{"id":973,"date":"2013-03-25T11:45:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T18:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/the-real-costs\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T22:59:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T06:59:28","slug":"the-real-costs","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/the-real-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/realcosts-1024x714-3.png\" alt=\"realcosts-1024x714.png\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Real Costs<\/em> is a form of eco-visualization that responds in real-time to web-based queries and provides a graphic description of the ecological impact of travel decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project consists of an open-source Firefox web browser plug-in that inserts CO2 emissions data into airplane travel e-commerce websites such as Orbitz.com, United.com, Delta.com, and so on. Like the nutritional information labeling included on food packaging, this plug-in provides emissions information that is otherwise excluded from travel websites.[1] Instead of a search for travel returning the cost in dollars,&nbsp;<em>The Real Costs&nbsp;<\/em>informs travellers of the cost of their journey in carbon emisssions and the number of tree-years required to offset it, along with comparative carbon footprint information for other forms of travel. Another graph shows per-capita carbon output by country, with the US off the chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artist Michael Mandiberg explains that &#8220;The objective of&nbsp;<em>The Real Costs<\/em>&nbsp;is to increase awareness of the environmental impact of certain day-to-day choices in the life of an Internet user. By presenting this environmental impact information in the place where decisions are being made, I hope to impact the viewer, encourage a sense of individual agency, start ongoing discussions, and provide a set of alternatives and immediate actions. In the process, the user\/viewer might even consider a personal transformation from passive consumer to engaged citizen.&#8221;[1]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[1]&nbsp;http:\/\/www.mandiberg.com\/a-case-study-of-the-real-costs\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4465,"template":"","artist":[1090],"streams":[11],"keywords":[4418,4419],"decade":[],"media":[],"class_list":["post-973","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist-michael-mandiberg","streams-networks-surveillance-culture-jamming","keywords-michael-mandiberg","keywords-real-costs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4472,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/973\/revisions\/4472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}