In Media Res is calling for guest curators on the theme of the representation of environmental issues in the media. The deadline (alas) is March 11. See the call here. H/t to Ecomedia Studies.
Posts Tagged ‘ecomedia’
Environmental media: call for curators
Posted in Media ecology, tagged ecomedia, environmental communication on March 7, 2013 | 1 Comment »
polar bears for green blogs
Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged ecomedia on November 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This blog was added to the Directory of Best Green Blogs earlier today. To honor that I thought I would re-post a link to one of my favorite climate change related videos: the plastic bag polar bears emerging from the subway vent and melting back into them (i.e., the Environmental Defense Fund NYC subway ad […]
climate change supermodeling?
Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged cognition, ecomedia, environmental communication on October 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdz555JBIwY&hl=en&fs=1& Also published at Indications. Having just written a piece for Environmental Communication about the promises and pitfalls of cognitive science-based approaches to communicating about issues like climate change, I can’t help commenting on this video and blog post that arrived this morning on my blog reader from identity campaigning, re-posted from Cognitive Policy Works. […]
Ken Burns’ parks and nature’s nation
Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged documentaries, ecomedia, ecopolitics, environmental communication, national parks, pantheism on October 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Before Ken Burns’ 6-part, 12-hour series on the national parks was aired, a perceptive article by the LA Times’ Scott Timberg warned that it might be greeted by “sharp knives.” Ten years in the making, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, finally came to our television screens last week, and so far no sharp knives […]
eco-arts & ‘experimental geography’ round-up
Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged eco-art, ecomedia, geography, landscape, performance on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The eco-arts blogosphere has kept simmering through the early summer. Greenmuseum.blog, connected to the excellent online environmental resource and exhibition space Green Museum, has taken on a new look. The blog had recently covered the Earth Matters on Stage EcoDrama Symposium, held at the University of Oregon. Mike Lawler’s EcoTheatre blog also provided coverage of […]
cinematic ecologies
Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged Agamben, ecocriticism, ecomedia, film, Heidegger on July 11, 2009 | 7 Comments »
As ecocriticism expands and deepens in scope (of subject matter & media examined), extent (internationally), and diversity (in approaches, connections with other schools of thought, etc.), its interactions with non-literary fields such as cinema studies, theatre/performance studies, and musicology (as I posted about recently) are starting to develop in healthy ways. The ASLE conference had […]
earth songs: Michael Jackson’s cultural ecologies
Posted in Eco-culture, Music & soundscape, tagged ecocriticism, ecology of culture, ecomedia, music on June 30, 2009 | 13 Comments »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8muMo0fw_M&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 The death of Michael Jackson has prompted eco-bloggers to take another look at Jackson’s 1995 “Earth Song“, which some consider the most popular environmentally themed song ever produced. The song remains Jackson’s biggest seller in the U.K, having sold over a million copies there — more than either “Thriller” or “Billie Jean” — but […]
Lakoff’s environmental frames vs. Connolly’s resonance machines
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged affect, Connolly, ecomedia, economy, ecopolitics, ecotheory, framing, Lakoff, neuropolitics on May 20, 2009 | 6 Comments »
In Why Environmental Understanding, or “Framing,” Matters, published today on the Huffington Post (and on AlterNet), liberal framing guru George Lakoff provides a useful critique of a forthcoming EcoAmerica report on the framing of environmental and climate change issues. While his conclusions are perceptive and make the article a valuable read — I’ll get to […]
Story of scary Stuff
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, Visual culture, tagged ecomedia, ecopolitics, environmental studies, Malthus, Marx, political ecology on May 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvU_vhopKKc&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 Environmental pied piper Annie Leonard’s 20-minute teaching video The Story of Stuff got five minutes of frantic Fox News treatment a few days ago — which means it’s making an impact out there in the wilds of America. New York Times Education writer Leslie Kaufman, writing about it on Sunday, noted that six million […]
Earth breathing
Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged ecomedia, visuality on May 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not quite sure what to make of this real-time simulation of the Earth’s CO2 emissions and birth and death rates (by country)… But I find myself mesmerized, in particular, by the soundtrack and the way it adds rhythm, along with a sort of creepy (-crawly) beauty, to the map. It is, of course, a […]
artist environmental videos
Posted in Eco-culture, tagged eco-art, ecomedia, visual culture on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gemma Lloyd on RSA’s Arts & Ecology blog shares a nice collection of ten artist videos in response to the environment. The others — mostly “classics” by Smithson, Beuys, Turrell, et al. — can be seen here.
Obama as the “green FDR” in the age of Swine Flu
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged ecomedia, ecopolitics on April 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
WorldChanging shares Joe Romm’s “The Green FDR: Obama’s First 100 Days Make – and May Remake – History,” which compiles a nice account from Climate Progress of the good things the Obama administration has done on the environmental front. According to Romm, “three game-changing accomplishments stand out:” “1. Green Stimulus: Progressives, Obama keep promise to […]