Ashwin Mathew is a Lecturer in Global Digital Cultures at the Department of Digital Humanities in King’s College, London. In his research, he studies the seemingly mundane everyday operation and governance of the Internet through a blend of sociological and technological analysis. His interest is in the intrinsic qualities of interdependence which characterize Internet infrastructure. He employs qualitative methods in his research to study the practices, communities and institutions of the technical personnel responsible for building and operating the interconnected, interdependent technological systems of Internet infrastructure.