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The hidden costs of digital life

Green Alsion, Denmark

Did you know that, e.g., video streaming via smart phone and video calls via laptop are, just like all up- and downloads, actually a fairly C02 intensive  activities? Here, you find out more!

Total run time 09:42 minutes
Speaker: Kerstin Fischer

Email: greenalsion@alsion.dk

Studies mentioned in the podcast:
A. Andrae, T. Edler, On global electricity usage of communication technology: trends to 2030, Challenges 6 (2015) 117.

 Janine Morley, Kelly Widdicks, and Mike Hazas. Digitalisation, energy and data demand: The impact of internet traffic on overall and peak electricity consumption. Energy Research & Social Science, 38:128 – 137, 2018.

 Chris Preist, Daniel Schien, and Paul Shabajee. Evaluating sustainable interaction design of digital services: The case of YouTube. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI ’19, pages 397:1–397:12, New York, NY, USA, 2019. ACM.

 Kelly Widdicks (2019): Understanding and Mitigating the Impact of Internet Demand in Everyday Life. PhD Dissertation, Lancaster University.



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