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dc.contributor.authorWickberg, Adam
dc.contributor.authorGärdebo, Johan
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-19T14:49:16Z
dc.date.available2023-01-19T14:49:16Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60715
dc.description.abstractThis edited volume interrogates the role of media technologies in the formation of environments, understood both as physical spaces and 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 modelling, 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.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNC Applied ecologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studiesen_US
dc.subject.otherAnthropocene; Biosphere; Climate modelling; Environment and sustainability; Environmental humanities; Environmental media; Indigenous; Media technologiesen_US
dc.titleChapter 1 EDITORS’ INTRODUCTIONen_US
dc.title.alternativeWhat are environing media?en_US
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003282891-1en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.isPartOfBookf7bb49a6-5ef2-49c5-addd-9dd34e6b1813en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032253855en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032253824en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages13en_US
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: KTH Royal Institute of Technology


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