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Invitation to a book launch webinar on May 21 at 3pm EEST (2pm
CEST):</p>
<p><b><font size="4">Platforms and the Planet: Big Tech, Digital
Platforms and Environmental Responsibility</font></b></p>
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<p style="padding: 0px; width: 921.594px; margin: 2px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Candara, Segoe, "Segoe UI", Optima, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"<a href="https://bookstore.emerald.com/platforms-and-the-planet-hb-9781836621737.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(10, 121, 164);">Platforms and
the Planet: Big Tech, Digital Platforms and Environmental
Responsibility</a>" 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 <br>
<a href="https://bookstore.emerald.com/digital-materialities-and-sustainable-futures" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(10, 121, 164);">Digital
Materialities and Sustainable Futures</a>. 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.</p>
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using this form. The Zoom link will be shared with registered
participants on May 21st.</span></p>
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PROGRAM:<br>
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</strong><em style="font-style: italic !important;">Series
Editors Adi Kuntsman, Erinma Ochu and Liu Xin.</em></span></p>
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Introduction:<span> </span><strong>Where platforms and the
planet collide</strong><br>
<em style="font-style: italic !important;">Book Editors
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Mervi Pantti & Olga Dovbysh,
University of Helsinki</em></span></p>
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Chapter teaser: <strong>Platform opacity in the global e-waste
dilemma<br>
<em style="font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lauren E. Bridges & Vusumuzi
Maphosa, University of Virginia / National University of
Science and Technology, Zimbabw</span></em>e</strong></span></p>
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Chapter teaser: <strong>Understanding moral lapses in design:
Cultural biases, beliefs, and narratives as factors of
accidental evil</strong><br>
<em style="font-style: italic !important;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thomas Olsson, Tampere</span> University</em></span></p>
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Commentary:<span> </span><a href="https://aiplanetaryjustice.com/sara-marcucci" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(10, 121, 164);">Sara
Marcucci</a>, the Founder and Director of the AI + Planetary
Justice Alliance</span></p>
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book is already available as an eBook and as a print version on
May 11th. See:</p>
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Salla-Maaria Laaksonen // @sallamaaria@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
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:salla.laaksonen@helsinki.fi">salla.laaksonen@helsinki.fi</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blogs.helsinki.fi/smlaakso">http://blogs.helsinki.fi/smlaakso</a></pre>
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