{"title":"Series: Digital Materialities and Sustainable Futures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDigital Materialities and Sustainable Futures\u003c\/em\u003e explores the intersection of technology, environment, and society through a diverse range of perspectives. From practical applications of digital design to reflections on historical and contemporary challenges, this series offers insights into how materials and methods shape sustainable development and transform our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can engage with topics spanning computing and technology, history, politics, finance, and personal growth, all connected by a forward-thinking approach to digital and material innovation. This collection invites contemplation on the future we are building and the tools we use to get there.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"platforms-and-the-planet-9781836621737","title":"Platforms and the Planet","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a growing public and scholarly attention to the environmental footprint of digital technologies, and to the climate responsibility of technology corporations and social media platforms specifically. Developing a critical understanding of the environmental responsibility and accountability of digital platforms, \u003cem\u003ePlatforms and the Planet\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on the environmental responsibility of the so-called Big Tech, their digital media platforms, and their role in the sustainability transition as a discursive, material, and ethical question.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten from a much-needed critical and cross-disciplinary perspective, challenging the prevailing perspective on digital platforms as “green” and non-material entities, the chapters unpack their non-sustainable, material essence. Bridging critical platform studies with environmental studies and environmental communication studies, the chapters explore three broad themes. First, the chapters unpack what environmental sustainability means in relation to platforms. The second theme scrutinises the material and infrastructural dimensions of the digital platform society from the perspective of sustainability and global justice. Third, the chapters dive into the discourses of accountability by both digital platforms and actors criticising them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis edited collection is compelling reading for a wide range of researchers and students both in the fields of media and communication studies, digital sociology, and other fields of critical technology studies and environmental studies. The book will also be useful for those interested in global platform companies from the perspective of management and organisation studies or more broadly as societal actors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934186094828,"sku":"9781836621737","price":319.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781836621737-platforms-and-the-planet.jpg?v=1783902400"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/series-digital-materialities-and-sustainable-futures.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}