Digital Rubbish : A Natural History of Electronics / / Jennifer Gabrys.
This is a study of the material life of information and its devices; of electronic waste in its physical and electronic incarnations; a cultural and material mapping of the spaces where electronics in the form of both hardware and information accumulate, break down, or are stowed away. Electronic wa...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, 2011. ©2011. |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | digitalculturebooks
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; illustrations; digital, HTML file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a natural history of electronics
- Silicon elephants : the transformative materiality of microchips
- Ephemeral screens : exchange at the interface
- Shipping and receiving : circuits of disposal and the "social death" of electronics
- Museum of failure : the mutability of electronic memory
- Media in the dump : salvage stories and spaces of remainder
- Conclusion : digital rubbish theory.