Is the Digital Sustainable?

While concerns for well-being or privacy as key reasons for digital disengagement gain increasing popularity and awareness what has not yet been explored is the ecological motivation to refuse the digital. In our digital economy based on disposability, and in its accompanying consumer orientation towards the newest and the latest, what is needed is the broader social conversation about sustainability of the digital itself. Funded by Manchester Metropolitan University and its Research Centre for Applied Social Sciences, this project examines current scholarship on environmental sustainability from a critical sociological perspective.

Researchers:

• Adi Kuntsman, Imogen Rattle