{"id":6451,"date":"2013-01-18T15:13:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T20:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=6451"},"modified":"2013-01-19T00:11:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T05:11:08","slug":"introducing-e2mc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2013\/01\/18\/introducing-e2mc-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing e\u00b2mc"},"content":{"rendered":"

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e2<\/sub>mc<\/strong>, short for “evolving ecological media cultures,” has gone online.<\/a><\/p>\n

e2<\/sub>mc<\/strong>\u00a0begins as the class blog for the University of Vermont course \u201cMedia Ecologies and Cultural Politics.\u201d Its long-term goal is to become the online face of the UVM Ecomedia Studies Lab, which is still in development.<\/p>\n

The blog is open to anyone interested in participating, provided that you share its goal of open and respectful discussion of issues related to the intersecting themes of media, ecology, culture, and politics.<\/p>\n

The blog’s design is still in progress; at some point we intend to unveil a more interesting and interactive format. But for now, it looks like this.<\/a><\/p>\n

e2<\/sub>mc<\/strong>‘s Statement of Intent reads as follows:<\/p>\n

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\"\"We live in a different world than did previous generations of humanity.\u00a0 Billions of humans can access a vast ocean of information at their fingertips. Digital media have helped construct a sphere of thickly networked, hypermediate, and interactive communication links that span all levels of human society around the globe.<\/p>\n

How do these new media environments affect and interact with the social and biophysical environments that preceded them, and that continue to undergird them?<\/p>\n

The concept of \u201cmedia ecology\u201d is not new. From the medium theories of Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong, and Neil Postman to the media ecologies of Felix Guattari, Matthew Fuller, Jussi Parikka, and others; from the \u201cmental environmentalism\u201d of Adbusters<\/em> and other culture jammers to the \u201ccultural environmentalism\u201d of public domain defenders like James Boyle and Lawrence Lessig \u2014 understandings of media as ecologies<\/em> and of ecology as mediated<\/em> converge in many ways today.<\/p>\n

We are beyond the old debates between the caffeinated cyberoptimism of the digerati and the anti-technology pessimism of the Heideggers, Elluls, and Zerzans. But that doesn\u2019t mean we aren\u2019t precariously poised over the abyss. Ecological calamity stares us in the face, and we need some<\/em> kind of new \u201cnatural contract\u201d with the planet, as philosopher Michel Serres has called for. How can digital media help us get there?<\/p>\n

e2<\/sub>mc<\/strong> seeks to explore the relationships between media and ecologies: material, social, and perceptual ecologies within which mediations play an increasingly powerful, complex, and transformative role. It is devoted to the idea of \u201cevolving ecological media culture\u201d: an evolution of a media culture that is cognizant of its multiple ecological contours and connections.<\/p>\n

e2<\/sub>mc<\/strong>\u00a0begins as an experiment, a class exercise for ENVS 204 \u201cMedia Ecologies and Cultural Politics,\u201d a senior undergraduate class at the University of Vermont. But it will not limit itself to traditional pedagogical constraints. Where it leads we will see. We invite any and all to share in the adventure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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e2mc, short for “evolving ecological media cultures,” has gone online. e2mc\u00a0begins as the class blog for the University of Vermont course \u201cMedia Ecologies and Cultural Politics.\u201d Its long-term goal is to become the online face of the UVM Ecomedia Studies Lab, which is still in development. 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