The Anthropocene as Media
Information Systems and the Creation of the Human Earth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3759028 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brad Allenby (Arizona State University, Tempe, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 107-140 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764208321345 |
| OpenAlex | W2040706324 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 57 |
A principal result of the Industrial Revolution and subsequent technological development is the evolution of a planet where the dynamics of major natural systems are increasingly affected by human activity. This anthropogenic Earth is increasingly shaped not just by energy and material flows, the traditional concerns of environmentalists, but by information structures and cultural systems that begin to play out in complex ways across global systems. The combination of these information systems with accelerating technological evolution creates relationships and patterns that are not only difficult to perceive, but that are challenging in their complexity, and leads to profound questions about how best to construct an ethical, rational, and responsible world
Anthropocene · Biology · Complex system · Construct (python library) · Data science · Earth science · Earth system science · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Geography · Industrial Revolution · Information revolution · Natural (archaeology) · Planet · Political science · Principal (computer security) · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · Ecology · Environmental Science · Geology · Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems · Law · Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
Concrete and Clay
E Nergy and M Aterial F Low T Hrough the U Rban E Cosystem
A Multispecies Overkill Simulation of the End-Pleistocene Megafaunal Mass Extinction
Consequences of changing biodiversity
Farmers and Their Languages
New Ages for the Last Australian Megafauna
An artificial landscape-scale fishery in the Bolivian Amazon
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems
Justice, nature, and the geography of difference
The Social construction of technological systems
Green Space, Green Time
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
How science makes environmental controversies worse
The Illusion of Technique
Deforesting the Earth
Human-Built World
Moral Imagination
The poverty of theory & other essays
Power Shift
Seeing Like a State
Seeing Like a StateHow Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
The 'New' Science of Networks
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2021 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |