Where Cloud Is Ground: Placing Data and Making Place in Iceland (Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century #11)
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- Synopsis
- Where Cloud Is Ground offers an ethnography of the international data storage industry and an inquiry into the relationship between data and place. Based in Iceland, which is fast becoming a hot spot for data centers—facilities where large quantities of data are processed and stored—the book traces the fraught work of siting data’s material manifestations in relation to landforms and earth processes, local politics, national narratives, and still-open questions of spatial justice and sovereignty. Doing so, it unsettles techno-utopian ideals of connectivity and offers a window into what it means to live with our data, in a place where more and more data now lives.
- Copyright:
- 2023
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 228 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780520396371
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780520396357, 9780520396364
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- Date of Addition:
- 10/24/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Image copyright
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.