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Emergent Networks of Self-Organization: Communication Technologies, Social Infrastructure, and the Production of Everynight Lives
This project explores how India's information technology (IT) outsourcing industry reshapes the everynight lived realities of tech workers in Hyderabad's HITEC City, India. Indian IT workers serve U.S. clients across flipped time zones and working through the night while tethered to American daytime business hours. These fiber-optic cables, and transnational tech workers are not merely technical infrastructure; they are the constitutive material geography of an extractive spatial relation that bind bodies, capital, imperial communication networks, and territories. Two questions anchor this inquiry: How does fiber-optic infrastructure shape worker’s digital environments, daily routines and transnational extractive geography? And how do these workers build informal digital support systems to navigate the spatial vulnerabilities of the nocturnal tech city?

Using walk-along video ethnography, participatory vlogging and archival research, I document the everynight experiences of night workers and the often-overlooked fiber-optic cable infrastructure sustaining them. The goal is to share these stories through collaborative media contents, including vlogs, podcasts, and interactive maps as public geography that confronts the power asymmetries embedded in global IT networks.