Sy Taffel is a senior lecturer in media studies and co-director of the Political Ecology Research Centre at Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand. He has published work on political ecologies of digital media, media and materiality, hacktivism, automation, and pervasive/locative media. He is the author of Digital Media Ecologies (Bloomsbury 2019) and a co-editor of Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene (Lexington, 2017 with Nicholas Holm).