Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics
by Jennifer Gabrys
Publisher: University of Michigan Press 2011
ISBN/ASIN: 0472117610
ISBN-13: 9780472117611
Description:
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.
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