Sustainable DNA In Conversation

Hogan, M; Verhoeven, D

Sustainable DNA In Conversation

Hogan, M Verhoeven, D

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Citation:: Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene, 2021, pp. 133-152
Issue Date:: 2021-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Hogan, M
dc.contributor.author	Verhoeven, D https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3680-3561
dc.contributor.editor	Miya, C
dc.contributor.editor	Rossier, O
dc.contributor.editor	Rockwell, G
dc.date.accessioned	2021-08-24T05:59:34Z
dc.date.available	2021-08-24T05:59:34Z
dc.date.issued	2021-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene, 2021, pp. 133-152
dc.identifier.isbn	9781783749645
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/150221
dc.description.abstract	Big Tech supports social media, the stock market, insurance companies, scientific research, financial transactions, mass surveillance and monitoring, the ‘Internet of things’, ‘smart city’ sensors and grids, and mobile communications for Internet users writ large. By most industry accounts, data centres—and the cloud infrastructure that undergirds it—has become the most important sociotechnical system of our time, but also the least sustainable. Interestingly, one of the alternatives to these water- and energy-intensive data storage solutions has emerged from advancements in synthetic DNA technologies, now touted by the industry as a safer, greener and more efficient alternative. But how did we get here? How might ideas of ‘sustainability’ and ‘efficiency’ function in this context? In conversation, Mél Hogan and Deb Verhoeven discuss the idea of ‘Sustainable DNA’—in its various instantiations—as an object of critical media studies.
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dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Open Book Publishers
dc.relation.ispartof	Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene
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dc.title	Sustainable DNA In Conversation
dc.type	Chapter
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/School of Communication
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dc.date.updated	2021-08-24T05:59:32Z
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Abstract:

Big Tech supports social media, the stock market, insurance companies, scientific research, financial transactions, mass surveillance and monitoring, the ‘Internet of things’, ‘smart city’ sensors and grids, and mobile communications for Internet users writ large. By most industry accounts, data centres—and the cloud infrastructure that undergirds it—has become the most important sociotechnical system of our time, but also the least sustainable. Interestingly, one of the alternatives to these water- and energy-intensive data storage solutions has emerged from advancements in synthetic DNA technologies, now touted by the industry as a safer, greener and more efficient alternative. But how did we get here? How might ideas of ‘sustainability’ and ‘efficiency’ function in this context? In conversation, Mél Hogan and Deb Verhoeven discuss the idea of ‘Sustainable DNA’—in its various instantiations—as an object of critical media studies.

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