Mediating Nature: The Role of Technology in Ecological Literacy (Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media)

Synopsis

Mediating Nature considers how technology acts as a mediating device in the construction and circulation of images that inform how we see and know nature. Scholarship in environmental communication has focused almost exclusively on verbal rather than visual rhetoric, and this book engages ecocritical and ecocompositional inquiry to shift focus onto the making of images. Contributors to this dynamic collection focus their efforts on the intersections of digital media and environmental/ecological thinking. Part of the book’s larger argument is that analysis of mediations of nature must develop more critical tools of analysis toward the very mediating technologies that produce such media. That is, to truly understand mediations of nature, one needs to understand the creation and production of those mediations, right down to the algorithms, circuit boards, and power sources that drive mediating technologies. Ultimately, Mediating Nature contends that ecological literacy and environmental politics are inseparable from digital literacies and visual rhetorics. The book will be of interest to scholars and students working in the fields of Ecocriticism, Ecocomposition, Media Ecology, Visual Rehtoric, and Digital Literacy Studies.

Copyright:

2009

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

174 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780429678165

Related ISBNs:

9780429399121, 9780367025182, 9780367025182

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

12/04/19

Copyrighted By:

Taylor and Francis

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Outdoors and Nature, Language Arts, Earth Sciences, Communication

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Sidney I. Dobrin

Edited by:

Sean Morey