A Model for Green Design of Online News Media Services

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Abstract

The use of information and communication technology and the web-based products it provides is responsible for significant emissions of greenhouse gases. In order to enable the reduction of emissions during the design of such products, it is necessary to estimate as accurately as possible their carbon impact over the
entire product system. In this work we describe a new method which combines models of energy consumption during the use of digital media with models of the behavior of the audience. We apply this method to conduct an assessment of the annual carbon emissions for the product suite of a major international news
organization. We then demonstrate its use for green design by evaluating the impacts of five different interventions on the product suite. We find that carbon footprint of the online newspaper amounts to approximately 7600 tCO2e per year, of which 75% are caused by the user devices. Among the evaluated scenarios a significant uptake of eReaders in favor of PCs has the greatest reduction potential. Our results also show that even a significant reduction of data volume on a web page would only result in small overall energy savings.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World-Wide Web
Subtitle of host publicationWWW 2013
Place of PublicationGeneva, Switzerland
PublisherACM Press / Sheridan
Pages1111-1122
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4503-2035-1
ISBN (Print)978-1-4503-2035-1
Publication statusPublished - 13 May 2013

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  • Bristol Interaction Group

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