News and Research articles on InfrastructureHow does resistance evolve under the pressure of datafication? People adopt defensive and productive tactics to resist the harms and risks of a data-driven society.
Against the backdrop of ongoing public and political debates about the power and regulation of large platform conglomerates, this special issue presents critical, conceptual, and empirical studies that home in on the various modalities of platform power.
The article outlines and discusses the methodological conditions for studying software development kits as an empirical entry point to research on mobile infrastructures for datafication.
The connectivity potential of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites will be hindered if they are operating at the will of private interests and their political alliances.
When we look at the recent Twitter-Mastodon exodus, we see a new trend of responsibilisation or placing the burden someplace else — from platform to user.
This opinion piece looks at resilience in science in the context of digital transformation.
This paper considers the logic of ‘platform care’ as a continuation of historically invisibilised reproductive labour.
A proposal, informed by feminist theory, for a policy agenda of “governable spaces” across the domains of social media, gig economies, and network infrastructure.
Since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 our international system is based upon the principle of territorial sovereignty. Today, however, cross-border online spaces made possible by the internet span across a system of fragmented national jurisdictions. Tension rises since we do not have the legal equivalent to the technical interoperability that enables the global internet. A choice has to be made.
Technical standardisation is caught up in politics. At the 88th IETF meeting starting today in Vancouver engineers discuss reactions to mass surveillance.
"Did I leave the light on when leaving the house?" 5 kilometres from home, Nathalie Trenaman finds the answer to her question via her mobile phone. In her spare time, she implemented the IPv6 protocol onto home devices to try to figure out if IPv6 is the driver behind the Internet of Things?
The 4th generation mobile or LTE network coverage in the European Union looks like a patchwork blanket. Reasons for the different speeds in building and offering the newest mobile broadband network vary, and as Monika Ermert finds out, business analysts simply cannot agree.
Private actors in the information technology sector are currently playing an increasingly important role in content mediation, as well as in regulation of online forms of expression, with implications for both internet rights and economic freedom. The latest Google Transparency Report (Google, 2013) released on January 24, 2013, sends a clear and somewhat disquieting message to the advocates of a more transparent internet governance worldwide. Several governments in the European Union are submitting a steadily increasing number of requests to the giant of online information search, with two purposes: the acquisition of several types of sensitive information about internet users – including …