OLD, NEW AND MIDDLE-AGED MEDIA CONVERGENCE
2011; Routledge; Volume: 25; Issue: 4-5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/09502386.2011.600550
ISSN1466-4348
Autores Tópico(s)Information Systems Theories and Implementation
ResumoAbstract This essay analyzes the myths that swirl around digital media convergence – managerial efficiency, experiential immediacy, global interactivity and interpersonal connectedness – and counters these with an ecological historiography that shows how so-called managerial efficiencies waste natural and human resources; the vaunted experiences of immediacy and interactivity induce ignorance of inter-generational effects of consumption, including long-term harm to workers and the environment; and constant connectedness comes with its own peculiar dispossession of the ability to dwell on the interconnections between human communication and the Earth. Keywords: ecologicalenvironmentlabourstateHollywoodmilitary Acknowledgements Thanks to Mila Sterling and the editors for comments on this essay. Notes 1. See Philips shavers promising a 'virtual you' (http://www.shaveeverywhere.com/deforestation.html?origin=1_us_en_deforest_aggregate) or any utterance from or . 2. 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