[Air-L] Book launch webinar May 21st: Platforms and the Planet: Big Tech, Digital Platforms and Environmental Responsibility

[Laaksonen, Salla-Maaria]

Invitation to a book launch webinar on May 21 at 3pm EEST (2pm CEST):

*Platforms and the Planet: Big Tech, Digital Platforms and Environmental 
Responsibility*

"Platforms and the Planet: Big Tech, Digital Platforms and Environmental 
Responsibility 
<https://bookstore.emerald.com/platforms-and-the-planet-hb-9781836621737.html>" 
is an edited volume recently published by Emerald, edited by 
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Mervi Pantti and Olga Dovbysh. The book is part 
of the new Emerald series
Digital Materialities and Sustainable Futures 
<https://bookstore.emerald.com/digital-materialities-and-sustainable-futures>. 
More timely than ever, the book develops a critical understanding of the 
environmental responsibility and accountability of digital platforms 
(the so-called Big Tech), and their role in the sustainability 
transition as a discursive, material, and ethical question. With its 11 
chapters, the book brings together a multidisciplinary group of authors 
across the globe.


Please register on May 20 the latest using this form. The Zoom link will 
be shared with registered participants on May 21st.

==> https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/140335/lomake.html


*WEBINAR PROGRAM:

*

*Opening and welcome
*/Series Editors Adi Kuntsman, Erinma Ochu and Liu Xin./


Introduction:*Where platforms and the planet collide*
/Book Editors Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Mervi Pantti & Olga Dovbysh, 
University of Helsinki/


Chapter teaser: *Platform opacity in the global e-waste dilemma
/Lauren E. Bridges & Vusumuzi Maphosa, University of Virginia / National 
University of Science and Technology, Zimbabw/e*


Chapter teaser: *Understanding moral lapses in design: Cultural biases, 
beliefs, and narratives as factors of accidental evil*
/Thomas Olsson, Tampere University/


Commentary:Sara Marcucci <https://aiplanetaryjustice.com/sara-marcucci>, 
the Founder and Director of the AI + Planetary Justice Alliance



The book is already available as an eBook and as a print version on May 
11th. See:

https://bookstore.emerald.com/platforms-and-the-planet-hb-9781836621737.html




-- 
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen // @sallamaaria at eurosky.social
Docent, PhD, Senior Researcher
Centre for Consumer Society Research (Kuluttajatutkimuskeskus)
Faculty of Social Sciences
P.O. Box 16, 00014 University of Helsinki
tel. +358 50 415 6576
salla.laaksonen at helsinki.fi
http://blogs.helsinki.fi/smlaakso
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