Eco-sonic Media

The Negative Environmental Effects Of Media Culture Are Not Often Acknowledged: The Fuel Required To Keep Huge Server Farms In Operation, Landfills Full Of High Tech Junk, And The Extraction Of Rare Minerals For Devices Reliant On Them Are Just Some Of The Hidden Costs Of The Contemporary Mediascape. Eco-sonic Media Brings An Ecological Critique To The History Of Sound Media Technologies In Order To Amplify The Environmental Undertones In Sound Studies And Turn Up The Audio In Discussions Of Greening The Media. By Looking At Early And Neglected Forms Of Sound Technology, Jacob Smith Seeks To Create A Revisionist, Ecologically Aware History Of Sound Media.