How Green is Your Smartphone?
Every day we are inundated by propaganda that claims life will be better once we are connected to digital technology. Poverty, famine, and injustice will end, and the economy will be green. All anyone needs is the latest smartphone.In this succinct and lively book, Maxwell and Miller take a critical look at contemporary gadgets and the systems that connect them, shedding light on environmental risks. Contrary to widespread claims, consumer electronics and other digital technologies are made in ways that cause some of the worst environmental disasters of our time - conflict-minerals extraction, fatal and life-threatening occupational hazards,…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Maxwell, Richard
- ISBN: 978-1-5095-3473-9
- EAN: 9781509534739
- Produktnummer: 33446023
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 374 KB
Über den Autor
Richard Maxwell is Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. Toby Miller is Stuart Hall Professor of Cultural Studies, Universidad Autónoma de México, Cuajimalpa, and Professor in Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University London.
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