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Staying with the Planet - The University That Tried to Reckon with Ecological Reality, Challenged Excessive Data Infrastructures, and Nurtured a Few Alternatives Not Planned For

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 27.02.2026

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Hidden from view, data centres process and store scientific data while requiring extensive energy and metal extraction. How can science become sustainable, as it depends heavily on these data infrastructures? The authors of this volume trouble cultures of scientific competition, challenge institutional habits, irritate server procurement and regulations, question funding procedures, and confront global supply chains. It is a witty and thought-provoking engagement with practical everyday challenges of enabling a university to respond to the planetary. With original line art and ethnographic texts, they offer a refreshing take on the challenges data-driven science faces in times of climate change.

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Leman Celik ist Doktorandin am SFB1567 VirtuelleLebenswelten der Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

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Hidden from view, data centres process and store scientific data while requiring extensive energy and metal extraction. How can science become sustainable, as it depends heavily on these data infrastructures? The authors of this volume trouble cultures of scientific competition, challenge institutional habits, irritate server procurement and regulations, question funding procedures, and confront global supply chains. It is a witty and thought-provoking engagement with practical everyday challenges of enabling a university to respond to the planetary. With original line art and ethnographic texts, they offer a refreshing take on the challenges data-driven science faces in times of climate change.

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Authors Sandra Abels, Leman Çelik, Stefan Laser, Estrid Sørensen
Publisher Transcript
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Release 27.02.2026
 
EAN 9783837678192
ISBN 978-3-8376-7819-2
No. of pages 90
Illustrations 30 SW-Abb., 10 Farbabb.
Series Virtuelle Lebenswelten
Virtuelle Lebenswelten 13
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general)

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Wissenschaft, Technologie und Gesellschaft, Media Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SCIENCE / History, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, Science, Social interaction, HISTORY / Social History, Philosophy, Social & cultural history, EDUCATION / Research, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Data, History of Science, Environmental Economics, Philosophy & theory of education, Impact of science & technology on society, History of engineering & technology, Ethical & social aspects of IT, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects, Philosophy and theory, Culture and institutions, Macroeconomics and related topics, History, geographic treatment, biography, Data processing and computer science, Epistemology (Theory of knowledge), Higher education (Tertiary education), Library and information sciences

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