Information Infrastructures and the Future of Ecological Citizenship in the Anthropocene

Abstract

In the last two decades, the concept of ecological citizenship has become a recurrent theme in both popular and academic discussions. Discussions around the prospects of, and limitations to, ecological citizenship have mostly focused on the idea of political agency and the civic responsibility of individuals in relation to their environments, with an emphasis on environmental justice and sustainability. However, the current scholarship has yet to adequately characterize its conceptual bases and empirical applications from an information perspective. Therefore, this paper provides an overview of citizenship studies and infrastructure studies for developing more nuanced understanding(s) of epistemological models for ecological citizenship in our networked world. Drawing on the literature on information infrastructure, this paper then proposes a conceptual framework to understand ecological citizenship as constituted both discursively and techno-materially through neoliberal, anthropocentric informational infrastructures.

Approaches to the Anthropocene from Communication and Media Studies

“…However, there is a growing interest in exploring the Anthropocene from new perspectives related to communication and media studies. For instance, research on information infrastructure (Dedeoglu and Ekmekcioglu 2020), social media and the Anthropocene (Gärdebo et al 2017), projects on children's media use (Livingstone and Blum-Ross 2020) and their relationship with technology in the context of the Anthropocene (Kraftl et al 2020) or, more broadly, studying the narrative frames as key for the construction of possible representations of the Anthropocene (Lidskog and Waterton 2018;Simon 2020), be them dystopian or-maybe more desirably-hopeful and utopian (Arias-Maldonado 2019). These future research initiatives, together with the rest of the efforts outlined in this article, acknowledge the importance of communication science and media studies in the challenge of not only making sense, but also making meaning of the Anthropocene.…”

Aplicación de la técnica de componentes principales en la determinación de variables de activos ambientales

“…La ejecución de estrategias para la protección ambiental ayuda a las pequeñas y medianas empresas, en este sentido, desde la perspectiva ambiental, se plantea que registrar los hechos económicos relacionados con el capital natural entre los cuales se distingue el rubro relacionado con los activos ambientales, resulta muy favorable para garantizar la sostenibilidad en los procesos que adelantan las organizaciones (Martín et al, 2010). No obstante, calcular este deterioro genera algunas dificultades, puesto que está relacionado con la medición de la degradación del entorno, representando por ejemplo en aspectos intangibles como pueden ser el deterioro de la salud y calidad de vida de las personas (Dedeoglu y Dedeoglu, 2020).…”