Nicole Starosielski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is author of The Undersea Network, an exploration of the histories, environments, and cultures of transoceanic cable systems, and co-editor, with Lisa Parks, of Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructure. Janet Walker is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is also affiliated with the Environmental Media Initiative of the Carsey-Wolf Center. A specialist in documentary film, trauma and memory, and media and environment, her books include Trauma Cinema: Documenting Incest and the Holocaust and, with Bhaskar Sarkar, Documentary Testimonies: Global Archives of Suffering.

• IntroductionJanet Walker and Nicole Starosielski, Introduction: Sustainable MediaPart One: Resource Media1. Hunter Vaughan, 500,000 Kilowatts of Stardust: An Eco-Materialist Reframing of Singin’ in the Rain2. Nicole Starosielski, Pipeline Ecologies: Rural Entanglements of Fiber-Optic Cables3. Shane Brennan, Making Data Sustainable: Backup Culture and Risk Perception4. Colin Milburn, "Ain’t No Way Offa This Train:" Final Fantasy VII and the Pwning of Environmental CrisisPart Two: Social Ecologies, Mediating Environments5. Rahul Mukherjee, Mediating Infrastructures: (Im)Mobile Toxicity and Cell Antenna Publics6. Minori Ishida, The Lack of Media: The Invisible Domain post 3.117. John Shiga, Ping and the Material Meanings of Ocean Sound8. Amy Rust, "Going the Distance:" Steadicam’s Ecological AestheticPart Three: (Un)sustainable Materialities9. Sean Cubitt, Ecologies of Fabrication10. Jennifer Gabrys, Re-thingifying the Internet of Things11. Jussi Parikka, So-called Nature: Friedrich Kittler and Ecological Media MaterialismPart Four: Scaling, Modeling, Coupling12. Alenda Y. Chang, Think Microscopically, Act Galactically? The Science of Scale in Video Games13. Bishnupriya Ghosh, Toward Symbiosis: Human-viral Futures in the "Molecular Movies"14. Erica Robles-Anderson and Max Liboiron, Coupling Complexity: Ecology, Cybernetics, and Non-Representational Modes of Environmental Action15. Peter Krapp, The Invisible Axis: From Polar Media to Planetary Networks

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Nicole Starosielski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is author of The Undersea Network, an exploration of the histories, environments, and cultures of transoceanic cable systems, and co-editor, with Lisa Parks, of Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructure. Janet Walker is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is also affiliated with the Environmental Media Initiative of the Carsey-Wolf Center. A specialist in documentary film, trauma and memory, and media and environment, her books include Trauma Cinema: Documenting Incest and the Holocaust and, with Bhaskar Sarkar, Documentary Testimonies: Global Archives of Suffering.

• IntroductionJanet Walker and Nicole Starosielski, Introduction: Sustainable MediaPart One: Resource Media1. Hunter Vaughan, 500,000 Kilowatts of Stardust: An Eco-Materialist Reframing of Singin’ in the Rain2. Nicole Starosielski, Pipeline Ecologies: Rural Entanglements of Fiber-Optic Cables3. Shane Brennan, Making Data Sustainable: Backup Culture and Risk Perception4. Colin Milburn, "Ain’t No Way Offa This Train:" Final Fantasy VII and the Pwning of Environmental CrisisPart Two: Social Ecologies, Mediating Environments5. Rahul Mukherjee, Mediating Infrastructures: (Im)Mobile Toxicity and Cell Antenna Publics6. Minori Ishida, The Lack of Media: The Invisible Domain post 3.117. John Shiga, Ping and the Material Meanings of Ocean Sound8. Amy Rust, "Going the Distance:" Steadicam’s Ecological AestheticPart Three: (Un)sustainable Materialities9. Sean Cubitt, Ecologies of Fabrication10. Jennifer Gabrys, Re-thingifying the Internet of Things11. Jussi Parikka, So-called Nature: Friedrich Kittler and Ecological Media MaterialismPart Four: Scaling, Modeling, Coupling12. Alenda Y. Chang, Think Microscopically, Act Galactically? The Science of Scale in Video Games13. Bishnupriya Ghosh, Toward Symbiosis: Human-viral Futures in the "Molecular Movies"14. Erica Robles-Anderson and Max Liboiron, Coupling Complexity: Ecology, Cybernetics, and Non-Representational Modes of Environmental Action15. Peter Krapp, The Invisible Axis: From Polar Media to Planetary Networks

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Nicole Starosielski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is author of The Undersea Network, an exploration of the histories, environments, and cultures of transoceanic cable systems, and co-editor, with Lisa Parks, of Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructure. Janet Walker is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is also affiliated with the Environmental Media Initiative of the Carsey-Wolf Center. A specialist in documentary film, trauma and memory, and media and environment, her books include Trauma Cinema: Documenting Incest and the Holocaust and, with Bhaskar Sarkar, Documentary Testimonies: Global Archives of Suffering.

• IntroductionJanet Walker and Nicole Starosielski, Introduction: Sustainable MediaPart One: Resource Media1. Hunter Vaughan, 500,000 Kilowatts of Stardust: An Eco-Materialist Reframing of Singin’ in the Rain2. Nicole Starosielski, Pipeline Ecologies: Rural Entanglements of Fiber-Optic Cables3. Shane Brennan, Making Data Sustainable: Backup Culture and Risk Perception4. Colin Milburn, "Ain’t No Way Offa This Train:" Final Fantasy VII and the Pwning of Environmental CrisisPart Two: Social Ecologies, Mediating Environments5. Rahul Mukherjee, Mediating Infrastructures: (Im)Mobile Toxicity and Cell Antenna Publics6. Minori Ishida, The Lack of Media: The Invisible Domain post 3.117. John Shiga, Ping and the Material Meanings of Ocean Sound8. Amy Rust, "Going the Distance:" Steadicam’s Ecological AestheticPart Three: (Un)sustainable Materialities9. Sean Cubitt, Ecologies of Fabrication10. Jennifer Gabrys, Re-thingifying the Internet of Things11. Jussi Parikka, So-called Nature: Friedrich Kittler and Ecological Media MaterialismPart Four: Scaling, Modeling, Coupling12. Alenda Y. Chang, Think Microscopically, Act Galactically? The Science of Scale in Video Games13. Bishnupriya Ghosh, Toward Symbiosis: Human-viral Futures in the "Molecular Movies"14. Erica Robles-Anderson and Max Liboiron, Coupling Complexity: Ecology, Cybernetics, and Non-Representational Modes of Environmental Action15. Peter Krapp, The Invisible Axis: From Polar Media to Planetary Networks

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