“What is the relationship between media and the environment”? You will be a required to write a short essay of 5 pages in response to the question, (1200-1500 words) due December 2nd. Please use course materials to argue your thesis statement. NOTE: You

“What is the relationship between media and the environment”?

You will be a required to write a short essay of 5 pages in response to the question, (1200-1500 words) due December 2nd. Please use course materials to argue your thesis statement. NOTE: You are required to use course material and also cite 2 outside peer-reviewed sources.

You can think about this in relationship to how media negatively or positively impact the environment; how media can be considered an environment; or how media and the environment are intertwined.

You can take up one of the following three questions:

1. How do various media (photography, the Internet, computer or phone hardware, etc.) effect the environment? (Peters, Parikka, Starosielski, Mukherjee, LeMenager)
2. What does environmental media mean? What happens when we think of the media as creating an environment? (McLuhan, Peters, Parikka, Nakamura, Chun)
3. What does cybernetics mean? How does the history of cybernetics influence our understanding of human-machine interactions particularly in relation to the development of the Internet? (Weiner, Hayles, Haraway, Blas)