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Drawing on examples of Bitcoin and climate disinformation, this article demonstrates why Big Tech algorithms have a significant environmental impact and how media literacy educators can respond. Big Tech algorithms reinforce the economic models of surveillance and carbon capitalism, which are dependent on two forms of extractivism: data harvesting and resource extraction. To encourage a holistic environmental analysis of algorithms, ecomedia literacy’s four zone approach enables an investigation from the perspectives of ecoculture, political ecology, ecomateriality, and lifeworld. For media literacy educators, the challenge is to develop curricula and methods that address these different standpoints, which can include critical media literacy, design justice, civic media literacies, news and misinformation literacies, and ethical algorithm audits.
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2022
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AI, Surveillance Capitalism, Algorithms, Ecomedia Literacy
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Lopez, Antonio, and Olivia Frenkel. “Algorithms and Climate: An Ecomedia Literacy Perspective - The Journal of Media Literacy.” The Journal of Media Literacy, September 2022.