Particularly in the Global North but also the Global South, the information networks and communication protocols that underlie media infrastructures are designed and operated by private, corporate entities.
It is a myth that rural communities, Indigenous people and the Global South are not interested in media and the digital world, but sadly our current media infrastructures carry little - if any - input from these large sections of humanity.
And since the media infrastructure in Siberia isn't developed quite well yet, we're being left on our own.
The Silicon Valley company, which describes itself as a "supplier of digital media infrastructure solutions for the consumer marketplace," has never publicly discussed its role in the iPod.
The immediacy of our mobile media infrastructure gives us a head start in setting the mood of the moment, providing instant access on the ground to local stories and reactions.
Temasek, which has a wide-ranging portfolio spanning financial services, telecoms, media, infrastructure and other sectors, is nursing losses from prominent investments that it made in Merrill Lynch and Barclays as it aggressively expanded outside its core Asian market.
Even in Cairo, although it is still technically banned as a party, the Brotherhood's entrance into the political system and national media infrastructure has turned an 80-year-old social movement into just another part of Egyptian culture.
At its heart, Mr. Sun's speech heralded China's impending entry into the World Trade Organization and called for foreign investment in the country's media infrastructure, from opening theater chains to distributing videotapes and music recordings.
Ultimately, this is a fight between the influence of NBC, which has poured billions of dollars into televising the Summer and Winter Games, and the U.S.O.C., which wants to build a valuable TV asset but lacks a media infrastructure.
The Knight Commission Report on the Information Needs of Communities does a wonderful job of reviewing the type of civic and media infrastructure that is needed if regions of the country are going to be able to manage massive scale problems like climate and energy.
But what really makes conservatives effective is their pre-existing media infrastructure, composed of local and national talk-radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, the Fox News Channel and sensationalist say-anything outlets like the Drudge Report -- all of which are quick to pass on the latest tidbit from the blogosphere.
