We are fast approaching the point of “peak digital”, with the
continued mass production and excessive consumption of digital
technologies set to become a key driver of climate crisis, ecological
breakdown and ongoing societal instability.
_Digital Degrowth_ is a call to completely rethink our digital
futures in these fast-changing times. It explores how degrowth
thinking and alternate forms of “radically sustainable computing”
might support ambitions of sustainable, scaled-down and equitable ways
of living with digital technologies. Neil Selwyn proposes a
rebalancing of digital technology use: digital degrowth is not a call
for simply making reduced use of the digital technologies that we
already have - rather it is an argument to reimagine digital practices
that maximise societal benefits with minimal environmental and social
impact. Drawing on illustrative examples from across computer science,
hacker and environmental activist communities, this book examines how
core degrowth principles of conviviality, autonomy and care are
already being used to reimagine alternate forms of digital technology.
Original and stimulating, this is essential reading for students and
scholars of media and communication, sustainability
studies, political ecology, computer/data sciences, and across the
social sciences.
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Radically Rethinking our Digital Futures
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ISBN
9781509563296
Publisert
2025
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Polity
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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