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 ...

5G has the potential to expand horizons of digital inclusion by providing higher speeds, lower latency, and support for more devices on a given network. However, mis‐ disinformation about proliferated in recent years stands be persistent barrier adoption this generation wireless technologies. After rumours linking Covid‐19 emerged wake pandemic, isolated actors attempted disrupt infrastructure ...

Since 2015 when migration across the Mediterranean was declared a “crisis” in Europe, language of crisis and invasion has persisted, structuring conversations political imaginations. This led many to argue for strict closure borders deportation migrants or “people on move,” 1 deepening set racisms within borders. But this also less publicized, opposing struggle against borders, service more ega...