Greening through collective action: Assessing the Internet’s environmental impacts with participatory methods

Research Question

1. What sociotechnical methodologies, tools, and forms of expertise are needed to accurately measure and assess the environmental impacts of internet infrastructures?
2. How can organizations more effectively include the perspectives of the communities most likely to be impacted by the environmental and downstream social effects of the expansion of the computing industry?
3. What structural and organizational changes are needed to ensure that green, justice-oriented design changes are implemented? In other words, how do measurement practices inform and rationalize power dynamics?