4 papers
A Scoping Review of Methods to Measure the Energy and Carbon Footprint of Web Tracking and Advertising
Nils Bonfils, Christoph Becker
The environmental impact of web tracking and advertising is increasingly receiving attention as the ICT sector's carbon footprint keeps rising. Yet the scholarship addressing this…
Relational Aesthesis in Permacomputing Practice: Building a Solar Powered Website from Reclaimed Materials
Nadia Mariyan Smith, Nils Bonfils, Han Qiao +1
Permacomputing is a nascent concept and community of practice concerned with developing alternative computing systems grounded in principles of resilience, reuse, sufficiency, and…
The Environmental Costs of Surveillance Capitalism: A Case Study of Social Media Platforms
Nils Bonfils, Christoph Becker
The business model of surveillance capitalism, premised on the extraction of behavioral data and its predictive potential for profit, relies on extensive material infrastructure. S…
An Empirical Inquiry into Surveillance Capitalism: Web Tracking
Nils Bonfils
The modern web is increasingly characterized by the pervasiveness of Surveillance Capitalism. This investigation employs an empirical approach to examine this phenomenon through th…