Digital ecologies draws together leading social science and humanities scholars to examine how digital media are reshaping the futures of conservation, environmentalism, and ecological politics. The book offers an overview of the emerging field of interdisciplinary digital ecologies research by mapping key debates and issues in the field, with original empirical chapters exploring how livestreams, sensors, mobile technologies, social media platforms, and software are reconfiguring life in profound ways. The collection traverses contexts ranging from animal exercise apps, to surveillance systems on the high seas, and is organised around the themes of encounters, governance, and assemblages. Digital ecologies also includes an agenda-setting intervention by the book's editors, and three closing chapter-length provocations by leading scholars in digital geographies, the environmental humanities, and media theory that set out trajectories for future research.
Edited by:
Jonathon Turnbull,
Adam Searle,
Henry Anderson-Elliott,
Eva Haifa Giraud
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 156mm,
Width: 234mm,
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9781526188601
ISBN 10: 1526188600
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 01 February 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction: What is digital ecologies? - Adam Searle, Eva Haifa Giraud, Jonathon Turnbull, and Henry Anderson-Elliott Part I: Digital encounters 1 Running wild: Encountering digital animals through exercise apps – Bill Adams, 2 Chris Sandbrook, and Emma Tait 2 Digital sonic ecologies: Encountering the non-human through digital sound recordings – Hannah Hunter, Sandra Jasper and Jonathan Prior 3 Trap-cam of care: Conservation and the digital ecology of online lobster entrapment – Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme 4 Our Chicken Life: Byproductive labour in the digital flock – Catherine Oliver Part II: Digital Governance 5 On-bird surveillance: Albatrosses, sensors, and the lively governance of marine ecologies – Oscar Hartman Davies and Jamie Lorimer 6 #AmazonFires and the online composition of ecological politics – Liliana Bounegru, Jonathan Gray and Gabriele Colombo 7 Children and young people's digital climate action in Australia: Co-belonging with place, ecology and Country – Jess McLean and Lara Newman 8 “Saving the knowledge helps to save the seed”: Generating a collaborative seed data project in London – Sophia Doyle and Katharine Dow Part III: Digital Assemblages 9 Programming nature as infrastructure in the smart forest city – Jennifer Gabrys 10 Ecological computationality: Cognition, recursivity, and a more-than-human political actor - Andrew C. Dwyer 11 Mediated natures: Towards an integrated framework of analogue and digital ecologies – Mari Arold Part IV: Digital Ecological Directions Afterword 1 Digital ecologies and digital geographies – Gillian Rose Afterword 2 Making digital ecologies visible – Dolly Jørgensen and Finn Arne Jørgensen Afterword 3 Finding the media in digital ecologies – Eva Haifa Giraud Index -- .
Jonathon Turnbull is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford Adam Searle is a University Research Fellow in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham Henry Anderson-Elliott is an independent scholar, previously based in the School of Geography at the University of Oxford Eva Haifa Giraud is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Society at the University of Sheffield.
