Buenas prácticas para desmitificar la neutralidad ambiental de las tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación

Resumen

Information and communication technologies (ICT) tend to be considered as environmentally neutral devices; however, they do have a significant material impact through their design, manufacture, consumption, and final disposal as electronic waste. Additionally, the increasing digitalisation of society andtherefore, the intensive use of technology demand a critical understanding of ICT consumption to promote sustainable media practices in accordance with the global climate crisis, whose consequences are increasingly evident. Through an extensive documentary search from databases on the Internet, a scientific literature review, exploratory interviews as well as snowball sampling, this article identifies and analyses diverse projects developed in the field of Education and Communication that are trying to ameliorate and draw attention to the harmful and invisible effects of ICT consumption. Therefore, twenty-five international projects that try to motivate good practices and proposals to promote a sustainable ICT consumption have been selected. The results show the scarcity of educational and communication projects related to this issue and highlight the urgency of intensifying the development of initiatives that deal with the environmental impact of ICT devices, considering a green media consumption as a necessary component of media literacy for the twenty-first century ́s citizenship.