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.
About the AuthorJonathon 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.
Book InformationISBN 9781526170347
Author Jonathon TurnbullFormat Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint Manchester University PressPublisher Manchester University Press