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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Satellite Spectacular. Our World and the Fantasy of Global Presence -- 2 Satellite Footprints. 47 Imparja tv and Postcolonial Flows in Australia -- 3 Satellite Witnessing. Views and Coverage of the War in Bosnia -- Satellite Archaeology. Remote Sensing Cleopatra in Egypt -- 5 Satellite Panoramas. Astronomical Observation and Remote Control -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

In 1960, the US government and British protectorate of Zanzibar signed an agreement that allowed US contractors working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to build an earth station that would support Project Mercury, the first manned US satellite mission. This article focuses on the development of the Project Mercury earth station in Zanzibar during 1959-1964. To historicize the earth station's establishment, the focus lies on the geopolitical and sociotechnical relations that resulted in the Zanzibar station.

In 1960, the US government and British protectorate of Zanzibar signed an agreement that allowed US contractors working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to build an earth station that would support Project Mercury, the first manned US satellite mission. This article focuses on the development of the Project Mercury earth station in Zanzibar during 1959-1964. To historicize the earth station's establishment, the focus lies on the geopolitical and sociotechnical relations that resulted in the Zanzibar station.

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Airing: US Television's Vertical Turns -- chapter 2 Searching: Screening Practices at US Airport Security Checkpoints -- chapter 3 Monitoring: Geospatial Imagery and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- chapter 4 Targeting: Mediating US Drone Wars.

This interdisciplinary volume explores the historical, juridical, geopolitical, and cultural dimensions of drone technology and warfare, showing how drones generate ways of understanding the world, shape the ways lives are lived and ended on the ground, and operate within numerous mechanisms of militarized state power.

"The contributors to Signal Traffic investigate how the material artifacts of media infrastructure--transoceanic cables, mobile telephone towers, Internet data centers, and the like--intersect with everyday life. Essayists confront the multiple and hybrid forms networks take, the different ways networks are imagined and engaged with by publics around the world, their local effects, and what human beings experience when a network fails. Some contributors explore the physical objects and industrial relations that make up an infrastructure. Others venture into the marginalized communities orphaned from the knowledge economies, technological literacies, and epistemological questions linked to infrastructural formation and use. The wide-ranging insights delineate the oft-ignored contrasts between industrialized and developing regions, rich and poor areas, and urban and rural settings, bringing technological differences into focus. Contributors include Charles R. Acland, Paul Dourish, Sarah Harris, Jennifer Holt and Patrick Vonderau, Shannon Mattern, Toby Miller, Lisa Parks, Christian Sandvig, Nicole Starosielski, Jonathan Sterne, and Helga Tawil-Souri"--

Down to Earth presents the first comprehensive overview of the geopolitical maneuvers, financial investments, technological innovations, and ideological struggles that take place behind the scenes of the satellite industry. Satellite projects that have not received extensive coverage—microsatellites in China, WorldSpace in South Africa, SiriusXM, the failures of USA 193 and Cosmos 954, and Iridium—are explored. This collection takes readers on a voyage through a truly global industry, from the sites where satellites are launched to the corporate clean rooms where they are designed, and along the orbits and paths that satellites traverse. Combining a practical introduction to the mechanics of the satellite industry, a history of how its practices and technologies have evolved, and a sophisticated theoretical analysis of satellite cultures, Down to Earth opens up a new space for global media studies

En partant de recherches féministes, cet article explore comment l'usage de drones militaires par les États-Unis a (re)organisé la vie quotidienne de certaines régions en créant une nouvelle classe. Celle-ci est caractérisée par son statut de cible privilégiée des attaques et le fait qu'elle soit dépossédée de ses droits les plus fondamentaux à travers des pratiques de « médiation verticale ». Dans cette perspective, l'article soutient qu'une étude critique des drones et de la guerre se doit d'inclure une réflexion sur les champs verticaux qui structurent, depuis les airs, la vie sur terre. Il s'agit notamment d'analyser les ressources physiques qui constituent les champs verticaux (essence, travail, terre, matériaux, réseaux, données, ciel et orbite) ainsi que les hiérarchies que leur contrôle implique. Il est certes important de considérer la façon dont la guerre des drones est régie par des systèmes qui relèvent du contrôle à distance, de la simulation et du jeu. Mais il est tout aussi primordial de prendre en compte ses dimensions plus terrestres et incarnées ainsi que les paysages et les autotopographies où s'inscrit l'usage des drones, et qui enregistrent leurs effets.

A slow shutdown is an ensemble of flexible state regulations implemented over time that have the effect of prohibiting, interrupting, or making too costly online content creation. A slow shutdown differs from a technical shutdown in which a state authority blocks access to the Internet or platforms within its sovereign boundaries, usually for a short period. This article conceptualizes and delineates a slow shutdown in Tanzania. Using the method of process tracing, the article describes the Tanzania government's adoption of a series of repressive information and Internet regulations from 2010 to 2018 and analyzes its controversial 2018 online content regulations, which led many Tanzanians to cease expressive activities on the Internet. Drawing on Tanzanian policy documents, English-language national and international press coverage, nongovernmental organization reports, and Tanzanian blogs and websites, the study highlights the social impacts of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi party-led government's laws. It also extends research on media control and networked authoritarianism by demonstrating the variable forms, temporalities, and affects of Internet shutdowns and considering their relation to gender and class differences.