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Record Nr.

UNISA996214904103316

Autore

Gabrys Jennifer

Titolo

Digital Rubbish : A Natural History of Electronics / / Jennifer Gabrys

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

0472117610

9780472117611 (hardback)

9780472035373 (paperback)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations; digital, HTML file(s)

Collana

digitalculturebooks

Disciplina

363.72/88

Soggetti

Electronic apparatus and appliances - History

Electronic waste

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-219) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : a natural history of electronics --Silicon elephants : the transformative materiality of microchips --Ephemeral screens : exchange at the interface --Shipping and receiving : circuits of disposal and the "social death" of electronics --Museum of failure : the mutability of electronic memory --Media in the dump : salvage stories and spaces of remainder -- Conclusion : digital rubbish theory.