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High Tech Trash

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Author : Elizabeth Grossman
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2006-05-06

High Tech Trash written by Elizabeth Grossman and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-06 with Computers categories.

The Digital Age was expected to usher in an era of clean production, an alternative to smokestack industries and their pollutants. But as environmental journalist Elizabeth Grossman reveals in this penetrating analysis of high tech manufacture and disposal, digital may be sleek, but it's anything but clean. Deep within every electronic device lie toxic materials that make up the bits and bytes, a complex thicket of lead, mercury, cadmium, plastics, and a host of other often harmful ingredients. High Tech Trash is a wake-up call to the importance of the e-waste issue and the health hazards involved. Americans alone own more than two billion pieces of high tech electronics and discard five to seven million tons each year. As a result, electronic waste already makes up more than two-thirds of the heavy metals and 40 percent of the lead found in our landfills. But the problem goes far beyond American shores, most tragically to the cities in China and India where shiploads of discarded electronics arrive daily. There, they are "recycled"-picked apart by hand, exposing thousands of workers and community residents to toxics. As Grossman notes, "This is a story in which we all play a part, whether we know it or not. If you sit at a desk in an office, talk to friends on your cell phone, watch television, listen to music on headphones, are a child in Guangdong, or a native of the Arctic, you are part of this story." The answers lie in changing how we design, manufacture, and dispose of high tech electronics. Europe has led the way in regulating materials used in electronic devices and in e-waste recycling. But in the United States many have yet to recognize the persistent human health and environmental effects of the toxics in high tech devices. If Silent Spring brought national attention to the dangers of DDT and other pesticides, High Tech Trash could do the same for a new generation of technology's products.

High Tech Trash

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Author : Carolyn L. Kane
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2019-12-17

High Tech Trash written by Carolyn L. Kane and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

A free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’ Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. High-Tech Trash analyzes creative strategies in glitch, noise, and error to chart the development of an aesthetic paradigm rooted in failure. Carolyn L. Kane explores how technologically influenced creative practices, primarily from the second half of the twentieth and first quarter of the twenty-first centuries, critically offset a broader culture of pervasive risk and discontent. In so doing, she questions how we continue onward, striving to do better and acquire more, despite inevitable disappointment. High-Tech Trash speaks to a paradox in contemporary society in which failure is disavowed yet necessary for technological innovation.

High Tech Trash

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Author : Carolyn L. Kane
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2019-12-17

High Tech Trash written by Carolyn L. Kane and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Understanding Contemporary Social Problems Through Media

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Author : Roberta Goldberg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-11-17

Understanding Contemporary Social Problems Through Media written by Roberta Goldberg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-17 with Social Science categories.

Goldberg uses a multi-media approach to critically examine the most significant and volatile issues of our times: the environmental crisis, upheavals in the developing world, health, terrorism, and technology. The book is unique in its in-depth coverage of these pressing social concerns and its use of extensive media resources through a companion website. An introductory section reviews basic sociological concepts and theories, including the sociological imagination and class, gender, and race stratification all of which are revisited in each chapter. The book helps students appreciate the magnitude of the problems of the twenty-first century as they develop the intellectual tools to understand them sociologically and personally.Features of the text: "

Digital Rubbish

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Author : Jennifer Gabrys
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2013-04-26

Digital Rubbish written by Jennifer Gabrys and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-26 with Science categories.

This is a study of the material life of information and its devices; of electronic waste in its physical and electronic incarnations; a cultural and material mapping of the spaces where electronics in the form of both hardware and information accumulate, break down, or are stowed away. Where other studies have addressed "digital" technology through a focus on its immateriality or virtual qualities, Gabrys traces the material, spatial, cultural and political infrastructures that enable the emergence and dissolution of these technologies. In the course of her book, she explores five interrelated "spaces" where electronics fall apart: from Silicon Valley to Nasdaq, from containers bound for China to museums and archives that preserve obsolete electronics as cultural artifacts, to the landfill as material repository. Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics describes the materiality of electronics from a unique perspective, examining the multiple forms of waste that electronics create as evidence of the resources, labor, and imaginaries that are bundled into these machines. Ranging across studies of media and technology, as well as environments, geography, and design, Jennifer Gabrys draws together the far-reaching material and cultural processes that enable the making and breaking of these technologies.

Greening The Media

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Author : Richard Maxwell
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2012-05-25

Greening The Media written by Richard Maxwell and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Greening the Media rethinks media technologies from an ecological perspective, developing a new approach to historical and social analysis of information and communication technology.

Strange Horizons Retrospective

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Author : William Van Winkle
language : en
Publisher: William Van Winkle
Release Date : 2011-01-09

Strange Horizons Retrospective written by William Van Winkle and has been published by William Van Winkle this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-09 with Computers categories.

Robotic implants and augmented reality. Wearable computing and toxic PC manufacturing. For five years, writing across the dot-com boom and bust, William Van Winkle syndicated a column on cutting edge technologies and their intersection with people and society. Now, he's updated those columns, looking at past issues and insights through the eyes of an internationally read journalist.

Industrialization In The Modern World

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Author : John Hinshaw
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2013-11-12

Industrialization In The Modern World written by John Hinshaw and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-12 with History categories.

This unique two-volume work analyzes the Industrial Revolution from a global perspective and traces its influences up to the present day—encouraging students to rethink the significance of events past and present. By taking a fresh approach to its topic, Industrialization in the Modern World: From the Industrial Revolution to the Internet enables students to see this ongoing phenomenon not as a standalone event, but as a catalyst for the formation of today's globalized, industrializing world. Spanning the period from 1750 to the present, the work offers some 450 entries that cover developments in Africa and Asia, as well as in Europe and the United States. Numerous essays are organized around specific questions or problems; others examine significant events, countries, or industries. The work deals with all the major aspects of traditional industrialization (textiles, coal, steel), as well as modern variations (China, computers, the Internet). With a targeted approach, the authors will help students see how industrialization in one society influenced another, how industrialization spread throughout the world, and the causes and effects of each country's individual "revolution."

The Anatomy Of Consumerism

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Author : H. RamHormozi
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2019

The Anatomy Of Consumerism written by H. RamHormozi and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Business & Economics categories.

The Anatomy of Consumerism is a story of greed and obsession and consumption. Of waste and environmental degradation. Of destruction and despair. It is the story of being human. In this earnest account of a serious problem in which we are all implicated, we come to terms with our collective obsession with material consumption. The Anatomy of Consumerism tracks this consumption from the Industrial Revolution, through a ravenous stretch of excessive production and acquisition, all the way to our digital present—a period during which we overconsume as a matter of course and visit irreparable damage on our natural environment as a result. It is no wonder the consequences of human greed fester so hotly in debate among economists, social scientists, and environmentalists. The Anatomy of Consumerism wades into this debate’s center.

Random Acts Of Culture

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Author : Clarke Mackey
language : en
Publisher: Between the Lines
Release Date : 2010-12-08

Random Acts Of Culture written by Clarke Mackey and has been published by Between the Lines this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-08 with Social Science categories.

An unsentimental, optimistic book about the art of living in apocalyptic times.

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