PhD Defense: Rianne Riemens (Radboud University)
16 April 2025 | Radboud University Nijmegen
The dissertation maps how representatives of Silicon Valley propagate this myth and how it affects their position in public debates. I approach platform companies (Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft) and prominent tech figures (e.g. Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Elon Musk) as cultural producers and political actors. To understand how these actors engage in practices of mythmaking, I use methods of discursive and historical analysis to examine the narratives, green rhetoric, visual identity and underlying ideology of tech-on-climate discourse.