Article:
Greening media studies – An interview with Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller

Author(s): Kooijman, Jaap

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Not often does reading an academic book make you feel uncomfortable, pushing you out of your comfort zone as a scholar and consumer. GREENING THE MEDIA (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012) by Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller is such a book – an ‘inconvenient truth’ that forces one to realise that our media consumption comes at a price. Backed by revealing data Maxwell and Miller show how our media culture of flat-screen televisions, iPads, and smartphones has a destructive impact on the ecology, the global energy supply, and the working conditions of laborers in low-wage countries.

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Kooijman, Jaap: Greening media studies – An interview with Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies, Jg. 2 (2013), Nr. 1, S. 77-82. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15074.
@ARTICLE{Kooijman2013,
 author = {Kooijman, Jaap},
 title = {Greening media studies – An interview with Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller},
 year = 2013,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15074}",
 volume = 2,
 address = {Amsterdam},
 journal = {NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies},
 number = 1,
 pages = {77--82},
}
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