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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taffel, Sy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication and culture.

Cyberspace--Philosophy.

Cyberspace.

Digital media--Social aspects.

Digital media.

Information society.

Media Ethics.

Media Theory.

New Media and Technology.

Local Subjects:

Media Ethics.

Media Theory.

New Media and Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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HTML

PDF

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501349270

1501349279

9781501349263

1501349260

9781501349256

1501349252

OCLC:

1126543594