Sustainable Media by Nicole Starosielski, Janet Walker - 9781138014060

Taylor & Francis

Sustainable MediaCritical Approaches to Media and Environment\nAuthor(s): Nicole Starosielski, Janet Walker\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138014060, 978-1138014060\nSynopsis\nSustainable 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 peoples 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 [url] in-depth analyses of media theories, practices, and objects including cell phone towers, ecologically-themed video games, Geiger counters for registering radiation, and so.