Book launch: Digital Ecologies

Event details
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Tuesday 6 May 2025 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Description
draws together leading social science and humanities scholars to examine how digital media are reshaping the futures of conservation, environmentalism, and ecological politics. The book offers an overview of the emerging field of interdisciplinary digital ecologies research by mapping key debates and issues in the field, with original empirical chapters exploring how livestreams, sensors, mobile technologies, social media platforms, and software are reconfiguring life in profound ways. The collection traverses contexts ranging from animal exercise apps, to surveillance systems on the high seas, and is organised around the themes of encounters, governance, and assemblages. Digital ecologies also includes an agenda-setting intervention by the book's editors, and three closing chapter-length provocations by leading scholars in digital geographies, the environmental humanities, and media theory that set out trajectories for future research.
Coinciding with the launch of the book, Drs Giraud, Searle, and Turnbull will introduce their work before an interdisciplinary panel of scholars from the University of ºù«Ӱҵ offer responses.
Niall Doherty is a Lecturer in Data, AI and Society, University of ºù«Ӱҵ
Eva Haifa Giraud is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Society, University of ºù«Ӱҵ
is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Leeds.
is a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham.
is a Postdoctoral Research at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.

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