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oapen-20.500.12657-375752020-05-05T08:16:03Z The Politics of Micro-Decisions Sprenger, Florian media studies, networking, materiality, surveillance, Internet architecture, infrastructure, micro-decisions, power, net neutrality, Paul Baran, Edward Snowden bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio Be it in the case of opening a website, sending an email, or high-frequency trading, bits and bytes of information have to cross numerous nodes at which micro-decisions are made. These decisions concern the most efficient path through the network, the processing speed, or the priority of incoming data packets. Despite their multifaceted nature, micro-decisions are a dimension of control and surveillance in the twenty-first century that has received little critical attention. They represent the smallest unit and the technical precondition of a contemporary network politics – and of our potential opposition to it. The current debates regarding net neutrality and Edward Snowden’s revelation of NSA surveillance are only the tip of the iceberg. What is at stake is nothing less than the future of the Internet as we know it. 2020-05-04T14:51:04Z 2020-05-04T14:51:04Z 2015 book Book_9783957960405_20200504_33 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37575 eng Digital Cultures application/pdf Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International 9783957960412-Sprenger-The_Politics_of_Micro-Descisions.pdf meson press 10.14619/005 10.14619/005 4d4a8ec1-ecfe-4e5c-bc76-d4ece9897968 ScholarLed 128 open access
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Be it in the case of opening a website, sending an email, or high-frequency trading, bits and bytes of information have to cross numerous nodes at which micro-decisions are made. These decisions concern the most efficient path through the network, the processing speed, or the priority of incoming data packets. Despite their multifaceted nature, micro-decisions are a dimension of control and surveillance in the twenty-first century that has received little critical attention. They represent the smallest unit and the technical precondition of a contemporary network politics – and of our potential opposition to it. The current debates regarding net neutrality and Edward Snowden’s revelation of NSA surveillance are only the tip of the iceberg. What is at stake is nothing less than the future of the Internet as we know it.
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