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Schwebende Infrastrukturen: Project Loons extraterritoriale Ballons und die Medien der Stratosphäre

Translated title of the contribution: Floating Infrastructures. : Project Loon’s Extraterritorial Balloons and the Media of the Stratosphere
  • Hannah Zindel

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    Abstract

    Since 2013 Google has sent hundreds of balloons into the stratosphere. They provide Internet access to regions that are restricted or not connected to the World Wide Web at all. With this geographically large-scale network, the company acts simultaneously as a telecommunications operator and Internet service provider, beyond the scope of familiar legislative authority. A historically informed perspective on these Internet balloons traces which political, technical, and epistemic concepts of the stratosphere Google takes up, changes, and constitutes with its Internet balloons. It places these concepts in context of discourses about the Internet for All, histories of unmanned balloon flights, and stratosphere simulations.
    Translated title of the contributionFloating Infrastructures. : Project Loon’s Extraterritorial Balloons and the Media of the Stratosphere
    Original languageGerman
    JournalZeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft
    Volume23
    Issue number2
    Pages (from-to)153–167
    Number of pages15
    ISSN1869-1722
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2020

    Research areas and keywords

    • Media and communication studies
    • Infrastrut

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