meson press repository

The Politics of Micro-Decisions : Edward Snowden, Net Neutrality, and the Architectures of the Internet

Dublin Core

Title

The Politics of Micro-Decisions : Edward Snowden, Net Neutrality, and the Architectures of the Internet

Subject

Cyberculture
Media Studies
Network Culture
Technology

Description

Be it in the case of opening a website, sending an email, or high-frequency trading, bits and bytes of information have to cross numerous nodes at which micro-decisions are made. These decisions concern the most efficient path through the network, the processing speed, or the priority of incoming data packets.

Despite their multifaceted nature, micro-decisions are a dimension of control and surveillance in the twenty-first century that has received little critical attention. They represent the smallest unit and the technical precondition of a contemporary network politics – and of our potential opposition to it. The current debates regarding net neutrality and Edward Snowden’s revelation of NSA surveillance are only the tip of the iceberg. What is at stake is nothing less than the future of the Internet as we know it.
Series: Digital Cultures Series

Creator

Sprenger, Florian

Publisher

meson press

Date

2015

Rights

CC-BY-SA 4.0

Format

Print
PDF
EPUB

Language

English

Type

Book

Identifier

ISBN Print: 978-3-95796-040-5
ISBN PDF: 978-3-95796-041-2
ISBN EPUB: 978-3-95796-042-9
DOI: 10.14619/005

Book

Title

The Politics of Micro-Decisions

Subtitle

Edward Snowden, Net Neutrality, and the Architectures of the Internet

Author/Editor

Sprenger, Florian

Publisher

meson press

Year Published

2015

Blurb

Be it in the case of opening a website, sending an email, or high-frequency trading, bits and bytes of information have to cross numerous nodes at which micro-decisions are made. These decisions concern the most efficient path through the network, the processing speed, or the priority of incoming data packets.

Despite their multifaceted nature, micro-decisions are a dimension of control and surveillance in the twenty-first century that has received little critical attention. They represent the smallest unit and the technical precondition of a contemporary network politics – and of our potential opposition to it. The current debates regarding net neutrality and Edward Snowden’s revelation of NSA surveillance are only the tip of the iceberg. What is at stake is nothing less than the future of the Internet as we know it.

Keywords

Cyberculture
Media Studies
Network Culture
Technology

Series

Digital Cultures Series

ISBN Print

978-3-95796-040-5

ISBN PDF

978-3-95796-041-2

ISBN EPUB

978-3-95796-042-9

DOI

10.14619/005

Rights

CC-BY-SA 4.0

Language

English

Type

Book

Format

Print
PDF
EPUB

Files

9783957960412-Sprenger -The_Politics_of_Micro-Descisions.pdf

Citation

Sprenger, Florian, “The Politics of Micro-Decisions : Edward Snowden, Net Neutrality, and the Architectures of the Internet,” meson press repository, accessed March 28, 2024, http://omeka.meson.press/items/show/7.