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Episode Synopsis
This panel investigates the dynamic interplay between: discourses framing digital technologies as solutions to the climate crisis and the real material impacts of these technologies on ecologies of living.
Panellists will examine the potential efficacy of digital tech, interrogate its underlying ethics and critically analyse its social, political and ecological dynamics through addressing the following questions: Will digital technologies solve the climate crisis? Can they do it? How are digital technologies placed in the mix of policy efforts and engineering solutions to ecological problems? How do ecological problems create a platform for the development of emerging technologies? How does digital capitalism use contexts of social and ecological crises to boost extractivist activities at the heart of the data economy? How do entrepreneurial cultures and narratives on technology influence public understandings of both the climate crisis and the political and democratic governance of ecological justice? How does digital technology fit with calls for more local knowledge, care and collective practices in relation to ecological problems?
Speakers will analyse how buzzwords (e.g. Green AI, smart grids) recently emerged to shape the public understandings of technology's material impacts and how climate change is often reduced to a technical problem infused by a culture of “toxic” masculinity. The marketisation of emerging technologies such as AI products for disaster monitoring, distributed renewable energy technologies and smart home devices will be analysed and their solution oriented narratives evaluated. Panellists will also envision the benefits and trade-offs coming with the standardisation of AI ethics, the participation of publics in shaping technological change and care-full justice approaches to our everyday environments and non-human.
Speakers:
Dr Loup Cellard, Professor Fiona Haines, University of Melbourne
Dr Ben Lyal, Monash University
Associate Professor Yolande Strengers, Monash University
Professor Karen Yeung, Birmingham Law School (Host)
Panellists will examine the potential efficacy of digital tech, interrogate its underlying ethics and critically analyse its social, political and ecological dynamics through addressing the following questions: Will digital technologies solve the climate crisis? Can they do it? How are digital technologies placed in the mix of policy efforts and engineering solutions to ecological problems? How do ecological problems create a platform for the development of emerging technologies? How does digital capitalism use contexts of social and ecological crises to boost extractivist activities at the heart of the data economy? How do entrepreneurial cultures and narratives on technology influence public understandings of both the climate crisis and the political and democratic governance of ecological justice? How does digital technology fit with calls for more local knowledge, care and collective practices in relation to ecological problems?
Speakers will analyse how buzzwords (e.g. Green AI, smart grids) recently emerged to shape the public understandings of technology's material impacts and how climate change is often reduced to a technical problem infused by a culture of “toxic” masculinity. The marketisation of emerging technologies such as AI products for disaster monitoring, distributed renewable energy technologies and smart home devices will be analysed and their solution oriented narratives evaluated. Panellists will also envision the benefits and trade-offs coming with the standardisation of AI ethics, the participation of publics in shaping technological change and care-full justice approaches to our everyday environments and non-human.
Speakers:
Dr Loup Cellard, Professor Fiona Haines, University of Melbourne
Dr Ben Lyal, Monash University
Associate Professor Yolande Strengers, Monash University
Professor Karen Yeung, Birmingham Law School (Host)
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