Dr Sy Taffel is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies and Co-Director of the Political Ecology Research Centre at Massey University, Aotearoa-New Zealand. He is the author of Digital Media Ecologies  (Bloomsbury 2019), and an editor of Plastic Legacies (University of Athabasca Press 2021) and Ecological Entanglement in the Anthropocene (Lexington 2016). Sy has published in peer-reviewed academic journals including New Media and Society; Media, Culture and Society; Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space; Convergence; and Cultural Politics.

Sy’s research focuses upon the ecological, material, cultural, and political affordances of digital technologies. His current research project explores the intersections between digital technologies, degrowth and postgrowth futures.

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