As a PhD film and media student Nicole Starosielski was interested in ways of documenting and exploring the oceans. “I was thinking about shark documentaries and remote-operated vehicles.” But Starosielski’s advisor suggested something a bit less flashy: subsea internet cables. “I thought ‘that’s so boring,’” recalls Starosielski in this 101 in 101 video, a series from UC Berkeley that challenges professors and other experts to condense their field of study into a mere 101 seconds. Starosielski indulged her advisor and looked into the cables and found that they carry over 99 percent of all internet traffic across the ocean. That number holds to this day. Today Starosielski is one of the leading global experts on subsea networks and is a professor in the Department of Film & Media with undergraduate and graduate students from all over the world coming to study with her at Berkeley. Not so boring after all! And yes, Starosielski says, it really is a series of tubes, albeit very small tubes. For full story, visit: https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/04/10/... Video by Sean Patrick Farrell http://news.berkeley.edu/ http://www.facebook.com/UCBerkeley http://twitter.com/UCBerkeley http://instagram.com/ucberkeleyofficial
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