The two-day symposium Media/Environment brings together some of the most prominent voices in the debate surrounding the ecological impacts of media technology. Speakers from three continents will present groundbreaking research in media studies, communication
studies, sociology and computer science, highlighting the breadth and diversity of current approaches from an interdisciplinary perspective.

While the environmental crisis is a globally shared concern, both our understanding of it and solutions to it must necessarily be specific and grounded in local knowledge and communities. By bringing into conversation an international cohort of scholars, students and artists whose work is rooted in distinct methodologies and ecological contexts, the symposium will lay the groundwork for a more globally attuned research agenda on media and environmental futures.

The topics addressed by the invited speakers are diverse:

• Media representations of nature; interstices between media studies, environmental humanities, and animal studies (eco-cinema, nature as spectacle);
• Environmental impacts of media production and distribution; Extractivism, colonialism and the Anthropocene in East Asia;
• Media archaeology and the materiality of technology and infrastructure, including historical and contemporary supply chains;
• Media, sustainability and time: Media’s contribution to the Great Acceleration, repair cafés;
• Climate and sustainability communication: The public relations strategies of the fossil-fuel industry and Big Tech;
• Weather, atmosphere, soil and hydrology in media history;
• The media and raw materials of science.