Environmental Communication and the Wild : Image, Industry, and Technology / edited by Phillip D. Duncan and Derek Moscato.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adamczyk, Christopher Lee, contributor.

Duncan, Phillip D., contributor.

Duncan, Phillip D., editor.

Fernandes, Dr. Adalberto, contributor.

Moscato, Derek, editor.

Picado de Almeida, Hugo, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmentalism in mass media.

Natural areas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

This book explores the representation, exploitation, and commodification of primitive and wild natural areas in contemporary media and technology.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Notes

Bibliography

Part I: Techno Wilds

Chapter 1: On Conserving Cyberspace: The Metaphorical Wild and Digital Networks

Metaphor as Constitutive of Cultural Belief Systems

Wilderness and Cyberspace: An Unlikely Pair

Wilderness and Its Influence

Digital Networks as Cyberspace

The Wild in the Digital Machine

(Over)Developing Cyberspace

Conservation and Cyberspace

Chapter 2: Visualizing the Future of AR Environmental Communication

Affordances and Entanglements

AR Affordances for Environmental Topics

Seeing Is Imagining

A Closer Look at "Wild" Nature-Based AR

Wildeverse

Rewild

Re-visualizing Nature-Based AR

Prioritizing by Importance and Difficulty to Visualize

Scale, Obstruction, and Interaction as Central Tools

Embedded Media Working in Coordination

Conclusion

Chapter 3: Nature as Vanishing Wilderness: Mobile Communication Technologies and Colonial Epistemologies

Into the Wild

Mobile Communication in the United States: A Very Brief Genealogy

Discourses on Mobile Communication and the Wilderness, 1990s-2000s

Risk vs. Security

Solitude vs. Connectivity

Technological Mediation vs. Direct Experience

Knowledge vs. Mystery

Enframing and the Western Discourse on Nature

Toward a Decolonial Critique of "the Wild"

Telecommunication Infrastructure as Colonial Apparatus

The "Wilderness" as an Othering of Nature

Conclusions: Repositioning "The Wilderness"

Part II: Performative Wilds

Chapter 4: Environment as Its Own Movie Director: Anti-Representationalism as More-than-Human Cinema

Dodging Trains in the Era of Hyperreality

Film as Natural Eruption.

Fiction as Natural Strategy

Chapter 5: "We Shall Remain Men": Masculinity, Nature, and Environmentalism in YETI Presents Films

Caring for "Mother" Nature in Context

"Gender Doesn't Matter": And Other Mixed Messages from YETI

Chasing Light and Frontier Sustainability

The Last Best Man and Preserving Fatherhood

Tundra Tales and Building (Values) to Last

Chapter 6: Born in China and the International Political Economy of Disneynature

"Disney Citizenship": Corporate Social Responsibility and the Specter of Greenwashing

Disney and the Nature Documentary Genre

Disneynature: The New "True Life"

Born in China: Brand Acculturation for an International Market

Part III: Mediated Wilds

Chapter 7: Wilderness, Constructed: The Dystopian Imaginaries of Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber

The Trouble with Wilderness

Lost (2003-2004)

The City (2005-2013)

Empire (2015-2018)

Chapter 8: From Sacred Lands to Social Media: Indigenous Sovereignty Digitized

Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL): A Fight for Sovereign Rights

Uranium Mining on Sacred Lands: Conflict over Radioactive Harm

Wild Rice (Manoomin) Rights: Honoring Sustenance

Synthesis and Reflection

References

Chapter 9: Transition in Translation: Haikyo, The Wild, and the Mediation of Material Decay on Instagram

Introduction: Welcome to the Broken

The Wild in Haikyo/Haikyo in the Wild

(All of) Haikyo as Social Spatialization

Tagging and Sharing: Haikyo and Platform Vernacular

Here and There, There and Here: Analyzing Haikyo through Social Spatialization and the Platform Vernacular

Exercise Two: Tracking down and Resurrecting an Abandoned Theater.

"The Object and Its Package"-Findings Derived from Platform-Enabled Presentation Choices

Explicit Data: Signs, Hashtags, Comments, and More

Reflections and Traces: Moving (and Browsing) beyond the Image

Conclusion: Endings as Beginnings

Chapter 10: Framing Wildlife through National Geographic: Animal Logic in the Anthropocene

Wildlife, Media, and the Anthropocene

The Commodification of Wilderness

Methods and Data

Results and Analysis

The Wildlife and the Wilderness as an Overexploited Commodity

Conclusion and Limitations

Part IV: Experiential Wilds

Chapter 11: Driving the Discourses of Ecotopia: The Wild and Winding Road of #VanLife

Socializing the Wild Audience

#VanLife: Driving the Great Outdoors

Digital Mobilities: Presentations of Nature and of Self

Mediating Ritual and Frontier

Experiential Environmentalism: From Individual Exploration to Collective Fixer Movements

A Slice of #VanLife: Wild Solitude, Collective Consumption

Eco-Harmony

The Good Life

The Pristine Landscape

Nature's Technology

Curating the Wild: Sensory, Experiential, and Ecological

Chapter 12: The Pennsylvania Wilds and the Rhetorical Construction of Wilderness

A History of the PA Wilds, Rewilding, and Wilderness

Conceptual Foundations and Methods for Analysis

Findings: Five Trends for Invited Action

Viewing

Taking Individual Action

Safeguarding

Quantifying

Spending

Conclusions: Opting into the Hail

Chapter 13: Traces of Extraction: Finding and Forgetting Environmental Destruction in "Wild and Wonderful" West Virginia

Media as Environments and Wilderness as Media

Wilderness as Medium

Canaan Valley Wilderness: An Environment in Environments.

Biophysical, Technological, and Symbolic Media Environments (Systems)

Federal Government: A Technological and Symbolic Environment

Wilderness Preservation and Wildlife Protection: Paradoxical Subsystems

West Virginia: An Extraction Environment

Wild and Wonderful: A System of Beauty

Canaan Valley: An Isolated Environment

Little Canaan Wildlife Management Area

Canaan Valley Wildlife Refuge

Dolly Sods Wilderness

Traces of Extraction

Conclusion: A System of Forgetting

Chapter 14: Losing Raymond: Digital Rescue Technologies, Social Media, and The Wild

Introduction: Loss and Its Location

Regarding The Wild and Wildness: Cronon, Halberstam, Haraway

The Tools and Technologies

Seeing Red: Trail Cameras, the Flash, and Infrared Media

Raymond Update: Facebook, Small Stories, and Community

Index

About the Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781666954654

1-9787-4839-6

1-66695-465-9

9798765154427

OCLC:

1523373814