Overview
Technological Ecologies and Sustainability, edited by Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Heidi McKee and Richard Selfe, addresses through its collection of essays, the concerns and challenges of teaching and administrating writing in a digital environment. Drawing on both the field of ecology and Latour’s work with actor-network theory, in which human and non-human actors interact, the editors propose book a framework for understanding technology as creating its own “living” system where people and machines interact in a dynamic way—each influencing and changing the other. The editors also draw from ecology the idea of “sustainability,” and put forth questions concerning what it means to sustain an ecology and what ecologies are worth sustaining. A key question, “Sustaining what and for who?” leads them to divide the book into four major sections. Section One