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Sustainable media : critical approaches to media and environment / edited by Nicole Starosielski and Janet Walker.

Starosielski, Nicole, 1984- (editor.). Walker, Janet, 1955- (editor.).

Summary:

"Sustainable Media explores the many ways that media and environment are intertwined from the exploitation of natural and human resources during media production to the installation and disposal of media in the landscape; from people's engagement with environmental issues in film, television, and digital media to the mediating properties of ecologies themselves. Edited by Nicole Starosielski and Janet Walker, the assembled chapters expose how the social and representational practices of media culture are necessarily caught up with technologies, infrastructures, and environments.Through in-depth analyses of media theories, practices, and objects including cell phone towers, ecologically-themed video games, Geiger counters for registering radiation, and sound waves traveling through the ocean, contributors question the sustainability of the media we build, exchange, and inhabit and chart emerging alternatives for media ecologies." --Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781138014060
ISBN: 1138014060
Physical Description: xiii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part One: Resource Media -- 1. 500,000 Kilowatts of Stardust: An Eco-Materialist Reframing of Singin' in the Rain / Hunter Vaughan -- 2. Pipeline Ecologies: Rural Entanglements of Fiber-Optic Cables / Nicole Starosielski -- 3. Making Data Sustainable: Backup Culture and Risk Perception / Shane Brennan -- 4. "Ain't No Way Offa This Train:" Final Fantasy VII and the Pwning of Environmental Crisis / Colin Milburn -- Part Two: Social Ecologies, Mediating Environments -- 5. Mediating Infrastructures: (Im)Mobile Toxicity and Cell Antenna Publics / Rahul Mukherjee -- 6. The Lack of Media: The Invisible Domain post 3.11 / Minori Ishida -- 7. Ping and the Material Meanings of Ocean Sound / John Shiga -- 8. "Going the Distance:" Steadicam's Ecological Aesthetic -- Part Three: (Un)sustainable Materialities / Amy Rust -- 9. Ecologies of Fabrication / Sean Cubitt -- 10. Re-thingifying the Internet of Things / Jennifer Gabrys -- 11. So-called Nature: Friedrich Kittler and Ecological Media Materialism / Jussi Parikka -- Part Four: Scaling, Modeling, Coupling -- 12. Think Microscopically, Act Galactically? The Science of Scale in Video Games / Alenda Y. Chang -- 13. Toward Symbiosis: Human-viral Futures in the "Molecular Movies" / Bishnupriya Ghosh -- 14. Coupling Complexity: Ecology, Cybernetics, and Non-Representational Modes of Environmental Action / Erica Robles-Anderson and Max Liboiron -- 15. The Invisible Axis: From Polar Media to Planetary Networks / Peter Krapp.