Mediating Nature

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The Role of Technology in Ecological Literacy

Series: Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media

Summary

Mediating Nature explores how technology shapes the way we visualise and understand nature through the images it produces. Moving beyond traditional verbal rhetoric, this collection highlights the critical role of visual media in environmental communication. Contributors delve into the relationship between digital media and ecological thought, emphasising the need to examine the very technologies—algorithms, circuitry, and power systems—that underpin these visual mediations.

The book argues that ecological awareness and environmental politics are deeply intertwined with digital literacy and visual rhetoric, offering fresh insights into how nature is represented and understood in contemporary society.
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This book is ideal for scholars and students in Ecocriticism, Ecocomposition, Media Ecology, Visual Rhetoric, and Digital Literacy Studies seeking to deepen their understanding of how digital technologies mediate environmental knowledge and communication.

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.

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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 Rhetoric, and Digital Literacy Studies.

Series: Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367025182

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 19 November 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 2 Line drawings, black and white; 19 Halftones, black and white; 21 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Sidney I. Dobrin
Edited by Sean Morey

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 510g

Pages: 188

Collections

Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction Science & Nature Series: Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media

About the Author

Sidney I. Dobrin is Professor and Chair in the Department of English at the University of Florida, USA. He is the founding director/editor of TRACE Innovation Initiative.

Sean Morey is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.

Mediating Nature