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A conversation with Nicole Starosielski
Monday, October 11, 2021
Noon – 1 p.m. PT
Online
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Nicole Starosielski is an associate professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University and an author and co-editor of many books on media, infrastructure, and environments: The Undersea Network (2015), Media Hot and Cold (2021), Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructure (2015), Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment (2016), Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media (2021), as well as co-editor of the “Elements” series at Duke University Press. Starosielski’s most recent project involves working with the subsea cable industry—which lays the transnational links of the internet--to generate a carbon footprint of the global links of our digital network and to make cable infrastructures more sustainable.