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Environmental Media Studies

Overview

Environmental Media Studies is a new interdisciplinary field which brings together media studies, the environmental humanities, and ecocriticism. In the introductory editorial article for the Journal of Environmental Media, Meryl Shriver-Rice and Hunter Vaughan explain that “Environmental media studies is an interdisciplinary response to the dramatic escalation, over the past two decades, in the role of digital media in our personal and political lives, and in the direness and awareness of environmental threats and challenges of the Anthropocene” (p. 4).

Journals

ECOZON@: European Journal of Literature, Culture, and Environment, Published by Universidad de Alcalá
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Oxford University Press
Journal of Ecohumanism, Published by Transnational Press London
Journal of Environmental Media, Published by Intellect Books
Media+Environment, Published by University of California Press
TRACE: A Journal of Writing, Media, and Ecology, Published by University of Florida.

Books, Edited Volumes

Ecology, Writing Theory, and New Media: Writing Ecology, Edited by Sidney I. Dobrin (Routledge, 2015)
Mediating Nature: The Role of Technology in Ecological Literacy, Edited by Sidney I. Dobrin and Sean Morey (Routledge, 2020)
The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities, Edited By Ursula Heise, Jon Christensen, Michelle Niemann (Routledge, 2017)
Sustainability, Participation and Culture in Communication, Edited by Jan Servaes (Intellect Books, 2013)
Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman: Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises, Edited by Matthias Stephan and Sune Borkfelt (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).
Ecofeminist Science Fiction: International Perspectives on Gender, Ecology, and Literature, Edited By Douglas Vakoch (Routledge, 2021)
The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature, Edited By Douglas Vakoch (Routledge, 2023)
Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment, Edited by Nicole Starosielski and Janet Walker (Routledge, 2016)
Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, Edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014)
Technonatures: Environments, Technologies, Spaces, and Places in the Twenty-first Century, Edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010)

Books, Monographs

Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games, Alenda Y. Chang (University of Minnesota Press, 2019)
Ecocritical Geopolitics Popular Culture and Environmental Discourse, Elena dell'Agnese (Routledge, 2021)
The Environmental Humanities: A Critical Introduction, Robert S. Emmett and David E. Nye (MIT Press, 2017)
Environment, Media and Communication, Anders Hansen (Routledge, 2019)
Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature, Adrian J. Ivakhiv (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013)

Networks & Organizations

ecocriticism and environmental studies, Call for Papers, a service provided by the Department of English at UPenn
Popular Culture Association (PCA): Ecology & Culture Section

Playlist

References

Davies, Sarah Rachael, Megan Halpern, Maja Horst, David Kirby, and Bruce Lewenstein. 2019. “Science Stories as Culture: Experience, Identity, Narrative and Emotion in Public Communication of Science.” Journal of Science Communication 18 (5): A01. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.18050201.Bergillos, Ignacio. 2020. “Media Life in the Anthropocene.” Journal of Environmental Media 1 (1): 27–31. https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00004_1.
Bianchi, Melissa, and Kyle Bohunicky. 2017. “Introduction: Digital Animals.” Trace: A Journal of Writing, Media, and Ecology 1 (1). http://tracejournal.net/trace-issues/issue1/issue1.html#introduction.
Dobrin, Sidney I., and Sean Morey. 2020. “Mediating Interfaces: Getting in Between.” In Mediating Nature: The Role of Technology in Ecological Literacy, edited by Sidney I. Dobrin and Sean Morey, First edition, 1–14. Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media. New York: Routledge.
Shriver-Rice, Meryl, and Hunter Vaughan. 2020. “What Is Environmental Media Studies?” Journal of Environmental Media 1 (1): 3–13. https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00001_2.

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