This paper addresses the public contestation of rollout fifth generation mobile telecommunications networks (5G) in Netherlands. Drawing on Pfaffenberger’s framework technological dramas, we analyze variety symbolic expressions about 5G made documents published by “design constituencies” leading technology’s implementation, “ambivalent intermediaries” reporting 5G’s implementation and its emerg...

This article traces the history of machine-readable data encoding standards and argues that QR code has become an infrastructural gateway. Through analysis patents, corporate documents advertising, ethnographic observations, interviews with professionals, I describe global making argue convergence standards, mobile computing, machine vision algorithms, platform ecosystems led to emergence a new...

Recalling the well-known strategy of “following money” when investigating underlying power structures and business models legacy media, this article argues that studies digital political economies can benefit instead from following data. Combining perspectives critical data infrastructure research, we first discuss how direct money flows be difficult to trace in ecosystems, creating a need for ...