Writing

Sole Authored Monograph

Taffel, S. (2019) Digital Media Ecologies: Entanglements of Content, Code and Hardware. New York and London: Bloomsbury

Edited Books

Farrelly, T. Taffel, S. and Shaw, I (2021) eds. Plastic Legacies: Pollution, Persistence and Politics, University of Athabasca Press

Holm, N & Taffel, S. (2016) eds, Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene: Working with Nature, Lanham: Lexington Books

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:

Taffel, S (2023) Data and Oil: Metaphor, Materiality and Metabolic Rifts, New Media and Society 25 (5) 980-998

Taffel, S. (2023). AirPods and the earth: Digital technologies, planned obsolescence and the Capitalocene. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 6(1), 433-454.

Taffel, S. (2021) Google’s Lens: Computational Photography and Platform Capitalism, Media Culture and Society

Taffel, S. (2019) Automating Creativity:Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Cognition, Spheres: Journal for Digital Cultures Vol 6

Taffel, S. (2018) Hopeful Extinctions: Tesla, Technological Solutionism and the Anthropocene, Culture Unbound: Journal of Contemporary Cultural Research

Taffel, S. (2016) Technofossils of the Anthropocene: Media, Geology and Plastics, Cultural Politics, Duke University Press

Taffel, S. (2016) Perspectives on the Postdigital: Beyond Rhetorics of Novelty and Progress, Convergence, Sage

Taffel, S. (2015) Towards an Ethical Electronics? Ecologies of Congolese Conflict Minerals, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, X(X),1–16,

Taffel, S. (2015) Archaeologies of Electronic Waste, Journal of Contemporary Archaeology Vol 2 Issue 1 p78-85

Taffel, S. (2015) We Have Never Been Open: Activism and Cryptography in Surveillance Societies, MediaNZ: Media Studies Journal of Aotearoa New Zealand, Volume 14, Issue 2 p52-72

Taffel, S. (2015) Anti-Social| Asocial| Associated: Mapping the Social in Social Media, Global Media Journal: Australian Edition, Volume 9 Issue 1

Taffel, S. (2013) Scalar Entanglement in Digital Media Ecologies, NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies. Vol. 2 No. 1, Spring 2013. University of Amsterdam Press p233-254

Taffel, S. (2012) Escaping Attention: Digital Media Hardware, Materiality and Ecological Cost, Culture Machine, Vol 13 (2012) Paying Attention, ISSN 1465-4121, Open Humanities Press p1-28

Taffel, S. (2012) Ecologies of Machines: Commodities and Contribution, NYX a Nocturnal: Issue 7: Machines: Spring/Summer 2012 ISSN 1758-9630 p28- 35

Book Chapters

Taffel, S. (2023) “Political and Apolitical Ecologies of Digital Media“, in The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies, Eds Antonio López, Adrian Ivakhiv, Stephen Rust, Miriam Tola, Alenda Y. Chang, Kiu-wai Chu

Taffel, S. & Grünberger, N (2023) Politics, Sustainability and Post-Digitality – The role of political actors for a more sustainable digitality. In: Innsbruck University Press; Beinsteiner, Andreas; Grünberger, Nina; Hug, Theo; Kapelari, Suzanne: Ökologische Krisen und Ökologien der Kritik. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press 67-77

Taffel, S, Bedford, L. & Mann, M (2022) Ecocide isn’t Ethical: Political Ecology and Capitalist AI Ethics, in Economies of Virtue – The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in AI, Eds Thao Phan, Jake Goldenfein, Declan Kuch and Monique Mann.

Taffel, S. (2021) “Communicative Capitalism, Technological Solutionism, and The Ocean Cleanup” in Farrelly, T., Taffel, S., and Shaw, I Plastic Legacies: Pollution, Persistence and Politics, University of Athabasca Press.

Farrelly, T. Taffel, S. and Shaw, I (2021) “Our Plastic Inheritance” in Farrelly, T. Taffel, S. and Shaw, I. Plastic Legacies: Pollution, Persistence and Politics, University of Athabasca Press. 

Taffel, S. (2020) Ecological Crises and Equitable Futures, in Walsh, S. and Murtola, A-M, Whose Future, Economic and Social Research Aotearoa

Taffel, S. (2017) Digital Place: Globalizing Identity and Citizenship in Turangawaewae: Identity and Citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand, eds Shaw, R., Cain, T. and Kahu, E., New Zealand: Massey University Press

Taffel, S. (2016) “Invisible Bodies and Forgotten Spaces: Materiality, Toxicity, and Labour in Digital Ecologies”, in Randell-Moon, H. and Tippet, R. Embodied Security: Technologies of Race and Biopower, London and New York: Routledge

Taffel, S. & Holm, N. (2016) “Ecological Crises, Nonhumans and the Age of Man”, in Holm, N & Taffel, S. eds, Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene: Working with Nature, Lanham: Lexington Books

Taffel. S (2016) “Mapping the Anthropocene”, in Holm, N & Taffel, S. eds, Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene: Working with Nature, Lanham: Lexington Books

Journal Special Issue Editorial:

Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Volume 32 Number 6 December 2018, Special Issue, Cultures of Capitalism.