Description
Media and the Ecological Crisis is a book that is written by a group of different people with different backgrounds. They all have an interest in media and the ecological crisis, and they all want to help make changes to how media is used. The book is divided into three parts. The first part is about how media affects the way people think and act. The second part is about how media affects the way people use the environment. The third part is about how people can change the way media is used to help the environment.
The book is well written and it has a lot of information. It is also important because it addresses a topic that is often ignored. The book is recommended for people who want to learn more about the ecological crisis and how media is involved.
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. Review: 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