The Environmental Costs and Benefits of Digital Technologies with Dr. Jessica McLean

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Dr. Jessica McLean will discuss the changing digital geographies of the Anthropocene. She shows how technologies are providing new opportunities for communication and connection, while simultaneously deepening existing problems associated with isolation, global inequity, and environmental harm. By offering a reading of digital technologies as 'more-than-real', the author argues that the productive and destructive possibilities of digital geographies are changing important aspects of human and non-human worlds. Like the more-than-human notion and how it emphasises interconnections of humans and non-humans in the world, the more-than-real inverts the diminishing that accompanies use of the terms 'virtual' and 'immaterial' as applied to digital spaces.

Jess McLean does research on how humans, more-than-humans, environments and technologies interact to produce geographies of change. Her research focuses on digital technologies, feminist geographies, water politics, climate action and activism. She is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University where she currently teaches Anthropocene politics, planning placements, and Indigenous geographies. Her book Changing Digital Geographies: Technologies, Environments and People was published in 2020 and she is co-Editor-in-Chief of the Digital Geography and Society journal.

This event is part of the 2nd Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series (https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com), organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum. This series was made possible thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC (and the Initiative for Digital Citizen Research), the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF), Milieux, Initiative for Indigenous Futures, Algorithmic Media Observatory, MILA, Cinema Politics, McGill’s Department of History and Classical Studies, Black Feminist Futures Working Group, the Sustainability Projects Fund, Moving Image Research Laboratory, The McGill Writing Centre, MUTEK IMG, the Intersectionality Research Hub, and Machine Agencies. https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com/p/sponsors....

There is no fee required to attend this event. We will provide captions. The event will be recorded.