Anthropologist | Data Centres | Sustainability | Space Infrastructure | Senior Lecturer @ExeterComms | Marconi Fellow @UniofOxford | PhD @Cambridge_Uni
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Here's a link to the @C4Dispatches documentary that was prompted by my @coronatimesblog article on the environmental impact of online activity during the #pandemic (I was a lead consultant on the doc): channel4.com/programmes/disp… You can also watch it @All4. Original article below!
“Staying online could be costing us the earth.”
Every time you interact online, it could be damaging the environment. From Zoom meetings, to social posts, #Dispatches reveals your online carbon footprint and asks if big tech companies are as green as they say.
📢 Three permanent positions in Communications at Exeter!
🚨NEW JOBS ALERT!🚨
The Communications programme in @UniOfExeterHASS is advertising for three new positions. Come and join our friendly, passionate and hard-working team✨
Job 1: Senior Lecturer in Communications and Digital Media (1/3)
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webre…
'Ireland isn’t going to limit data centers despite high energy use - Announcement comes as government issues an amber warning for the grid' 👀@patbrodie337 @PBresnihan datacenterdynamics.com/en/ne…
🛰️Really enjoyed the Off-Earth Atlas conference today @UCLanthropology @ETHNOISS on 'Architectures and Infrastructures' - thanks to the organisers for organising such a thought-provoking event!
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📢 Join us on Thursday 1 June @DHSHeritageOx @TORCHOxford for ‘#Music & the Internet of Things: #Computing, Creativity & Sensory #Heritage’ with
@Alan_yn_Aber @dder @DH_Oxford @ahrcpress @OxfordeResearch @OxHumanities @Oxford_Heritage @UoNHumanities
torch.ox.ac.uk/event/music-a…
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This is WILD.
Boston Dynamics robots can dance with more rhythm than most of us...
I’m not sure whether to be impressed or disturbed.
(sound on 🔊)
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Why did a climate activist interrupt a snooker match?
What's the strategy here? THREAD:
#JustStopOil
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Looks like a great workshop: 'Data: Materialities, Infrastructures, Critiques'
cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/36108/. No need for an abstract, all that's being asked for is a one-sentence description for your short presentation. h/t/@AlinaUtrata
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PhD studentship - 'Temporalities of nuclear infrastructure: histories and futures of energy and
community' - with Dr Karen Bickerstaff and Dr Leila Dawney @DawneyLeila. Application deadline: 21 April 2023. More info here: exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/a…
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📢 Excited to share the programme for our student-led Twitter conference on #DigitalInequality 💻taking place on the 29th March 2023! We'll be re-tweeting the first tweet from each of the threads and using the hashtag #ExeterCommsTwitterConference2023
#BudgetDay2023 UK #Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt @Jeremy_Hunt announces that #NuclearEnergy could be classed as 'environmentally sustainable' (subject to consultation) under the Government's nuclear programme #SpringStatement
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'Digital detoxing, the attention economy, and the paradoxes of self-regulation' - a talk by Professor Trine Syvertsen @trinesy for the @ExeterComms Research Seminar Series. Weds 8th March 2023, from 13:00-14:00 GMT.
Join in person or online via Teams here: exeter.ac.uk/news/events/det…
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Today the Routledge International Handbook of Failure is out!!
Its 35 chapters examine the study of failure in social sciences, its manifestations in the contemporary world, and the modalities of dealing with it – both in theory and in practice.
routledge.com/Routledge-Inte…
Happy to announce that my chapter 'Cloud Backup and Restore: The Infrastructure of Digital Failure' is available #OpenAccess in the Routledge International Handbook of Failure edited by @Adi_Mica, @pawlak_mikolaj, Anna Horolets and @KubickiPawel
taylorfrancis.com/chapters/o…
Check out the entire book at the link below (5 chapters are #OpenAccess - the rest of the book will be available from 14 February 2023). It marks a significant contribution to the interdisciplinary field of #FailureStudies taylorfrancis.com/books/edit…
Thanks to the wonderful editors @Adi_Mica, @pawlak_mikolaj, Anna Horolets and @KubickiPawel. Failure Studies folk may also be interested in their work as part of the Failure Lab @UniWarszawski
policy-failures.uw.edu.pl/
