Centering the Margins of Digital Culture : Data Centers in Sápmi, Climate Change Denial, and the New Space Race

• Other Authors: Kaun, Anne, Åker, Patrik
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Södertörns högskola, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap 2023
• Subjects: Media and Communications; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Norway; sami
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-50987

This volume contains adaptions of three excellent master theses that were written and defended within the international master’s programme Media, communication, and cultural analysis at Södertörn University in 2022. Running since 2009, the programme has more than 100 alumni who are employed in the media, academic and education. In 2020, the programme coordinator together with the programme council and the department council, chose to distinguish the best theses in a printed volume. This is the third volume in the series. The contributions cover a broad range of topics: how the Sami community is implicated and affected by the data center industry that is increasingly being established in the Northern parts of Sweden, Finland and Norway directly impacting Sápmi; how the NIPCC (The Non-Governmental International Panel on Climate Change) can be understood as a cultural industry producing social meaning, not knowledge, in its dissemination of climate disinformation; how what has been coined the contemporary space race has very little to do with its precursor in the 1960s, today it stands for a particular vision for humanity envisioned by tech billionaires such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.