The Undersea Network

Nicole Starosielski's *The Undersea Network* illuminates the crucial, yet often invisible, undersea cables that carry nearly all global internet traffic. Tracing these vital conduits from ocean depths to their landing zones in the South Pacific, Starosielski brings the network's material reality to the forefront of media scholarship, charting its complex cultural, historical, geographic, and environmental dimensions. She argues that these cable environments are historical and political realms, shaped by the intricate negotiation of technology, culture, politics, and geography. An accompanying interactive digital mapping project allows readers to explore cable routes, archival materials, and stories of island cable hubs.

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This literature has been indexed under the primary pillar of Technology. It was manually vetted for the Read For Truth database because it provides educational insights into Hardware, assisting researchers in locating established secondary research within this specific taxonomy.