Zane Griffin Talley Cooper

@zgtcooper
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Thinking about intersections of data/energy/resource extraction. Incoming Assistant Professor of Digital Media & Film at St. Lawrence University. https://www.zanegriffintalleycooper.com
Thinking about intersections of data/energy/resource extraction
PhDing at UPenn

Alright nerds, Geographies of Digital Wasting has a fancy new website! Endless thanks to Cause + Matter for such a beautiful design. We hope it's useful for y'all! Looking forward to seeing this project continue to grow. @AnnenbergCARGC
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Geographies of Digital Wasting

Geographies of Digital Wasting
Time to let the cat out of the bag. This Fall, Katie and I (and our cats) will be moving to Canton, NY where I will start my new job as Assistant Professor of Digital Media & Film at St. Lawrence University! It’s bittersweet leaving Philly & @AnnenbergPenn but I am SO excited for the future, and all the cool things I’ll be able to do at SLU!
Guys…
The final 3 talks on ENERGY join previous ones by @Aepasek @zgtcooper @tamigraph @dawnnafus et al! Enjoy and please let me know if you find them useful. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE_y90GftjpY1jBRaT0kdJxZV1SkF2-Zm
Electronics - Ecologies #3 Energy

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If you’ve ever asked yourself on a lazy Sunday, “What is the making of Critical Data Center Studies?” @mel_hogan, Dustin Edwards, and I have a fresh new article for you! It’s a sort of state-of-the-field of humanistic data center research and would be a great addition to any syllabus! ☺️ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13548565231224157?journalCode=cona @AnnenbergPenn
“The emissions from production of computing devices exceed the emissions from operating them, so even if devices are more energy efficient producing more of them will make the emissions problem worse. Therefore we must extend the useful life of our computing devices. As a society we need to start treating computational resources as finite and precious, to be utilised only when necessary, and as effectively as possible.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06642
Frugal Computing -- On the need for low-carbon and sustainable computing and the path towards zero-carbon computing

The current emissions from computing are almost 4% of the world total. This is already more than emissions from the airline industry and are projected to rise steeply over the next two decades. By 2040 emissions from computing alone will account for more than half of the emissions budget to keep global warming below 1.5$^\circ$C. Consequently, this growth in computing emissions is unsustainable. The emissions from production of computing devices exceed the emissions from operating them, so even if devices are more energy efficient producing more of them will make the emissions problem worse. Therefore we must extend the useful life of our computing devices. As a society we need to start treating computational resources as finite and precious, to be utilised only when necessary, and as effectively as possible. We need frugal computing: achieving our aims with less energy and material.

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After some thought I have decided to go full steam back into the academic job market. I’m an interdisciplinary multimodal scholar who works at the intersection of Environmenal Communication/Humanities, Science and Technology Studies, and Critical Data Studies. My work concerns entanglements between data, energy, and resource extraction in the Arctic, and I recently made this: https://www.geographiesofdigitalwasting.com. I’m looking for tenure track gigs and postdocs! I’d love to work with you!
Geographies of Digital Wasting

Geographies of Digital Wasting
The Expanse is better than Game of Thrones in almost every conceivable way. It’s criminal how little awards attention it got.
Last year, instead of just zooming in for a cancelled-at-the-last-minute in-person talk, @lifewinning and I decided to spend three days producing a 40-minute video podcast type thing called Industrial Alchemy. I still love it. I ran across it again today and thought the mastodon crowd might enjoy it! It was a fun little piece to put together. https://youtube.com/watch?v=JkMGKdk9Xfc @AnnenbergCARGC
Industrial Alchemy - talk at UIUC 2/4/2022

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