Finite media environmental implications of digital technologies /

"While digital media give us the ability to communicate with and know the world, their use comes at the expense of an immense ecological footprint and environmental degradation. In Finite Media Sean Cubitt offers a large-scale rethinking of theories of mediation by examining the environmental a...

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Main Author: Cubitt, Sean, 1953-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Physical Description: viii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-236) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction : Eco-mediation -- Energy -- Matter -- Eco-political aesthetics -- Ecological communication as politics -- Coda on Saturn. 
520 |a "While digital media give us the ability to communicate with and know the world, their use comes at the expense of an immense ecological footprint and environmental degradation. In Finite Media Sean Cubitt offers a large-scale rethinking of theories of mediation by examining the environmental and human toll exacted by mining and the manufacture, use, and disposal of millions of phones, computers, and other devices. The way out is through an eco-political media aesthetics, in which people use media to shift their relationship to the environment and where public goods and spaces are available to all. Cubitt demonstrates this through case studies ranging from the 1906 film The Story of the Kelly Gang to an image of Saturn taken during NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission, suggesting that affective responses to images may generate a populist environmental politics that demands better ways of living and being. Only by reorienting our use of media, Cubitt contends, can we overcome the failures of political elites and the ravages of capital."--Back cover. 
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650 0 |a Digital media  |x Political aspects. 
650 0 |a Digital media  |x Social aspects. 
650 7 |a Gesellschaftliches Bewusstsein.  |2 gnd. 
650 7 |a Neue Medien.  |2 gnd. 
650 7 |a Umweltbelastung.  |2 gnd. 
650 7 |a Umweltfaktor.  |2 gnd. 
650 7 |a Umweltpolitik.  |2 gnd. 
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