Standard Research Grant: Representational Materialities of Internet Protocols

该项目将侧重于数字环境的代表性物质。它将研究材料的性质和后果的方式，位被安排在电线，数据结构被组织在磁盘上，数据库被安排，以支持特定类型的操作，和文本和图形表示是专为人类的视觉和认知处理。这个项目将有助于软件研究的发展领域，通过研究我们的互联网作为一个历史和地理上特定的对象。该项目将扩大我们对网络的理解，从设计对象到不断发展的对象。研究结果将反映公众对互联网监管和网络中立性的关注和政策。本研究项目将专注于数字基础设施、互联网协议设计中的代表性考虑以及构建网络运营的数字惯例。该方法将联合收割机技术科学材料与新兴软件研究领域的见解相结合，以记录数字用户和决策者的重要性，以及相互竞争的利益和要求。该项目还将包括与在这些系统的开发中发挥主导作用的人的访谈。该项目将有助于技术专家，社会科学家，政策制定者和监管机构之间的跨学科合作和参与，方法是将协议作为权力，影响力和控制的场所，以及它们所体现的政治理性和关系，提供反思，干预，重新配置和问责制的机会。

This project will focus on representational materialities of the digital environment. It will study the material properties and consequences of the way that bits are arranged in wires, data structures are organized on disks, databases are arranged to support specific kinds of operations, and textual and graphical representations are designed for human visual and cognitive processing. This project will contribute to the developing field of software studies by studying our internet as a historically- and geographically-specific object. The project will broaden our understanding of the network beyond a designed object to an evolving object. Findings will speak to public concerns and policies over internet regulation and network neutrality.This research project will focus on digital infrastructures, the representational considerations in the design of Internet protocols, and the digital conventions that structure network operations. The approach will combine technoscientific materialities with insights from the emerging field of Software Studies to document the significance to digital users and policy-makers, as well as, the competing interests and requirements. The project will also include interviews with people who have played leading roles in the development of these systems. The project will contribute to interdisciplinary collaboration and engagement between technologists, social scientists, policymakers, and regulators by unpacking the ways in which protocols act as sites of power, influence, and control, and the political rationalities and relationalities that they embody, provides opportunities for reflection, intervention, reconfiguration, and accountability.