ana0
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1 year ago Hi everyone! Thank you for submitting a proposal to Our Networks 2047! We are currently re-working our issue template and website to make sure the format for this year's event is clear, since it's a little experimental :)
We are not hosting a conference, at least not where people actually present talks and workshops, but instead facilitating the creation of a wiki about a conference that could take place in 2047. We will use proposals made here to pre-seed the wiki with a "conference schedule". Between Nov 14 and 27, we will host a series of online writeathons, where we will make space for you to informally introduce your idea and expand on it yourself or with others
Just commenting directly here, because you opened this issue before the updates! We're sorry if the previous website copy or template was unclear - we would love to have your proposal be part of the wiki, and join you in conversation and co-writing!
aepasek
Description
Type: streamed talk Length: 30 minutes Date: between November 14-27 Duration: once Language: english
Objective
We'd like to detail struggles over the political ecology of data, focusing specifically on the link between the geographies of renewable energy and the emergence of network hubs in the telecommunications subsea cable system.
We'll specifically outline:
Presenter(s)
We are a team of researchers from the Sustainable Subsea Networks team, an Internet Society-funded project examining the potential role of the subsea telecommunications cables industry in decarbonizing the Internet. We would like to present as a group with our real names (in 2047, we would be getting old, but imagine ourselves still very much engaged by our present research questions).
Name: Anne Pasek Email: annepasek@trentu.ca Url(s): https://www.annepasek.com, https://www.sustainablesubseanetworks.com Twitter: @aepasek GitHub: https://github.com/aepasek
Name: Nicole Starosielski Email: ns119@nyu.edu
Name: Hunter Vaughan Email: hunter.vaughan@gmail.com
Name: George N. Ramírez Email: george.ramirez@nyu.edu
Name: Nicholas Silcox Email: nrs365@nyu.edu
Name: Iago Bojczuk Email: ib410@cam.ac.uk
Name: Anjali Sugadev Email: anjusuhadev@gmail.com
Presenter Bios
Anne Pasek is an Assistant Professor and the Canada Research Chair in Media, Culture, and the Environment at Trent University. Her research explores the cultural politics of climate change, with a particular emphasis on how carbon is enumerated and mobilized within the tech sector, climate denialism, and the arts.
Nicole Starosielski, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, is author or co-editor of over thirty articles and five books media, infrastructure, and environments, including The Undersea Network (2015), Media Hot and Cold (2021), and Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructure (2015).
Hunter Vaughan is Senior Research Associate at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge. He is founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Environmental Media.
George N. Ramírez is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, where his work focuses on sensation and performance in Latinx popular culture.
Nicholas Silcox is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of English at New York University where he is working on a dissertation on sensing and sensor technologies and environmentality. Nick is also a research assistant on the Sustainable Subsea Networks project.
Iago Bojczuk is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, where his work investigates the material, cultural, economic, and political dimensions of Big Tech infrastructures in the Global South.
Anjali Sugadev is an independent legal consultant in international and marine regulatory regimes. Her work focuses on the legal and policy challenges faced by submarine cable systems.