. His teaching and research focus on the instrumental use of media and space. MAX STADLER is a post-doctoral researcher at ETH Zurich (Science Studies and Collegium Helveticum). He has received a Ph.D. in the history of science, technology and medicine from CHoSTM, Imperial College, London. His research interests center on the history of high-tech, labor, and the human sciences.

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NGR9783037786451
9783037786451
3037786450
Data Centers: Edges of a Wired Nation by Monika Dommann
New
Hardback
Lars Muller Publishers
2020-09-03
344
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