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Digital Media Ecologies: Entanglements of Content, Code and Hardware

Autor Sy Taffel
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 apr 2021
Our digital world is often described using terms such as immateriality and virtuality. The discourse of cloud computing is the latest in a long line of nebulous, dematerialising tropes which have come to dominate how we think about information and communication technologies. Digital Media Ecologies argues that such rhetoric is highly misleading, and that engaging with the key cultural, agential, ethical and political impacts of contemporary media requires that we do not just engage with the surface level of content encountered by the end users of digital media, but that we must additionally consider the affordances of software and hardware. Whilst numerous existing approaches explore content, software and hardware individually, Digital Media Ecologies provides a critical intervention by insisting that addressing contemporary technoculture requires a synthetic approach that traverses these three registers. 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501379949
ISBN-10: 1501379941
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Synthesizes key insights from several areas of contemporary media and cultural studies (software studies, infrastructure studies, digital cultural studies) that are currently distinct, to address media as systems rather than texts

Notă biografică

Sy Taffel is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Massey University, Aotearoa, New Zealand. He has published work on the political ecologies of digital media; media and materiality; media and activism; and pervasive/locative media. He is a co-editor of Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene (2016).

Cuprins

1. Introduction: Re-thinking Media EcologyScale and Digital TechnocultureDigital Divisions and InfrastructuresWriting, Complexity and FormChapter Outlines2. Technology, Complexity and AgencyTechnological Determinism and Social ConstructivismAgency and Systems ThinkingAssemblages and AffordancesOpen Systems and Virtual GeographiesComplexity Theory and Technological DeterminismNetworks and MeshworksTechnology and (Post)human Agencies3. Ecology and EthicsThe Three EcologiesRhizomes and ArborescenceEthics of the Machinic PhylumCommodities and CommonwealthA Conceptual Toolbox for Media Ecology4. Flows of Attention and DataEconomies of AttentionUnderstanding Content through Big DataClimategate or the Scandal that Wasn'tContent in Communicative Capitalism5. Ecologies of SoftwareFree, Open, and ClosedJailbreaking iPhones and Magic LanternsDrivers, Anti-Features and DRMCrawling the WebConflicts and Agency in Code and Design6. Materiality and Digital Infrastructures Blood Coltan and Rare EarthsVirtual? SweatshopsPowering Digital CultureThe Global Trade in E-WasteLinear and Cyclical Models of ProductionBeyond Planned Obsolescence7. Enacting Change Across Digital Media EcologiesPhone StoryOpen Source EcologyCritical Instabilities and Lines of FlightFeedback, Participation and HierarchyEcological PraxisA Biopolitics for the AnthropoceneBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Digital media, you say? Taffel's fantastic book responds: you probably meant this multi-scalar entangled reality of energy and matter, software and hardware, humans and technology, all in complex feedback loops that we need to map and unravel if we want to dig ourselves out of this planetary scale mediated mess we got ourselves - and our companion species - in!
Ecology is not just a metaphor in Sy Taffel's powerfully optimistic take on media ecology. Media are ecological, looting resources, dumping waste, and at the same time connecting us to our world. Taffel proposes that we stand at a decisive moment between the triumph of network capital and new ways of moving from consumerism to commonwealth. In a powerful series of case studies, Taffel shows how human mediation can stop being the problem and become the solution.
Traversing complex scales of entanglement, Sy Taffel's rich account of media ecologies provides a much needed update on the materiality of media networks. Registering astutely the crises of our times, Taffel asks how we might reorient our imaginaries, practices and economies in ways that don't submit to the dystopian horrors of the Anthropocene. Theoretically sophisticated and succinctly written, Digital Media Ecologies is a most welcome addition to the nascent field of research on environmental media and new materialism.