Media and the ecological crisis /

"Media and the Ecological Crisis is a collaborative work of interdisciplinary writers engaged in mapping, understanding and addressing the complex contribution of media to the current ecological crisis. The book is informed by a fusion of scholarly, practitioner, and activist interests to infor...

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Other Authors: Maxwell, Richard, 1957- (Editor), Raundalen, Jon (Editor), Vestberg, Nina Lager (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2014
Series:Routledge research in cultural and media studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Powering the digital: from energy ecologies to electronic environmentalism / Jennifer Garbys
  • Immaterial culture? The (un)sustainability of screens / Paul Micklethwaite
  • Damaged nature: the media ecology of auto-destructive art / Synnøve Marie Vik
  • Documenting depletion: of algorithmic machines, experience streams, and plastic people / Soenke Zehle
  • E-waste, human-waste, infoflation / Sophia Kaitatzi-Whitlock
  • Greening media studies / Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller
  • Tech support: how technological utopianism in the media is driving consumption / Jon Raundalen
  • Where did nature go? Is the ecological crisis perceptible within the current theoretical frameworks of journalism research? / Roy Krøvel
  • Narrating the climate crisis in Africa: the press, social imaginaries, and harsh realities / Ibrahim Saleh
  • Putting the eco into media ecosystems: bridging media practice with green cultural citizenship / Antonio López