ABSTRACT
This chapter explores environmental platforms, interfaces, and open data through their computational architecture, interactive affordances, and environmental knowledge production. New environmental platforms are analyzed as open-access data journalism platforms, as knowledge-producing actor-networks, and as territorial assemblages. Hence, a reference to nature and environment often reflects a historical moment of human thought, political economy, or the current ideological climate, but very seldom nature itself. Instone. L rightly argues that the co-construction of environmental knowledge blurs the boundary between politics, science, and technology and extends agency to heterogenic collectives and networks–both natural and artificial. As media platforms and interfaces have the productive power to modify multiple publics' information landscape, often they effectively form socio-technological assemblages, such as actor-networks binding the three open data platforms. The platform has been among the most widely read news providers in the world, reaching over 100 million readers daily.
