Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment
可持续媒介：媒体与环境的批判性路径
Authors: Nicole Starosielski（妮可·斯塔罗斯尔斯基）、Janet Walker（珍妮特·沃克）
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2016
Pages: 310
About Book:
Sustainable Media explores the many ways that media and environment are intertwined from the exploitation of natural and human resources during media production to the installation and disposal of media in the landscape; from people’s engagement with environmental issues in film, television, and digital media to the mediating properties of ecologies themselves.
Edited by Nicole Starosielski and Janet Walker, the assembled chapters expose how the social and representational practices of media culture are necessarily caught up with technologies, infrastructures, and environments.Through in-depth analyses of media theories, practices, and objects including cell phone towers, ecologically-themed video games, Geiger counters for registering radiation, and sound waves traveling through the ocean, contributors question the sustainability of the media we build, exchange, and inhabit and chart emerging alternatives for media ecologies.
关于书籍
《可持续媒介》探讨了媒介与环境交织的多种方式：从媒介生产过程中对自然与人力资源的榨取，到媒介在景观中的安装与处置；从人们对电影、电视与数字媒体中环境议题的参与，到生态本身的媒介属性。
由妮可·斯塔罗西尔斯基与珍妮特·沃克编撰，各章节揭示了媒介文化的社会与表征实践如何必然地与技术、基础设施及环境纠缠在一起。通过对媒介理论、实践与对象（包括手机信号塔、生态主题电子游戏、用于记录辐射的盖革计数器，以及在海洋中传播的声波）的深入分析，撰稿者们质疑我们所建造、交换与栖居的媒介的可持续性，并描绘媒介生态的新兴替代方案。
About Author：
Nicole Starosielski is an American author, researcher, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. She conducts research on global internet and media distribution, communications infrastructures ranging from data centers to undersea cables, and media’s environmental and elemental dimensions.[1] Her best-known contribution foregrounds the global subsea cable industry, the sector responsible for the planetary network that carries about 99% of transoceanic data traffic, analyzing its socio-technical organization, market dynamics, governance structures, and sustainability efforts.
Janet Walker CM is a leading international commercial arbitrator based in London, Toronto, and Sydney. In 2021, Janet was appointed to the Order of Canada for her expert legal authority in commercial arbitration and conflict of laws, and for advancing legal procedural standards in Canada. She was also the recipient of the CIArb Canada Award for Distinguished Service to Arbitration in 2018, and has been recognised regularly in the legal directories for her skill as an arbitrator since 2010, including in Who’s Who Legal and Chambers & Partners.
关于作者
妮可·斯塔罗斯尔斯基（Nicole Starosielski） 是一位美国作家、研究员，现任加州大学伯克利分校教授。她的研究领域涵盖全球互联网与媒体传播、通信基础设施（从数据中心到海底光缆），以及媒体的环境与元素维度。她最著名的贡献在于聚焦全球海底光缆行业，该行业负责承载约99%跨洋数据流量的行星级网络。她深入分析了该行业的社会技术组织、市场动态、治理结构以及在可持续发展方面的努力。
珍妮特·沃克（Janet Walker）是一位驻扎在伦敦、多伦多和悉尼的国际领先商业仲裁员。2021年，她因在商业仲裁和冲突法领域的专家权威，以及在推动加拿大法律程序标准方面的贡献，被授予加拿大勋章。她还是2018年英国特许仲裁员协会（CIArb）加拿大杰出仲裁服务奖的获得者。自2010 年以来，她在《名人录法律指南》（Who’s Who Legal）和《钱伯斯指南》（Chambers & Partners）等权威法律名录中凭借卓越的仲裁技巧屡获认可。
编译：刘鑫
