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Ciafone, Amanda M McCarthy, Cameron Ciafone, Amanda M Hay, James Chan, Anita S. Prieto Nanez, Fabian Mauricio 2020-03-02T21:57:59Z 2020-03-02T21:57:59Z 2019-09-26 2019-12 The first satellite dish arrived in the South American country of Colombia in 1970. Two decades later, hundreds of them covered the roofs of apartment buildings, community centers, and town halls all around the country. This dissertation follows the trajectory of big satellite dishes by looking at a network that connects amateurs in the United States and traders in Miami and Medellín to populations living in urban and rural Colombia. In a timescale of forty years, big satellite dishes changed not only technologically, but also in how government agents, businesses, and users conceived of them. Grounded in infrastructure studies of media and Latin American communication and science and technology studies, this dissertation looks at three particular aspects: the role of informal infrastructures in the development of technological modernity, the labor and knowledge of local technicians needed in transitions in media technologies, and the participation of media infrastructures in the production of culture. Despite considered stable and finished, infrastructure design and maintenance reveal an important set of values connecting culture and technology. In the case of television, the dissertation explores a network of actors, objects and practices that impacted urban and rural spaces and shaped understanding of intellectual property in a Latin American Country. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2020-02-28 without embargo terms The student, Fabian Prieto Nanez, accepted the attached license on 2019-09-24 at 13:44. The student, Fabian Prieto Nanez, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-09-24 at 13:52. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2019-09-26 at 09:18. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #14473 on 2020-02-28 at 17:11:55 Made available in DSpace on 2020-03-02T21:57:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 PRIETONANEZ-DISSERTATION-2019.pdf: 7834479 bytes, checksum: 510248414224bf07f61d6480de201347 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4216 bytes, checksum: 16123c195ca1436a26dbcef0cdb6e3b0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2019-09-26 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/106161 en Copyright 2019 Fabian Prieto Nanez Infrastructures, Television, informality, Colombia, satellite, community, surdesarrollo A residual infrastructure. The rise and obsolescence of big satellite television dishes in Colombia text text Inst of Communications Rsch Communications and Media University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.