Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment
New York; London: Routledge (2016), xiii, 296 pp.
Contains illustrations, index
Series: Media/Cultural Studies
ISBN 978-1-138-01406-0 (pbk); 978-1-315-79487-7 (online)
Introduction: Sustainable Media / Janet Walker and Nicole Starosielski, 1
I. RESOURCE MEDIA
1 500,000 Kilowatts of Stardust: An Ecomaterialist Reframing of Singin' in the Rain / Hunter Vaughan, 23
2 Pipeline Ecologies: Rural Entanglements of Fiber-Optic Cables / Nicole Starosielski, 38
3 Making Data Sustainable: Backup Culture and Risk Perception / Shane Brennan, 56
4 "There Ain't No Gettin' Offa This Train": Final Fantasy VII and the Pwning of Environmental Crisis / Colin Milburn, 77
II. SOCIAL ECOLOGIES, MEDIATING ENVIRONMENTS
5 Mediating Infrastructures: (Im)Mobile Toxicity and Cell Antenna Publics / Rahul Mukherjee, 95
6 The Lack of Media: The Invisible Domain post 3.11 / Minori Ishida, 113
7 Ping and the Material Meanings of Ocean Sound / John Shiga, 128
8 "Going the Distance": Steadicam's Ecological Aesthetic / Amy Rust, 146
III. (UN)SUSTAINABLE MATERIALITIES
9 Ecologies of Fabrication / Sean Cubitt, 163
10 Re-thingifying the Internet of Things / Jennifer Gabrys, 180
11 So-called Nature: Friedrich Kittler and Ecological Media Materialism / Jussi Parikka, 196
IV. SCALING, MODELING, COUPLING
12 Think Galactically, Act Microscopically? The Science of Scale in Video Games / Alenda Y. Chang, 215
13 Toward Symbiosis: Human-viral Futures in the "Molecular Movies" / Bishnupriya Ghosh, 232
14 Coupling Complexity: Ecological Cybernetics as a Resource for Nonrepresentational Moves to Action / Erica Robles-Anderson and Max Liboiron, 248
15 The Invisible Axis: From Polar Media to Planetary Networks / Peter Krapp, 264
I. RESOURCE MEDIA
1 500,000 Kilowatts of Stardust: An Ecomaterialist Reframing of Singin' in the Rain / Hunter Vaughan, 23
2 Pipeline Ecologies: Rural Entanglements of Fiber-Optic Cables / Nicole Starosielski, 38
3 Making Data Sustainable: Backup Culture and Risk Perception / Shane Brennan, 56
4 "There Ain't No Gettin' Offa This Train": Final Fantasy VII and the Pwning of Environmental Crisis / Colin Milburn, 77
II. SOCIAL ECOLOGIES, MEDIATING ENVIRONMENTS
5 Mediating Infrastructures: (Im)Mobile Toxicity and Cell Antenna Publics / Rahul Mukherjee, 95
6 The Lack of Media: The Invisible Domain post 3.11 / Minori Ishida, 113
7 Ping and the Material Meanings of Ocean Sound / John Shiga, 128
8 "Going the Distance": Steadicam's Ecological Aesthetic / Amy Rust, 146
III. (UN)SUSTAINABLE MATERIALITIES
9 Ecologies of Fabrication / Sean Cubitt, 163
10 Re-thingifying the Internet of Things / Jennifer Gabrys, 180
11 So-called Nature: Friedrich Kittler and Ecological Media Materialism / Jussi Parikka, 196
IV. SCALING, MODELING, COUPLING
12 Think Galactically, Act Microscopically? The Science of Scale in Video Games / Alenda Y. Chang, 215
13 Toward Symbiosis: Human-viral Futures in the "Molecular Movies" / Bishnupriya Ghosh, 232
14 Coupling Complexity: Ecological Cybernetics as a Resource for Nonrepresentational Moves to Action / Erica Robles-Anderson and Max Liboiron, 248
15 The Invisible Axis: From Polar Media to Planetary Networks / Peter Krapp, 264
