Ecosia – Who Cares About a Green Search Engine?

The environmental impact of IT is facing increasing public attention. The search engine Ecosia takes advantage of thissituation by pursuing a Social Business model. Search engines need electricity to provide their services and indirectlyproduce CO2. The estimation of greenhouse gas emissions for the average search query using the market leader Googlefluctuate between 0.2 g and 10.0 g of CO2. The search engine Ecosia tries to compensate the emissions by donating most ofits revenues to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and save rainforest from deforestation. Rainforests process CO2 throughphotosynthesis and store it as carbon. The question arises if Social Business models in general possess potential for success inthe search engine market. To investigate this question we apply case study research. Additionally, we use a survey to evaluatewhat is important to users and which aspects of search engines influence the customer’s attitude towards social business

Planting Trees with Digital Media: Reimagining Ecological Care

In the last decade, planting trees through the internet, social media, and web and mobile applications has become popularised as a means to express care and consideration for the earth and distant others. The advent of digital tree planting coincides with the rise of environmental marketing and agendas for sustainable development that stress the good of trees for addressing environmental change, alongside swelling interest in everyday digital technologies and consumption as mediums for environmental action. Against this backdrop, the thesis critiques how digital tree planting campaigns are promoting ecological care at a distance. It explores how such campaigns represent trees as valuable and situate them in relations of care for others and the environment. This critical exploration develops through an investigation of how particular uses of digital media technologies are framed as facilitating planting and care. Three empirical cases are chosen, which shed light on the three overarching digital strategies that companies and organisations are employing for this purpose: (i) online shopping; (ii) apps, games, and crowdfunding sites; and (iii) cryptocurrencies, credit cards, e-cards, and e-donations. A set of corresponding campaigns is analysed for each case using multimodal ecocritical discourse analysis, which attends to trees as subjects of environmental discourse and practice. The resulting case discussions illustrate how the promotion of various kinds of digital consumption affects the kinds of relations with, and regard for, trees that can be imagined. In so doing, it is argued, the campaigns also draw selective lines of ecological connection between contributing individuals and distant others and environments, provoking productive questions about the terms of caring that are being forged. Intellectually, the critique unfolds through a conversation between ecological ethics and media and cultural studies, and is variously inflected by environmental anthropology, critical studies in marketing and consumption, and geography

The Pacific Sentinel, November 2019

Editor: Jake Johnson Articles in this issue include: Letter from the Editor PSU Dodges Walkout on the Eve of Fall Term 5th Avenue Cinema Then and Now Goodbye Maps Collection, Hello Graduate Collaboratory Thousands of Students Ditch School to Lead Portlanders in Climate Strike Brief Thoughts on Familiar Phrases Critiquing the Critic Nothing Wrong with Apu The Importance of Media Literacy Pop Weekend 2019 (Sandy) Alex G Album Review Clairo Album Review The Signs of Beloved Celebrity Birds of PSU Funny Pagehttps://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pacificsentinel/1024/thumbnail.jp

Multi-disciplinary Green IT Archival Analysis: A Pathway for Future Studies

With the growth of information technology (IT), there is a growing global concern about the environmental impact of such technologies. As such, academics in several research disciplines consider research on green IT a vibrant theme. While the disparate knowledge in each discipline is gaining substantial momentum, we need a consolidated multi-disciplinary view of the salient findings of each research discipline for green IT research to reach its full potential. We reviewed 390 papers published on green IT from 2007 to 2015 in three disciplines: computer science, information systems and management. The prevailing literature demonstrates the value of this consolidated approach for advancing our understanding on this complex global issue of environmental sustainability. We provide an overarching theoretical perspective to consolidate multi-disciplinary findings and to encourage information systems researchers to develop an effective cumulative tradition of research

cii Student Papers - 2021

In this collection of papers, we, the Research Group Critical Information Infrastructures (cii) from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, present nine selected student research articles contributing to the design, development, and evaluation of critical information infrastructures. During our courses, students mostly work in groups and deal with problems and issues related to sociotechnical challenges in the realm of (critical) information systems. Student papers came from four different cii courses, namely Emerging Trends in Digital Health, Emerging Trends in Internet Technologies, Critical Information Infrastructures, and Digital Health in the winter term of 2020 and summer term of 2021

‘Beyond the list’: a critical examination of the development and impacts of statutory and non-statutory heritage lists on the national management of heritage in England

Beyond the list. This doctoral thesis looks at the National Heritage List for England (NHLE) and ‘beyond’ it, by investigating local listing and placing both in the wider context of heritage management in England. The research critically examines understandings of the balance and distinctions between ‘national’ and ‘local’, ‘expert’ and ‘community led’ views of designated and non-designated assets. It assesses innovations in policy and practice since 2010 and provides a fresh perspective on the direction of travel for heritage management. A collaborative project between Historic England and the University of York, the study combines academically rigorous research with findings applicable for practice. Over the last decade, Historic England (HE) has commissioned two major reviews of the statutory lists: Cherry and Chitty (2010) and Saunders (2019). Building on the scope of these two reports, this thesis pays greater attention to the non-statutory lists and includes a wider range of participant views: including local stakeholders alongside heritage professionals. The dual priorities of the heritage sector and academia are reflected in the use of assemblage theory. Participants views are gathered, from a range of perspectives in the assemblage, through focus groups, interviews, and documentary analysis of local authority heritage strategies. On compiling and comparing these views, the research finds implications for four main areas: the coverage of the NHLE, the varying quality of list descriptions, the role of local lists as microcosms of the NHLE, and addressing intangible heritage. The thesis demonstrates that assemblage theory offers a useful perspective for understanding heritage lists in their operational context, highlighting agencies, their interactions, and the resultant evolution of the sector. By conceptualizing lists within the operations of the heritage sector, the findings in this study are relevant to practice whilst contributing to a growing body of heritage research utilizing assemblage perspectives