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" 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. 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, Zimbabwe

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

Commentary: 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

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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@helsinki.fi
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