The impact of media industry and how do we know that?

Guest Lecturers: Malin Picha Edwardsson and Yevgeniya Arushanyan

Content: This lecture consists of two parts. The first part takes up the transformation of the media industry and the environmental impact of media production and consumption. Questions elaborated on are: what is the environmental impact of producing content for different media channels? And what is the environmental impact connected to media consumption? What is big and what is small in relation to media and sustainability?

In the second part of the lecture, the method of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is presented. Questions elaborated on are: What is LCA and how can it be done? What are the benefits and drawbacks? How can the method be used in different settings?

About: Malin Picha Edwardsson is a PhD student at the Centre for Sustainable Communications at KTH. She has a background in the media industry, both as a project manager within the Swedish Media Publishers’ Association, and as an editor at various Swedish newspapers and a weekly magazine. Her PhD thesis focuses on media production and media consumption, and on the future of media in relation to environmental sustainability.

Yevgeniya Arushanyan is a PhD student at the division of Environmental strategies research – fms and the Centre for Sustainable Communications (CESC). Her PhD thesis focuses on the life cycle environmental impacts of ICT and environmental impacts of future information society.

Literature:

Picha Edwardsson, M., 2014. Environmental aspects of media scenarios for the future ICT society – A qualitative study. Proceedings published at the ICT4S conference in Stockholm in August 2014.

Finnveden, G. & Potting, J. (2014). Life Cycle Assessment (3ed.). In: Wexler, P (Ed.), Encyclopedia ofToxicology, vol 3: (pp. 74-77). Elsevier.