The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies

<p><em>The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies</em> 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.</p><p>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 <i>Handbook </i>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.</p><p>This volume will be an essential resource for students, educators, and scholars of media studies, cultural studies, film, environmental communication, political ecology, science and technology studies, and the environmental humanities.</p><p>The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis. com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Deep gratitude for the generous support of those institutions that provided funding to enable this volume to be available simultaneously in print and open access: University of Oregon Libraries Open Access Publishing Award, Frank J. Guarini School of Busi-ness at John Cabot University, University of Vermont Humanities Center, University of California Santa Barbara, University of Lausanne, and School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University.</p> <p>Introduction</p><p>Antonio López, Adrian Ivakhiv, Stephen Rust, Miriam Tola, Alenda Y. Chang, and Kiu-wai Chu</p><p>PART I Ecomedia Theory </p><p>1 When Do Media Become <i>Eco</i>media? </p><p>Adrian Ivakhiv and Antonio López</p><p>2 Three Ecologies: Ecomediality as Ontology </p><p>Adrian Ivakhiv</p><p>3 Meaning, Matter, Ecomedia </p><p>Christy Tidwell</p><p>4 Blue Media Ecologies: Swimming through the Mediascape with Sir David Attenborough </p><p>Stephen Rust and Verena Wurth</p><p>5 Political and Apolitical Ecologies of Digital Media </p><p>Sy Taffel</p><p>6 Centering Africa in Ecomedia Studies: Interview with Cajetan Iheka </p><p>Miriam Tola, Kiu-wai Chu, and Stephen Rust</p><p>7 Ecomedia and Empire in the US–Mexico Borderlands, 1880–1912 </p><p>Carlos Alonso Nugent</p><p>8 Spatial Documentary Studies, <i>El Mar La Mar</i>,<i> </i>and Elemental Media Remediated </p><p>Janet Walker</p><p>9 Ecomedia Literacy: Bringing Ecomedia Studies into the Classroom </p><p>Antonio López</p><p>PART II Ecomateriality </p><p>10 Disaggregated Footprints: An Infrastructural Literacy Approach to the Sustainable Internet </p><p>Nicole Starosielski, Hunter Vaughan , Anne Pasek, and Nicholas R. Silcox</p><p>11 Collapse Informatics and the Environmental Impact of Information and Communication Technologies </p><p>Laura U. Marks</p><p>12 Electronic Environmentalism: Monitoring and Making Ecological Crises </p><p>Jennifer Gabrys</p><p>13 Radiant Energy and Media Infrastructures of the South </p><p>Rahul Mukherjee</p><p>14 Micro/Climates of Play: On the Thermal Contexts of Games </p><p>Alenda Y. Chang</p><p>15 Relational Ecologies of the Gramophone Disc </p><p>Elodie A. Roy</p><p>16 <i>Core Dump</i>: The Global Aesthetics and Politics of E-Waste </p><p>Mehita Iqani</p><p>PART III Political Ecology </p><p>17 Carbon Capitalism, Communication, and Artificial Intelligence: Placing the Climate Emergency Center Stage </p><p>Benedetta Brevini and Daisy Doctor</p><p>18 Environmental Media Management: Overcoming the Responsibility Deficit </p><p>Pietari Kääpä and Hunter Vaughan</p><p>19 Property Rights Control in the Data-Driven Economy: The Media Ecology of Blockchain Registries </p><p>Jannice Käll</p><p>20 Common Pool Resources, Communication, and the Global Media Commons </p><p>Patrick D. Murphy and E. Septime Sessou</p><p>21 #NOLNG253! Media Use in Modern Environmental Justice Movements </p><p>Ellen E. Moore and Anna Bean</p><p>22 Contesting Digital Colonial Power: Indigenous Australian Sovereignty and Self-Determination in Digital Worlds </p><p>Corrinne Sullivan and Jessica McLean</p><p>23 Who Makes Our Smartphones? Four Moments in Their Lifecycle </p><p>Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller</p><p>PART IV Ecocultures </p><p>24 Media and Ecocultural Identity </p><p>Tema Milstein, Gabi Mocatta, and José Castro-Sotomayor</p><p>25 Eco-Territorial Media Practices: Defending Bodies, Territories, and Life Itself in Latin America </p><p>Diana Coryat</p><p>26 Mapping for Accountability: Decolonizing Land Acknowledgment Initiatives </p><p>Salma Monani and Sarah Gilsoul</p><p>27 Black Media Philosophy and Visual Ecologies: A Conversation between Armond Towns and Jeremy Kamal </p><p>Armond Towns and Jeremy Kamal</p><p>28 On the Ecological Futurabilities of Experimental Film Labs </p><p>Noélie Martin and Jacopo Rasmi</p><p>29 Popular Music: Folk and Folk Rock as Green Cultural Production </p><p>John Parham</p><p>30 Women in the Global Pandemic Media Imagination: Mimetic Desire, Scapegoating Buddhist Hermeneutic, and Beyond </p><p>Chia-ju Chang</p><p>PART V Eco-Affects </p><p>31 Ecomentia, from Televised Catastrophe to Performative Assembly: Collapsonaut Attention in a House on Fire </p><p>Yves Citton</p><p>32 Feeling <i>Wild: </i>The Mediation of Embodied Experience </p><p>Alexa Weik von Mossner</p><p>33 Social Realism and Environmental Crisis: Clio Barnard’s <i>Dark River </i></p><p>David Ingram</p><p>34 Ecopolitical Satire in the Global North </p><p>Nicole Seymour and Anthony Lioi</p><p>35 Fear and Loathing in Ecomedia: Channeling Fear through Horror Tropes in Invasive Species Outreach </p><p>Katrina Maggiulli</p><p>36 Slow Media, Eco-Mindfulness, and the Lifeworld </p><p>Jennifer Rauch</p>