Description
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.
Author: Alix Johnson
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 10/24/2023
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780520396364
ISBN10: 0520396367
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | General
- Social Science | Technology Studies
- Computers | Software Development & Engineering | General
Author: Alix Johnson
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 10/24/2023
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780520396364
ISBN10: 0520396367
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | General
- Social Science | Technology Studies
- Computers | Software Development & Engineering | General