Sy Taffel

Sy Taffel is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies and co-director of the Political Ecology Research Centre at Massey University, Aotearoa-New Zealand. Sy’s research focuses upon the ecological, material, cultural, and political affordances of digital technologies. His current research project explores the intersections between digital technologies and postgrowth futures. He is the author of Postgrowth Digital Futures (Bristol University Press, forthcoming 2026), Digital Media Ecologies (Bloomsbury 2019), and an editor of Plastic Legacies (University of Athabasca Press 2021) and Ecological Entanglement in the Anthropocene (Lexington 2016).