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

• Autore: Taffel Sy
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 pages)
• Disciplina: 302.231
• Soggetto topico: Communication and culture; Cyberspace - Philosophy; Digital media - Social aspects; Information society; Media Ethics; Media Theory; New Media and Technology
• 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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Digital media ecologies
• ISBN: 9781501349270; 1501349279; 9781501349263; 1501349260; 9781501349256; 1501349252
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910975085403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II