Digital Media Ecologies
Subtitle: Entanglements of Content, Code and Hardware
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781501349249
Subjects: Digital media; Cyberspace; Communication and culture; Information society
Description: "Digital Media Ecologies re-envisions the methodological approach of media ecology to go beyond the metaphor of a symbolic information environment that exists alongside a material world of tantalum, turtles and tornados. It illustrates the social, cultural, political and environmental impacts of contemporary media assemblages through examples that include mining conflict-sustaining minerals, climate change blogging, iOS jailbreaking, and the ecological footprint of contemporary computing infrastructures. Alongside foregrounding the deleterious social and environmental impacts of digital technologies, the book considers numerous ways that these issues are being tackled by a heterogeneous array of activists, academics, hackers, scientists and citizens using the same technological assemblages that ostensibly cause these problems"--