Abstract
The climate crisis of the 21st century represents an existential risk to humanity and biodiversity, posing essential questions of how communication may serve to coordinate mitigation of and adaptation to climate change. One recent response has been massive investments by governments and corporations in systems providing feedback on the state of Earth— Whole Earth Machines (WEMs). For human-machine communication (HMC) studies, WEMs invite sustained engagement with communication infrastructures as a key constituent of research agendas, beyond the interface encounters at the center of many HMC studies to date. The article presents a conceptualization and operationalization of WEMs as critical infrastructures enabling meaningful interactions with machines and, in turn, with Earth about the conditions of future human-machine coexistence.
DOI
10.30658/hmc.12.2
Author ORCID Identifier
Klaus Bruhn Jensen: 0000-0003-2046-8391
Recommended Citation
Jensen, K. B. (2026). Whole Earth Machines: Human–machine communication for a green transition. Human–Machine Communication, 12, 25–41. https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.12.2
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