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... This chapter sets out the book’s main claims and outlines its theoretical vocabulary. It explores why undersea cables have remained absent in media and communications studies and in public perception. Arguing that a new mode of visibility is needed for cable systems, the chapter delineates...

... This chapter summarizes the main arguments of the book’s six chapters and outlines how these arguments translate into a politics of undersea networks. These include a call to diversify the limited range of cable narratives and cable routings; to develop content for variable levels...

... This chapter examines the popular and industrial representation of undersea cables. It argues that most stories about undersea cables fit into one of two narrative modes: connection narratives and disruption narratives. The chapter traces these narratives’ spatial and temporal limitations...

... This chapter analyzes conflicts at the cable landing point, the zone where undersea cables emerge from the deep ocean and extend through coastal waters, beaches, and local communities before connecting with cable stations. The chapter describes how, because these public spaces cannot be walled...

... terrestrial, urban, or demand-driven logics. Rather, it shows how transpacific cable systems have been constructed in relation to concerns about security, interconnection, and diversity. undersea cable network fiber-optic security network ...

... This chapter analyzes the lasting influence undersea cables have had on our knowledge about and inhabitation of the ocean. The chapter first documents the relationship between early oceanography and telegraph cable networks, which together helped to chart a distinct set of paths across the ocean...

... This chapter details the history of the transoceanic cable station. It describes how stations served as a gateway to undersea networks, a site of connection to local publics, and a zone where boundaries between system and environment are contested. The first three sections of the chapter cover...

... This chapter charts how network nodes are shaped by the politics, histories, and geographies of islands across the Pacific. The chapter counters the existing conceptual opposition between the networks and islands, and instead reveals how islands have been critical to transpacific cable systems...

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