[ecrea] new book--Media and the Eco-Crisis

Media and the Ecological Crisis
Edited by Richard Maxwell, Jon Raundalen, Nina Lager Vestberg
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781315885650/

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.

Introduction: Media Ecology Recycled Richard Maxwell, Jon Raundalen, and 
Nina Lager Vestberg Part 1: New Media Materialism 1. Powering the 
Digital: From Energy Ecologies to Electronic Environmentalism Jennifer 
Gabrys 2. Immaterial Culture? The (Un)Sustainability of Screens Paul 
Micklethwaite 3.Damaged Nature: The Media Ecology of Auto-destructive 
Art Synnøve Marie Vik 4. Documenting Depletion: Of Algorithmic Machines, 
Experience Streams, and Plastic People Soenke Zehle 5.E-Waste, 
Human-Waste, Infoflation Sophia Kaitatzi-Whitlock Part 2:New Media 
Ecology 6. Greening Media Studies Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller 7. 
Tech Support: How Technological Utopianism in the Media is Driving 
Consumption Jon Raundalen 8. Where Did Nature Go? Is the Ecological 
Crisis Perceptible within the Current Theoretical Frameworks of 
Journalism Research? Roy Krøvel 9. Narrating theClimate Crisis in 
Africa: The Press, Social Imaginaries and Harsh Realities Ibrahim Saleh 
10. Putting the Eco into Media Ecosystems: Bridging Media Practice with 
Green Cultural Citizenship Antonio López
Richard Maxwell Tel: 718-997-2950
Chair and Professor
Media Studies Department
Queens College-CUNY (Richard.Maxwell /at/ qc.cuny.edu)
65-30 Kissena Blvd http://qcpages.qc.edu/mediastudies/
Flushing, NY 11367





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