The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies
New York; London: Routledge (2024), xxiii, 371 pp.
Contains figures, bibliogr. pp. 350-355, index
Series: Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
ISBN 978-1-00-317649-7 (ebook); 978-1-03-200944-5 (pbk)
"The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies gathers leading work by critical scholars in this burgeoning field. Redressing the lack of environmental perspectives in the study of media, ecomedia studies asserts that media are in and about the environment, and environments are socially and materially mediated. The book gives form to this new area of study and brings together diverse scholarly contributions to explore and give definition to the field. The Handbook highlights five critical areas of ecomedia scholarship: ecomedia theory, ecomateriality, political ecology, ecocultures, and eco-affects. Within these areas, authors navigate a range of different topics including infrastructures, supply and manufacturing chains, energy, e-waste, labor, ecofeminism, African and Indigenous ecomedia, environmental justice, environmental media governance, ecopolitical satire, and digital ecologies. The result is a holistic volume that provides an in-depth and comprehensive overview of the current state of the field, as well as future developments." (Publisher description)
PART I: ECOMEDIA THEORY, 17
1 When Do Media Become Ecomedia? / Adrian Ivakhiv and Antonio López, 19
2 Three Ecologies: Ecomediality as Ontology / Adrian Ivakhiv, 35
3 Meaning, Matter, Ecomedia / Christy Tidwell, 43
4 Blue Media Ecologies: Swimming through the Mediascape with Sir David Attenborough / Stephen Rust and Verena Wurth, 51
5 Political and Apolitical Ecologies of Digital Media / Sy Taffel, 59
6 Centering Africa in Ecomedia Studies: Interview with Cajetan Iheka / Miriam Tola, Kiu-wai Chu, and Stephen Rust, 67
7 Ecomedia and Empire in the US–Mexico Borderlands, 1880–1912 / Carlos Alonso Nugent, 73
8 Spatial Documentary Studies, El Mar La Mar, and Elemental Media Remediated / Janet Walker, 84
9 Ecomedia Literacy: Bringing Ecomedia Studies into the Classroom / Antonio López, 99
PART II: ECOMATERIALITY, 109
10 Disaggregated Footprints: An Infrastructural Literacy Approach to the Sustainable Internet / Nicole Starosielski, Hunter Vaughan , Anne Pasek, and Nicholas R. Silcox, 111
11 Collapse Informatics and the Environmental Impact of Information and Communication Technologies / Laura U. Marks, 119
12 Electronic Environmentalism: Monitoring and Making Ecological Crises / Jennifer Gabrys, 129
13 Radiant Energy and Media Infrastructures of the South / Rahul Mukherjee, 137
14 Micro/Climates of Play: On the Thermal Contexts of Games / Alenda Y. Chang, 145
15 Relational Ecologies of the Gramophone Disc / Elodie A. Roy, 153
16 Core Dump: The Global Aesthetics and Politics of E-Waste / Mehita Iqani, 160
PART III: POLITICAL ECOLOGY, 169
17 Carbon Capitalism, Communication, and Artificial Intelligence: Placing the Climate Emergency Center Stage / Benedetta Brevini and Daisy Doctor, 171
18 Environmental Media Management: Overcoming the Responsibility Deficit / Pietari Kääpä and Hunter Vaughan, 179
19 Property Rights Control in the Data-Driven Economy: The Media Ecology of Blockchain Registries / Jannice Käll, 187
20 Common Pool Resources, Communication, and the Global Media Commons / Patrick D. Murphy and E. Septime Sessou, 194
21 #NOLNG253! Media Use in Modern Environmental Justice Movements [USA] / Ellen E. Moore and Anna Bean, 203
22 Contesting Digital Colonial Power: Indigenous Australian Sovereignty and Self-Determination in Digital Worlds / Corrinne Sullivan and Jessica McLean, 212
23 Who Makes Our Smartphones? Four Moments in Their Lifecycle / Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller, 220
PART IV: ECOCULTURES, 229
24 Media and Ecocultural Identity / Tema Milstein, Gabi Mocatta, and José Castro-Sotomayor, 231
25 Eco-Territorial Media Practices: Defending Bodies, Territories, and Life Itself in Latin America / Diana Coryat, 244
26 Mapping for Accountability: Decolonizing Land Acknowledgment Initiatives / Salma Monani and Sarah Gilsoul, 252
27 Black Media Philosophy and Visual Ecologies: A Conversation between Armond Towns and Jeremy Kamal / Armond Towns and Jeremy Kamal, 261
28 On the Ecological Futurabilities of Experimental Film Labs / Noélie Martin and Jacopo Rasmi, 271
29 Popular Music: Folk and Folk Rock as Green Cultural Production / John Parham, 278
30 Women in the Global Pandemic Media Imagination: Mimetic Desire, Scapegoating Buddhist Hermeneutic, and Beyond / Chia-ju Chang, 286
PART V: ECO-AFFECTS, 295
31 Ecomentia, from Televised Catastrophe to Performative Assembly: Collapsonaut Attention in a House on Fire / Yves Citton, 297
32 Feeling Wild: The Mediation of Embodied Experience / Alexa Weik von Mossner, 305
33 Social Realism and Environmental Crisis: Clio Barnard’s Dark River / David Ingram, 312
34 Ecopolitical Satire in the Global North / Nicole Seymour and Anthony Lioi, 319
35 Fear and Loathing in Ecomedia: Channeling Fear through Horror Tropes in Invasive Species Outreach / Katrina Maggiulli, 327
36 Slow Media, Eco-Mindfulness, and the Lifeworld / Jennifer Rauch, 337
Afterword: Posthumous Ecomedia / Séan Cubitt, 345
1 When Do Media Become Ecomedia? / Adrian Ivakhiv and Antonio López, 19
2 Three Ecologies: Ecomediality as Ontology / Adrian Ivakhiv, 35
3 Meaning, Matter, Ecomedia / Christy Tidwell, 43
4 Blue Media Ecologies: Swimming through the Mediascape with Sir David Attenborough / Stephen Rust and Verena Wurth, 51
5 Political and Apolitical Ecologies of Digital Media / Sy Taffel, 59
6 Centering Africa in Ecomedia Studies: Interview with Cajetan Iheka / Miriam Tola, Kiu-wai Chu, and Stephen Rust, 67
7 Ecomedia and Empire in the US–Mexico Borderlands, 1880–1912 / Carlos Alonso Nugent, 73
8 Spatial Documentary Studies, El Mar La Mar, and Elemental Media Remediated / Janet Walker, 84
9 Ecomedia Literacy: Bringing Ecomedia Studies into the Classroom / Antonio López, 99
PART II: ECOMATERIALITY, 109
10 Disaggregated Footprints: An Infrastructural Literacy Approach to the Sustainable Internet / Nicole Starosielski, Hunter Vaughan , Anne Pasek, and Nicholas R. Silcox, 111
11 Collapse Informatics and the Environmental Impact of Information and Communication Technologies / Laura U. Marks, 119
12 Electronic Environmentalism: Monitoring and Making Ecological Crises / Jennifer Gabrys, 129
13 Radiant Energy and Media Infrastructures of the South / Rahul Mukherjee, 137
14 Micro/Climates of Play: On the Thermal Contexts of Games / Alenda Y. Chang, 145
15 Relational Ecologies of the Gramophone Disc / Elodie A. Roy, 153
16 Core Dump: The Global Aesthetics and Politics of E-Waste / Mehita Iqani, 160
PART III: POLITICAL ECOLOGY, 169
17 Carbon Capitalism, Communication, and Artificial Intelligence: Placing the Climate Emergency Center Stage / Benedetta Brevini and Daisy Doctor, 171
18 Environmental Media Management: Overcoming the Responsibility Deficit / Pietari Kääpä and Hunter Vaughan, 179
19 Property Rights Control in the Data-Driven Economy: The Media Ecology of Blockchain Registries / Jannice Käll, 187
20 Common Pool Resources, Communication, and the Global Media Commons / Patrick D. Murphy and E. Septime Sessou, 194
21 #NOLNG253! Media Use in Modern Environmental Justice Movements [USA] / Ellen E. Moore and Anna Bean, 203
22 Contesting Digital Colonial Power: Indigenous Australian Sovereignty and Self-Determination in Digital Worlds / Corrinne Sullivan and Jessica McLean, 212
23 Who Makes Our Smartphones? Four Moments in Their Lifecycle / Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller, 220
PART IV: ECOCULTURES, 229
24 Media and Ecocultural Identity / Tema Milstein, Gabi Mocatta, and José Castro-Sotomayor, 231
25 Eco-Territorial Media Practices: Defending Bodies, Territories, and Life Itself in Latin America / Diana Coryat, 244
26 Mapping for Accountability: Decolonizing Land Acknowledgment Initiatives / Salma Monani and Sarah Gilsoul, 252
27 Black Media Philosophy and Visual Ecologies: A Conversation between Armond Towns and Jeremy Kamal / Armond Towns and Jeremy Kamal, 261
28 On the Ecological Futurabilities of Experimental Film Labs / Noélie Martin and Jacopo Rasmi, 271
29 Popular Music: Folk and Folk Rock as Green Cultural Production / John Parham, 278
30 Women in the Global Pandemic Media Imagination: Mimetic Desire, Scapegoating Buddhist Hermeneutic, and Beyond / Chia-ju Chang, 286
PART V: ECO-AFFECTS, 295
31 Ecomentia, from Televised Catastrophe to Performative Assembly: Collapsonaut Attention in a House on Fire / Yves Citton, 297
32 Feeling Wild: The Mediation of Embodied Experience / Alexa Weik von Mossner, 305
33 Social Realism and Environmental Crisis: Clio Barnard’s Dark River / David Ingram, 312
34 Ecopolitical Satire in the Global North / Nicole Seymour and Anthony Lioi, 319
35 Fear and Loathing in Ecomedia: Channeling Fear through Horror Tropes in Invasive Species Outreach / Katrina Maggiulli, 327
36 Slow Media, Eco-Mindfulness, and the Lifeworld / Jennifer Rauch, 337
Afterword: Posthumous Ecomedia / Séan Cubitt, 345
