The 'invisible' materiality of information technology

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THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT material impacts from extracting, processing, maintaining, and ultimately disposing of the materials used to support information technology, as well as from producing the energy used both by the devices in operation, as well as in their production and disposal. Yet these material impacts.

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Borning, A., Friedman, B., & Logler, N. (2020). The “invisible” materiality of information technology. Communications of the ACM, 63(6), 57–64. https://doi.org/10.1145/3360647

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