{"id":293,"date":"2013-03-27T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/?p=293"},"modified":"2013-03-27T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T21:21:00","slug":"week-10-greening-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/2013\/03\/27\/week-10-greening-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 10: Greening the media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Media matters, and media matter<\/em> also matters.<\/p>\n

As shown in Richard Maxwell’s and Toby Miller’s book Greening the Media<\/em>,<\/a> information and communication technologies are not ecologically benign. They leave behind plenty of residues — mountains of waste, toxic by-products that affect workers and consumers, and much else — and rearrange the materiality of the world in so many ways.<\/p>\n

The book examines these material ecologies in relation to the production (“Words,” “Workers”), distribution and transmission (“Screens”), consumption (“Consumers”), and management (“Bureaucrats,” “Citizens”) of information and communication and the technologies that mediate it.<\/p>\n

Specifically, we will read the following parts of the book:<\/p>\n