Media and the Ecological Crisis

Richard Maxwell is a political economist of media and Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York, USA.Jon Raundalen is Associate Professor of Film Studies at  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.Nina Lager Vestberg is Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.

"This book addresses a much neglected dimension, is theoretically well anchored and is particularly commendable for the way in which the perspective engages in a novel and critical fashion with more traditional ways of looking at media technologies from an ecological/environmental perspective." -- Anders Hansen, University of Leicester, UK

• 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