Acknowledgements

This project has been shaped by the teaching, guidance, and generosity of several Stanford faculty members, whose influence informed both its direction and its depth. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to:

• Zakir Durumeric and Kimberly Ruth, for inspiring this project through their teaching in CS249I: The Modern Internet, and for their thoughtful feedback and guidance later on, which helped frame the investigation into clear research directions.

• Philip Levis, for his time and generosity, as well as the insights and resources he shared, which sharpened my thinking about this topic and encouraged me to leap forward and focus on new problems.

• Maneesh Agrawala, for his outstanding teaching in the field of data visualization, particularly in CS448B: Data Visualization, which influenced the way I approached the presentation of findings in this project.

• Aviad Rubinstein, for helping me reason about the behavior of users within computer systems in CS269I: Incentives in Computer Science. His framing of ecological damage as a market failure broadened my perspective, encouraging me to approach sustainability in computing not only as a technical challenge, but also as an economic and psychological one.