Lecture Title: Planned Obsolescence and the Capitalocene: The Ecology of AirPods
Speaker: Dr. Sy Taffel (Senior Lecturer at Massey University, New Zealand)
Lecture Time: April 9th, 2:00 PM
Venue: ZOOM：2573998249 (Password：D##U55)
Organizer: School of Foreign Studies
Introduction to the Speaker: Sy Taffel is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies and co-director of the Political Ecology Research Centre at Massey University, Aotearoa-New Zealand. He is the author of Digital Media Ecologies (Bloomsbury 2019) and an editor of Ecological Entanglement in the Anthropocene (Lexington 2016) and Plastic Legacies: Pollution, Persistence and Politics (Athabasca University Press 2021). His research focuses on digital technology and the environment, digital media and society, automation, media and materiality, and digital labour.
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