Finite Media - Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies

Informationen zum Autor Sean Cubitt Klappentext Sean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television, Goldsmiths, University of London, and the author of several books, most recently, The Practice of Light: A Genealogy of Visual Technologies from Prints to Pixels. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments  vii Introduction. Eco-mediation  1 1. Energy  13 2. Matter  63 3. Eco-political Aesthetics  151 4. Ecological Communication as Politics  169 Coda on Saturn  193 References  201 Index  237

Product details

• Authors: Professor of Film and Television Studies S Cubitt, Sean Cubitt
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9780822362814
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6281-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cultural Politics Book; A Cultural Politics Book; A Cultural Politics Book; Cultural Politics Book
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries