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 books 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.
In a context where digital media are reshaping the futures of conservation, environmentalism, and ecological politics for better and for worse Digital ecologies draws together leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences to establish a research agenda for making sense of these transformations.
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 Jųrgensen and Finn Arne
Jųrgensen
Afterword 3 Finding the media in digital ecologies Eva Haifa Giraud
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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. -- .
