Where Cloud Is Ground
Placing Data and Making Place in Iceland
Gebonden Engels 2023 9780520396357Samenvatting
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.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Note on Language and Naming
Introduction: Putting Data in Its Place
PART I ARTICUTION
1. A Natural Fit
2. The Switzerland of Bits
PART II ANCHORING
3. Something from Nothing
4. Data Centers, Data Peripheries
PART III EXCESS
5. Inside Out
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan
