Warning
Do Not Dig’: Negotiating the Visibility of Critical Infrastructures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8103531 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicole Starosielski (0000-0003-4793-3513, 210 Williams Hall, Department of Communication, Miami University, Oxford, OH, 45056, USA. [email: ], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 38-57 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Visual Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-4129 • E-ISSN: 1741-2994 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1470412911430465 |
| OpenAlex | W2314746006 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 10 |
This article highlights the visual traces of undersea cables, technologies that carry the majority of transoceanic telecommunications traffic, in order to make visible the material systems that support an ‘immaterial’ internet. The author documents the cultural production of these traces, recording how infrastructural visibility must be negotiated at points where cables cross through public spaces, including beaches, highways, and state parks. By examining the cultural conflicts over cables in California and O‘ahu, the article shows how telecommunications companies reorganize visual space to protect the cable, using diverse media such as nautical charts and warning signs. The cultural specificity of these representations testifies to the ways in which global cable systems develop in relation to local spatial politics. The article seeks to broaden research on infrastructure’s invisibility, disruption, and sensationalization to include the ‘existing visibilities’ of undersea cables as they are constituted in everyday life and material environments
Architectural engineering · Business · Computer security · Everyday life · Geography · Invisibility · Media studies · Meteorology · Negotiation · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Public space · Relation (database · Sociology · State (computer science · Telecommunications · The Internet · Visibility · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |