"Kinetic Screens: epistemologies of movement at the interface" Lisa Parks pp.37-57

in Mediaspace: place, scale and culture in a media age
edited by Nick Couldry and Ann McCarthy      Routledge 2004

p. 39 The visualization of the user's movement through the World Wide Web, his/her process of navigation, is effaced at the interface. What we see, instead, is the economic mobility of digital corporations such as Microsoft and Netscape whose browsers feature animated logos which signal the movement data from servers to the monitor and reinforce the corporation's status as data portal, carrier or delivery system.
What is at stake here are issues of technological literacy. By effacing the infrastructure through which date moves, web interfaces tend to keep users naive about the apparatus that organizes and facilitates online navigations and how its processes occur in time and extend across space.

p40 Since most interfaces are designed for either maximum efficiency or an aesthetic that Alan Liu calls ''information cool," they tend not to circulate technical knowledge about their own operation, and thus as they circulate data they perpetuate 'knowledge gaps' between experts and amateurs and information and poor communities.

p49-50
The Basel Action Network (BAN) is an international activist consortium that investigates hazardous waste conditions worldwide. It emerged in 1992 after the adoption of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous wastes and their Disposal, and one of the organization's most recent and high profile projects has been the investigation of the e-waste crisis in Asia. (www.ban.org)