Finite media : environmental implications of digital technologies /
By: Cubitt, Sean
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BookPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.Description: viii, 244 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780822362920Subject(s): Digital media -- Environmental aspects | Digital media -- Political aspects | Digital media -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 302.231 CU FI Online resources: Location Map
Summary:
Sean Cubitt offers a large scale rethinking of theories of mediation by describing the ecological footprint of media. He investigates the energy, material, and space needed to create, operate, and dispose of electronic devices, and shows how changing how we use media is the only solution to planetary devastation.
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"A cultural politics book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Energy -- Matter -- Eco-political aesthetics -- Ecological communication as politics.
Sean Cubitt offers a large scale rethinking of theories of mediation by describing the ecological footprint of media. He investigates the energy, material, and space needed to create, operate, and dispose of electronic devices, and shows how changing how we use media is the only solution to planetary devastation.