Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet
编程地球：环境传感技术与计算星球的构建
Authors: Jennifer Gabrys （珍妮弗·加布里斯）
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication Year: 2016
Pages: 368
About Book:
Sensors are increasingly present in our environments and technologies. At the same time, environmental sensing is a set of practices meant to provide more information on environmental change, while enabling new forms of environmental citizenship.
Program Earth documents and discusses the ways in which new environments and citizen-sensing practices are emerging along with environmental sensing technologies. Through discussing specific instances where sensors are deployed for environmental study and citizen engagement across three areas of environmental sensing, from wild sensing to pollution sensing and urban sensing, Program Earth asks how sensor technologies are generating distinct ways of programming environments and environmental relations. What are the implications for wiring up environments in these ways? How do sensor applications not only program environments, but also program the sorts of citizens and collectives we might become? Working across digital media theory, science and technology studies, and environmental studies, Program Earth takes up these questions to examine the distinct environments, exchanges, and entities that take hold through these sensorized projects.
This study develops the concept of the becoming environmental of computation in order to map the ways in which sensors are used to understand ecological processes, to track the migration of animals, to monitor pollutants, to facilitate urban participation, and to program infrastructure. Through these examples, Program Earth suggests that the programming of Earth yields processes for making new environments not necessarily as an extension of humans, but rather as new “techno-geographies” that emerge across technologies, people, practices, and more-than-human entities.
关于书籍
传感器日益普遍地存在于我们的环境与技术中。与此同时，环境传感是一系列旨在提供更多环境变化信息，同时实现新形式环境公民身份的实践。
《编程地球》记录并讨论了新环境及公民传感实践如何与环境传感技术一同涌现。通过讨论传感器被部署用于环境研究与公民参与的具体实例，涵盖从荒野传感、污染传感到城市传感三个领域，《编程地球》追问传感器技术如何生成独特的编程环境与环境关系的方式。以这些方式连接环境有何意涵？传感器应用不仅如何编程环境，又如何编程我们可能成为的公民与集体类型？《编程地球》跨越数字媒体理论、科学技术研究与环境研究领域，探讨这些问题，以检视通过这些传感项目所形成的独特环境、交换与实体。
本研究发展出“计算的环境化”概念，以描绘传感器被用于理解生态过程、追踪动物迁徙、监测污染物、促进城市参与以及编程基础设施的方式。通过这些实例，《编程地球》表明，对地球的编程产生了制造新环境的过程，这些新环境不一定是人类的延伸，而是跨越技术、人类、实践与超人类实体而涌现的新“技术-地理”。
About Author：
Jennifer Gabrys is a reader in sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics.
关于作者
珍妮弗·加布里斯（Jennifer Gabrys）是伦敦大学金史密斯学院的社会学准教授。
编译：刘鑫
