The Spring 2023 issue of NECSUS features a special section exploring #Ports in media cultures. The port constitutes a geographic site enabling travel and trade which is also embedded in the larger digital culture in other ways. Our everyday experience of ‘ports’ encompasses not only interactions with waterfront places of labour and leisure but more broadly entry points connecting devices and their users to wider networks of information and commerce. Ports enable thinking about material processes of mediation, transport, and commodification, as well as the circulation of people, goods, and ideas. Guest editors María Vélez-Serna and Markus Stauff have assembled a selection of papers that aim to expand thinking about European media through the imaginary of the port as location and medium. In their introduction, they lay out the various social and imaginary, ecological, political, and economic stakes tied to ports as infrastructural nodes. Accordingly, the contributions to this special section rely on a variety of infrastructural and materialist approaches in media studies, and shed light on practices of extractivism, bordering, and memory enacted in and through  ports.