Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet

Author:   Jennifer Gabrys
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Volume:   49
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9780816693146


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   30 March 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Jennifer Gabrys
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Volume:   49
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780816693146


ISBN 10:   0816693145
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   30 March 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction. Environment as Experiment in Sensing Technology Part 1. Wild Sensing 1. Sensing an Experimental Forest: Processing Environments and Distributing Relations 2. From Moss Cam to Spillcam: Technogeographies of Experience 3. Animals as Sensors: Mobile Organisms and the Problem of Milieus Part 2. Pollution Sensing 4. Sensing Climate Change and Expressing Environmental Citizenship 5. Sensing Oceans and Geo-Speculating with a Garbage Patch 6. Sensing Air and Creaturing Data Part 3. Urban Sensing 7. Citizen Sensing in the Smart and Sustainable City: From Environments to Environmentality 8. Engaging the Idiot in Participatory Digital Urbanism 9. Digital Infrastructures of Withness: Constructing a Speculative City Conclusion. Planetary Computerization, Revisited Notes Bibliography Index

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Jennifer Gabrys deftly synthesizes fields and lines of inquiry in weaving a signature story of our age, working across intellectual planes and variegated systems and networks. Program Earth is a tantalizing account of digital, citizen-sensing worlds in the making. Kevin McHugh, Arizona State University Impressive and original, Program Earth is not just concerned with the collection and dissemination of data, but also and more crucially with the transformation of these data and with their effects. Steven Shaviro, author of The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism


"""Jennifer Gabrys deftly synthesizes fields and lines of inquiry in weaving a signature story of our age, working across intellectual planes and variegated systems and networks. Program Earth is a tantalizing account of digital, citizen-sensing worlds in the making.""—Kevin McHugh, Arizona State University ""Impressive and original, Program Earth is not just concerned with the collection and dissemination of data, but also—and more crucially—with the transformation of these data and with their effects.""—Steven Shaviro, author of The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism ""Full of stimulating ideas and provocative reframings of environmental concerns that are sure to spark further research.""—American Journal of Sociology  ""Readers will revel in extensively written case studies as well as the contemplative opportunity to challenge, with renewed conceptual tools, the urgent notion of the environment.""—Cultural Geographies ""Jennifer Gabrys' book is a timely publication that combines empirical insights with a necessary speculative attitude in an emerging field.""—Tecnosciencza ""This sociological treatise is a valuable contribution for historians of technology... Program Earth succeeds in raising multiple epistemological and political issues intertwining sensing technologies, infrastructures, democracy, and power.""—Technology and Culture "


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Jennifer Gabrys is a reader in sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics.

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