Alexander R. E. Taylor | aretaylor.bsky.social
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Anthropologist | Data Centres | Sustainability | Space Infrastructure | Senior Lecturer @ExeterComms | Marconi Fellow @UniofOxford | PhD @Cambridge_Uni
Joined February 2019
Here's a link to the @C4Dispatches documentary that was prompted by my @coronatimesblog article on the environmental impact of online activity during the #pandemic (I was a lead consultant on the doc): You can also watch it @All4. Original article below!.
“Staying online could be costing us the earth.”. Every time you interact online, it could be damaging the environment. From Zoom meetings, to social posts, #Dispatches reveals your online carbon footprint and asks if big tech companies are as green as they say.
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📢 Three permanent positions in Communications at Exeter!.
🚨NEW JOBS ALERT!🚨. The Communications programme in @UniOfExeterHASS is advertising for three new positions. Come and join our friendly, passionate and hard-working team✨. Job 1: Senior Lecturer in Communications and Digital Media (1/3) .
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RT @CarissaVeliz: 1/ #Zoom has recently updated its terms of service, with some huge implications for #privacy. Here’s what you should know….
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'Ireland isn’t going to limit data centers despite high energy use - Announcement comes as government issues an amber warning for the grid' 👀@patbrodie337 @PBresnihan
datacenterdynamics.com
Announcement comes as government issues an amber warning for the grid
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🛰️Really enjoyed the Off-Earth Atlas conference today @UCLanthropology @ETHNOISS on 'Architectures and Infrastructures' - thanks to the organisers for organising such a thought-provoking event!
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RT @DHSHeritageOx: 📢 Join us on Thursday 1 June @DHSHeritageOx @TORCHOxford for ‘#Music & the Internet of Things: #Computing, Creativity &….
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RT @mrgreen: This is WILD. Boston Dynamics robots can dance with more rhythm than most of us. I’m not sure whether to be impressed or….
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RT @joinaunionpls: Why did a climate activist interrupt a snooker match? . What's the strategy here? THREAD:. #JustStopOil .
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RT @danmcquillan: Looks like a great workshop: 'Data: Materialities, Infrastructures, Critiques' . No need for an a….
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Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) invites scholars working with or on topics relating to (big) data, computation, artificial intelligence, and the tech-industry to a one-day interdisciplinary...
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RT @ExeterComms: PhD studentship - 'Temporalities of nuclear infrastructure: histories and futures of energy and.community' - with Dr Karen….
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RT @ExeterComms: 📢 Excited to share the programme for our student-led Twitter conference on #DigitalInequality 💻taking place on the 29th Ma….
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#BudgetDay2023 UK #Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt @Jeremy_Hunt announces that #NuclearEnergy could be classed as 'environmentally sustainable' (subject to consultation) under the Government's nuclear programme #SpringStatement.
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RT @ExeterComms: 'Digital detoxing, the attention economy, and the paradoxes of self-regulation' - a talk by Professor Trine Syvertsen @tri….
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RT @pawlak_mikolaj: Today the Routledge International Handbook of Failure is out!!. Its 35 chapters examine the study of failure in social….
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This Handbook examines the study of failure in social sciences, its manifestations in the contemporary world, and the modalities of dealing with it – both in theory and in practice. It draws together...
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Thanks to the wonderful editors @Adi_Mica, @pawlak_mikolaj, Anna Horolets and @KubickiPawel. Failure Studies folk may also be interested in their work as part of the Failure Lab @UniWarszawski.
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Check out the entire book at the link below (5 chapters are #OpenAccess - the rest of the book will be available from 14 February 2023). It marks a significant contribution to the interdisciplinary field of #FailureStudies
taylorfrancis.com
This Handbook examines the study of failure in social sciences, its manifestations in the contemporary world, and the modalities of dealing with it – both in
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The chapter ultimately argues that cloud services provide tech manufacturers with a means to continue producing devices that are not built to last, bolstering design cultures that are based on rapid obsolescence and routine upgrading (ultimately leading to more #Ewaste)
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If the failure of a digital device may once have resulted in a disruptive data loss event, cloud backup and recovery tools work to reduce this disruptive impact - this has implications for theories of failure that are based on the premise that failure is a disruptive event.
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Cloud #backup solutions aim to ensure that no matter what should happen to a user’s device, their files and data can be quickly re-downloaded and re-installed on a new device with ease.
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The chapter approaches the cloud as an infrastructure designed to anticipate and absorb 'digital failure' (a term I use to refer to a device breaking, software freezing, etc.).
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Happy to announce that my chapter 'Cloud Backup and Restore: The Infrastructure of Digital Failure' is available #OpenAccess in the Routledge International Handbook of Failure edited by @Adi_Mica, @pawlak_mikolaj, Anna Horolets and @KubickiPawel .
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