Please share the following call for presenters: “When Corona Met Climate Change… What Changed?” A series of live, short (under 3 minutes), and creative responses to the intersection of coronavirus and climate change, 50 years after Earth Day and 50 years before Ecotopia Day (EarthDay+100).
Archive for the ‘Media ecology’ Category
CFP: “When Corona Met Climate Change…”
Posted in Academe, Climate change, Media ecology, tagged calls, Coronavirus, Earth Day, Earth Day 2020, events, hyper-events, lockdown, pandemic politics, virtual gatherings on April 7, 2020 | 1 Comment »
Opening access…
Posted in Media ecology, tagged Academe, ecomedia, ecomedia studies, journals, media and environment, Media+Environment, open access, University of California Press on October 28, 2019 | 1 Comment »
Janet Walker, Alenda Chang, and I talk about the open-access model we’ve chosen for Media+Environment journal, here on the University of California Press blog. “OA is a bit like ‘the cloud.’ It may seem ethereal and free, but in reality it’s tangible and the subsidies have got to come from somewhere! We’re trying to figure […]
Announcing Media+Environment Journal
Posted in Media ecology, tagged ecocinema studies, ecomedia, media ecology, Media+Environment on May 9, 2019 | 1 Comment »
This announcement is long past due… It’s for the new, open access, peer-reviewed international journal that I am co-editing with Alenda Chang and Janet Walker, through the University of California Press. It includes a call for submissions for two special issue “streams”: “Disaster Media” and “Mediating Art & Science.” Media+Environment is an open access, online, […]
Offsetting the New York Times
Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged air travel, carbon accounting, carbon offsets, indulgences, New York Times on October 26, 2016 | 2 Comments »
A friend shared a post about a seemingly unbelievable “opportunity” for the world’s ultra-rich — to “circle the globe on an inspiring and informative journey by private jet, created by The New York Times in collaboration with luxury travel pioneers Abercrombie & Kent.” On this 26-day itinerary, you’d be taken “beneath the surface of some […]
Appearances
Posted in Academe, Media ecology, tagged CENHS, ecocinema, Ecologies of the Moving Image, Harman, Latour, religious studies, SCMS on March 9, 2015 | 5 Comments »
My review of Graham Harman’s recent book Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political, has been published online in the journal Global Discourse. It’s part of a book review symposium, which will be accompanied (in the print issue) by the author’s reply to his interlocutors. The journal has been publishing a lot on Latour’s political theory (see here). I especially […]
The semio-ethics of Coke’s polar bear mascots
Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged animals, branding, brands, Coca-cola, environmental communication, mascots, polar bears, WWF on October 16, 2014 | 2 Comments »
A journalist asked me to say something about the use of animal mascots for commercial purposes. In an email, she wrote: “What does a brand owe an animal mascot, especially one at risk? For instance, polar bears face rapid habitat loss, yet Coke has only donated $2 million to the WWF for conservation efforts. There’s also Kellogg’s […]
Apocalypse mashup
Posted in Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged apocalypse, eco-images, global warming on September 18, 2014 | 1 Comment »
This week’s theme in my “Environmental Literature, Arts, & Media” class is apocalyptic rhetoric. (I’m loosely following Greg Garrard’s list of tropes in Ecocriticism, but adding, amplifying, and amending to be more artistically inclusive.) Because it’s a fun topic (and deadly serious, too), I thought I’d post a few of the videos we’ve been watching […]