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Events for Wednesday, May 8, 2024

3:00 pm

Infrastructural Encounters: Ethnographic perspectives on telecommunication in the Arctic – Mette Simonsen Abildgaard, Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University Copenhagen

May 8 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
2135 SSMS Building, SSMS Building
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4010 United States
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Infrastructural Encounters: Ethnographic perspectives on telecommunication in the Arctic

How do digital infrastructures shape the experiences of those positioned as living ‘on the margins’? This has been the central question guiding my research over the past five years, which has focused on sea-cables, wi-fi networks, mobile plans, satellites, and other infrastructures of telecommunication in Greenland. Another big question has been: How can we study … Continued

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