Admission Requirements
Bachelor degree

Learning Outcomes
After completing the course, the student must:
•be familiar with basic terms and concepts in sustainability and ecology
• understand how today's development and use of media and information and communication technologies (ICT) have both positive and negative effects on sustainability
to be able to:
• have sufficient knowledge to be able to reason about, and also be able to apply
knowledge of how media and ICT can be used to contribute to a sustainable society in its future professional activity.

Programme
Students who have taken this course should 1) know about sustainability in general and 2) the relationship between media technologies and sustainability in particular,

The basic structure course consists of approximately two lectures and a seminar
Every week. The course consists of ten parts and will go beyond an introduction and a
summary/conclusion to cover eight topics (eight parts):
1) Introduction
2) Sustainability 101 (basic concepts)
3) Technology, society and sustainability from a historical perspective
4) Environmental psychology and behavior
5) (Direct) negative effects of ICT and media
6) (Selected) positive effects of ICT use
7) ICT and social sustainability
8) Rebound Effects
9) Future images
10) Summary/conclusion

References
Homer-Dixon, T. (2010). A stones journey, The upside of down: catastrophe, creativity, and the renewal of civilization, Island Press.
Brush, A. B., Krumm, J., Gupta, S., & Patel, S. (2015, September). EVHomeShifter: evaluating intelligent techniques for using electrical vehicle batteries to shift when homes draw energy from the grid. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (pp. 1077-1088).
Franquesa, D., & Navarro, L. (2018, May). Devices as a commons: limits to premature recycling. In Proceedings of the 2018 Workshop on Computing within Limits (pp. 1-10).
Massung, E., Schien, D., & Preist, C. (2014, August). Beyond behavior change: Household retrofitting and ICT. In ICT for Sustainability 2014 (ICT4S-14) (pp. 132-139). Atlantis Press.
Romero, M., Hasselqvist, H., & Svensson, G. (2014, August). Supercomputers keeping people warm in the winter. In ICT for Sustainability 2014 (ICT4S-14) (pp. 324-332). Atlantis Press.
Odom, W. (2010, August). " Mate, we don't need a chip to tell us the soil's dry" opportunities for designing interactive systems to support urban food production. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 232-235).
Ganglbauer, E., Fitzpatrick, G., Subasi, Ö., & Güldenpfennig, F. (2014, February). Think globally, act locally: a case study of a free food sharing community and social networking. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing (pp. 911-921).
Cohen-Blankshtain, G., & Rotem-Mindali, O. (2016). Key research themes on ICT and sustainable urban mobility. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 10(1), 9-17.
Bates, O., Hazas, M., Friday, A., Morley, J., & Clear, A. K. (2014, April). Towards an holistic view of the energy and environmental impacts of domestic media and IT. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1173-1182).
Joshi, S., & Pargman, T. C. (2015, September). On fairness & sustainability: Motivating change in the networked society. In EnviroInfo and ICT for Sustainability 2015 (pp. 335-344). Atlantis Press.
Homer-Dixon, T. (2010). A stones journey, The upside of down: catastrophe, creativity, and the renewal of civilization, Island Press.
Brush, A. B., Krumm, J., Gupta, S., & Patel, S. (2015, September). EVHomeShifter: evaluating intelligent techniques for using electrical vehicle batteries to shift when homes draw energy from the grid. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (pp. 1077-1088).
Franquesa, D., & Navarro, L. (2018, May). Devices as a commons: limits to premature recycling. In Proceedings of the 2018 Workshop on Computing within Limits (pp. 1-10).
Massung, E., Schien, D., & Preist, C. (2014, August). Beyond behavior change: Household retrofitting and ICT. In ICT for Sustainability 2014 (ICT4S-14) (pp. 132-139). Atlantis Press.
Romero, M., Hasselqvist, H., & Svensson, G. (2014, August). Supercomputers keeping people warm in the winter. In ICT for Sustainability 2014 (ICT4S-14) (pp. 324-332). Atlantis Press.
Odom, W. (2010, August). " Mate, we don't need a chip to tell us the soil's dry" opportunities for designing interactive systems to support urban food production. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 232-235).
Ganglbauer, E., Fitzpatrick, G., Subasi, Ö., & Güldenpfennig, F. (2014, February). Think globally, act locally: a case study of a free food sharing community and social networking. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing (pp. 911-921).
Cohen-Blankshtain, G., & Rotem-Mindali, O. (2016). Key research themes on ICT and sustainable urban mobility. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 10(1), 9-17.
Bates, O., Hazas, M., Friday, A., Morley, J., & Clear, A. K. (2014, April). Towards an holistic view of the energy and environmental impacts of domestic media and IT. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1173-1182).
Joshi, S., & Pargman, T. C. (2015, September). On fairness & sustainability: Motivating change in the networked society. In EnviroInfo and ICT for Sustainability 2015 (pp. 335-344). Atlantis Press.
Randall, R. (2009). Loss and climate change: The cost of parallel narratives. Ecopsychology, 1(3), 118-129.
Ereaut, G., & Segnit, N. (2006). Warm words: how are we telling the climate story and can we tell it better? (p. 32). London: Institute for Public Policy Research.
Internet Websites and videos

Teaching Methodology
- Lectures
- Seminars and Tutorials
- Independent Study

Language of the Curriculum and Course
English/Swedish

ECTS Credits
7,5 ECTS

Examination Methodology
Written exercises, written examination

Relevance
The course is a good example of how the relationship between media technologies and sustainability can be studied. The course deals with the negative and positive effects of technology use.