Refiguration of Cyberspace - by Sezgin Sönmez & Silke Steets (Paperback)

About the Book

An exploration of the spatial refiguration of the Internet from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Book Synopsis

As an increasingly conflicted infrastructure, the materiality and spatiality of the Internet is continuously shaped and reshaped by strategic actions, spatial imaginaries, representations, and corresponding material figurations, asserting forms of spatial control over parts of the Internet infrastructure. The contributions to this volume are centered around the thesis of a refiguration of cyberspace, which ties in with the debates of recent years about the territorialization, fragmentation, pluralization, and splintering of the Internet. The contributors facilitate an interdisciplinary debate on the global transformation of the Internet and its digital infrastructures, focusing particularly on space and relational dynamics.

About the Author

Sezgin Sönmez, born in 1983, is a sociologist and postdocotoral researcher at Technische Universität Berlin, where he also received his PhD in 2023. He is a research associate at the Collaborative Research Center 1265 »Re-Figuration of Spaces« in the project B02 Control/Space, which analyzes the spatiality of digital infrastructures in contextures, maps, and discourses. His research interests include the sociology of knowledge, discourse analysis, digitalisation, and cybersecurity.

Silke Steets (Prof. Dr. phil.), geb. 1973, ist Professorin für Soziologische Theorie an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg und Projektleiterin im Sonderforschungsbereich 1265 »Refiguration von Räumen«. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Stadtsoziologie, Raum- und Architektursoziologie, Religionssoziologie und qualitative Forschungsmethoden.