#Internet#Infrastructure#Geopolitics#PoliticalEconomy: "Rather than, or perhaps in addition to, concerns rooted in data collection and predicting behavior, we should focus on making internet infrastructure providers further visible as a central force of political power. To do so, I edited a book called Eaten by the Internet published by Meatspace Press. This book focuses on the internet and how the companies providing its technical backbone are transforming our world, from the bottom up. The book includes fifteen chapters contributed by a global set of researchers, activists, and techies. These include the President of the Signal Foundation Meredith Whittaker, renowned misinformation scholar Joan Donovan, legal scholar Jenna Ruddock, digital rights and EU policy expert Michael Veale, and the founders of the critical infrastructure lab at the University of Amsterdam–Niels ten Oever, Maxigas, and Fieke Jansen, and Oxford University’s expert of interstellar internet politics Yung Au—to name a few.
The authors carefully articulate the changing politics, and political economy, of internet infrastructure. In doing so, they are building on, and beyond, pioneering academic work in this field. This book considers how market power in the tech sector is rebuilding around the internet’s material infrastructure. Emphasizing the theme of continuity, Suzanne van Geuns draws a connection between the present-day ‘pipelines’ of internet infrastructure and the online forums that employ them for propagating hate, and the longstanding infrastructure associated with American imperialism in Asia. Indian technologist Gurshabad Grover, in their chapter, contends that there is a pressing need for a deeper understanding of the contemporary and emerging infrastructural mechanisms of government control in Asia, as a means of resistance." https://techpolicy.press/eaten-by-the-internet-putting-internet-infrastructure-power-on-your-radar/
