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something about starlink and how that will never replace subsea cables with current technology, subsea cables send 99% of international data or something wil
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something about the interaction with and perception of wireless technologies like mobile data/5g/4g and wifi and how the subsea cable based infrastructure, labour involved in keeping it running, and the impacts on people and nature are all invisiblised.
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I keep saying physicality but what do I mean? The ways we interact with and are impacted by these technologies; pollution, land use, water use, fuel use, literally changing our bodies (tech neck, back pain, new calluses on hands from phone use)
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Decolonial theory
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Cyborgs
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E-waste in marginalised communities
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Globalised impacts
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War and race, international lines
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Physicality of intangible technology
- Unembodied save for where it serves big tech for it not to be
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Filter bubbles
- Real?
- Aggressive funneling
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Internet virality predetermined by algorithms
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Sociopolitical impact of internet and web technology on marginalised peoples
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Starlink as poor replacement for subsea cables
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Perception of wireless technologies
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Cable based infrastructure maintenance
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Labour
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invisibilisation
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Physicality of the web; what is it?
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