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Debates in global media- Planetary Limits and Global Connections
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Parikka (2015), “[I]t is the earth that provides for media and enables it: the minerals, materials of(f) the ground, the affordances of its geophysical reality that make technical media happen."
Business Insider states: the internet contributes 1.6 billion annual tons in greenhouse gas emissions
The Telegraph states: Data centres using drinking water to cool down servers during UK drought
Maxwell and Miller (2021), environmentalist perspective
Forti et al (2020, p. 23) E-waste in numbers
In 2019, approximately 53.6 million metric tons of electronic and electric waste (WEEE) was generated globally.
The annual amount of e-waste will exceed 74 million metric tons by 2030.
Global Transboundary E-Waste Flows Monitor - 2022
, 83% treatment of e-waste is unknown, it's likely dumped, traded or recycled in a non-compliant or non-environmentally sound way
Gabry's (2019)
This assessment of the "state of media and environment" suggests that the current planetary crises of climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, land- use change, and resource shortages are entangled with the proliferation of technologies that would manage environments and extract resources while technologies that would manage environments and extract resources while promoting sustainability.
Or, alternatively, to what extent do they monitor a crisis that they have helped to create?
Yet in researching and practicing in this area of media and environment, it is worthwhile to question: How do these environmental and environment, technologies help to mitigate the escalation of a warming and polluted planet?
critical questions
How do media technologies mediate ecology and construct notions such as “climate change” and “sustainability”?
Is cultural/media imperialism at play in the mediation of ecological crises?
models construct climate change
No one can feel/experience the climate as such (you can feel the weather)
Models mediate the climate
Climate change is a construct: a data-driven, algorithmic construct
Quantifying climate change
climate clockl
carbon budget
Mastercard’s new carbon tracking app
green capitalism, customers end up spending more
AI-based “context awareness engine” for nudges when you are about to make a purchase (Eevie, Mastercard).
to what extent is media imperialism at stakl in the construction of climate change as a discourse and policy topic?
what are the advantages and disadvantages of having a single discourse about climate change, primarily revolving around levels of CO2 emissions
what kind of definitions or perspectives on global media does ecomedia studies add
Sustainability
criticall analysisl
Datafication, quantification, algorithms, and AI are at the heart of sustainability narratives. How do corporate “smart” technologies mediate ecology and shape our understandings of “sustainability”?
How do these technologies and techniques mobilize and legitimate certain actors to address this problem?
How do datafication and quantification marginalize or exclude other perspectives and experiences? Does this replicate the inequalities of media/cultural imperialism?
Gabrys (2019)
impact bigger on indeginous communities, farmers or people who live close to nature