ABSTRACT

Media and the Ecological Crisis is a collaborative work of interdisciplinary writers engaged in mapping, understanding and addressing the complex contribution of media to the current ecological crisis. The book is informed by a fusion of scholarly, practitioner, and activist interests to inform, educate, and advocate for real, environmentally sound changes in design, policy, industrial, and consumer practices. Aligned with an emerging area of scholarship devoted to identifying and analysing the material physical links of media technologies, cultural production, and environment, it contributes to the project of greening media studies by raising awareness of media technology’s concrete environmental effects.

part I|84 pages

New Media Materialism

chapter 1|16 pages

Powering the Digital

From Energy Ecologies to Electronic Environmentalism

chapter 2|21 pages

Immaterial Culture?

The (Un)Sustainability of Screens

chapter 3|13 pages

Damaged Nature

The Media Ecology of Auto-destructive Art

chapter 4|16 pages

Documenting Depletion

Of Algorithmic Machines, Experience Streams, and Plastic People

part II|91 pages

New Media Ecology

chapter 6|12 pages

Greening Media Studies

chapter 7|22 pages

Tech Support

How Technological Utopianism in the Media Is Driving Consumption

chapter 8|18 pages

Where Did Nature Go?

Is the Ecological Crisis Perceptible within the Current Theoretical Frameworks of Journalism Research?

chapter 9|13 pages

Narrating the Climate Crisis in Africa

The Press, Social Imaginaries, and Harsh Realities

chapter 10|24 pages

Putting the Eco into Media Ecosystems

Bridging Media Practice with Green Cultural Citizenship