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Record Nr.

UNINA9910975085403321

Autore

Taffel Sy

Titolo

Digital media ecologies : entanglements of content, code and hardware / / Sy Taffel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019

ISBN

9781501349270

1501349279

9781501349263

1501349260

9781501349256

1501349252

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 pages)

Disciplina

302.231

Soggetti

Communication and culture

Cyberspace - Philosophy

Digital media - Social aspects

Information society

Media Ethics

Media Theory

New Media and Technology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Theorising digital ecologies -- Technology, complexity and agency -- Ecology, ethics and collectives -- Ecologies of content, code and hardware -- Flows of attention and data -- Ecologies of software -- Materiality and digital infrastructures -- Enacting change across digital media ecologies.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--