Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics

by Jennifer Gabrys

Book Overview

This is a study of the material life of information and its devices; of electronic waste in its physical and electronic incarnations; a cultural and material mapping of the spaces where electronics in the form of both hardware and information accumulate, break down, or are stowed away. Electronic waste occurs not just in the form of discarded computers but also as a scatter of information devices, software, and systems that are rendered obsolete...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472117610
• ISBN13: 9780472117611
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"