This edited volume interrogates the role of media technologies in the
formation of environments, understood both as physical spaces and as
epistemological constructs about them. Using the concept of
‘environing media’, the book advances a deeper understanding of
how media processes – defined here as the storage, process, and
transmission of data – influence human-Earth relations. Virtually
all aspects of the interconnected global ecological crisis can be
related to the intensification and acceleration of scaling up the
human imprint on the planet by technological means. Combining ideas
from the humanities, arts, and humanistic social sciences, Environing
Media offers a perspective on how we entered the current geological
epoch – the Anthropocene. The ten chapters explore colonial,
planetary, and elemental environing media, with cases including
indigenous history, ocean monitoring, computational history, climate
modeling, environmental history, the air as medium, the biosphere, and
the Earth system. Drawing upon a breadth of examples and expertise in
history, anthropology, geography, cultural history, science and
technology studies, and media studies, the book discovers a novel
approach to human-Earth histories that demonstrates how technologies
have mediated between humans and environments and in the process
contributed to a societal feedback loop between knowing and doing
environment, each impacting the other. Environing Media is a timely
addition for scholars and upper-level students in environmental
humanities and media studies. The Open Access version of chapters 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9 are available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003282891. Chapters 1, 2, 4,
5, and 7 have been made available under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
license. Chapters 3, 8, and 9 have been made available under a
Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) license.
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ISBN
9781000728262
Publisert
2022
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Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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