Benedetta Piantella, Alex Nathanson, Tega Brain, Kayla DesPortes
Infrastructure work and maintenance are forms of care work as they involve the upkeep and repair of systems that sustain communities. We explore a global experiment of digital infrastructure stewardship and collective imagination called Solar Protocol: a network of solar-powered servers distributed around the globe. Through Sam, a dedicated maintenance worker in the Kalinago Territory in Dominica, we examine a journey through renewable energy technologies and community infrastructure in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. The Solar Protocol network was created as a provocation and social invitation into collective stewardship and into rethinking planetary limits and environmental rhythms as creative opportunities rather than constraints. By using the Listening Guide (LG), a qualitative and relational research method focused on uncovering how people navigate human experiences, we explore the emotional aspects, challenges and motivations associated with caring for and with infrastructure. We demonstrate how the LG sheds light on the nuanced and complex emotional landscape of individuals and communities involved in digital stewardship work.
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Review of: Cold Water Oil: Offshore Petroleum Cultures, Fiona Polack and Danine Farquharson (eds) (2021) London and New York: Routledge, 273 pp., ISBN 978-0-36790-392-3, p/bk, $48.95
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Patrick Brodie, Juliet Pinto, A. Pasek, Alix Johnson
In this editorial introduction, we revisit the question: ‘What is environmental media studies?’ This provocation, raised in an exceptional article by founding co-editors Meryl Shriver-Rice and Hunter Vaughan in the journal’s first issue, continues to influence how the journal moves forward. However, under the leadership of a new editorial team, we reflect on the new directions and ongoing challenges presented by the interdisciplinary field of environmental media studies through the contributions of Issue 4.1. Working across a number of approaches, topics and interdisciplinary positions, we offer insights into the transformations of the field demonstrated in the excellent work of our authors.
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Media are conduits for people to obtain information about animal species and may therefore influence how people think about these species. This study advances our understanding of animals (and plants) in the media by analysing a final dataset of 638 films categorized in the genre ‘Creature Features’. Through analysing the biography, film poster and trailer on the IMDb database, it was found that sharks were the most depicted species in creature feature films, with insects and arachnids, dinosaurs and snakes also being frequently featured. There were changes in the types of animal species commonly portrayed in creature feature films across time, with dinosaurs and primates being more frequently depicted in the 1920s–30s and sharks being more frequently depicted in recent decades. This study is the first to investigate which animal/plant species are evident in creature feature films, which is a broader genre incorporating mythology, extant and general unrealistic portrayals of animals. This allows for new understandings regarding the influence the media can have on perceptions of animal and plant species.
{"title":"Sharks, spiders, snakes, oh my: A review of creature feature films","authors":"Brianna Le Busque, C. Litchfield","doi":"10.1386/jem_00096_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00096_1","url":null,"abstract":"Media are conduits for people to obtain information about animal species and may therefore influence how people think about these species. This study advances our understanding of animals (and plants) in the media by analysing a final dataset of 638 films categorized in the genre ‘Creature Features’. Through analysing the biography, film poster and trailer on the IMDb database, it was found that sharks were the most depicted species in creature feature films, with insects and arachnids, dinosaurs and snakes also being frequently featured. There were changes in the types of animal species commonly portrayed in creature feature films across time, with dinosaurs and primates being more frequently depicted in the 1920s–30s and sharks being more frequently depicted in recent decades. This study is the first to investigate which animal/plant species are evident in creature feature films, which is a broader genre incorporating mythology, extant and general unrealistic portrayals of animals. This allows for new understandings regarding the influence the media can have on perceptions of animal and plant species.","PeriodicalId":128274,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Media","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127152792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Climate change is impacting the maintenance and repair of last-mile internet connections. In this case study, I describe how telecommunication workers based in south Louisiana maintain ageing digital infrastructures that require cable pressurization, a method used to keep buried wires dry. This work is becoming more difficult due to stronger and more frequent hurricanes, an effect of climate change that is tied to this region’s history with extractive industries. Additionally, this maintenance work can come at the cost of being able to update these ageing infrastructures. I argue that maintaining infrastructures in this context is to keep artefacts functioning within an unstable landscape. Ensuring that internet services continue against the backdrop of climate change requires shifts in considering how networks are embedded in specific geographies in relational and material ways.
{"title":"Under pressure: Keeping cables dry in south Louisiana","authors":"Jen Liu","doi":"10.1386/jem_00098_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00098_1","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change is impacting the maintenance and repair of last-mile internet connections. In this case study, I describe how telecommunication workers based in south Louisiana maintain ageing digital infrastructures that require cable pressurization, a method used to keep buried wires dry. This work is becoming more difficult due to stronger and more frequent hurricanes, an effect of climate change that is tied to this region’s history with extractive industries. Additionally, this maintenance work can come at the cost of being able to update these ageing infrastructures. I argue that maintaining infrastructures in this context is to keep artefacts functioning within an unstable landscape. Ensuring that internet services continue against the backdrop of climate change requires shifts in considering how networks are embedded in specific geographies in relational and material ways.","PeriodicalId":128274,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Media","volume":"49 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135771345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
While Singapore is not an oil-producing nation, it occupies an important role as one of the largest refinery hubs and the world’s busiest bunkering port for tankers and container ships. However, existing scholarship on petroculture has largely bypassed Singapore in its focus on direct representations of oil centred on upstream producers such as the United States, Canada and countries in the Middle East. This article traces the emergence and eventual disappearance of oil in Singapore’s visual culture through two moving images made separately in the late 1950s and the early 2000s. Comparing L. Krishnan’s film Orang Minyak (), which headlined a series of local films that featured the urban legend of the orang minyak (‘oily man’), with Tan Pin Pin’s documentary video 80km/h () allows us to consider the sudden eruption and eventual disappearance of oil in Singapore’s visual culture, set against the historical developments of Singapore’s oil industry. Of interest here is an attention towards both direct and indirect representations of oil. The article ends with a formal analysis of Tan’s 80km/h, through which I argue for a critical petro-aesthetics particular to Singapore itself, in thinking through its role as an important middleman in the global supply chain of petroleum and petrochemicals.
{"title":"A well-oiled engine: Towards a critical petro-aesthetics of Singapore","authors":"Kenneth Tay","doi":"10.1386/jem_00094_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00094_1","url":null,"abstract":"While Singapore is not an oil-producing nation, it occupies an important role as one of the largest refinery hubs and the world’s busiest bunkering port for tankers and container ships. However, existing scholarship on petroculture has largely bypassed Singapore in its focus on direct representations of oil centred on upstream producers such as the United States, Canada and countries in the Middle East. This article traces the emergence and eventual disappearance of oil in Singapore’s visual culture through two moving images made separately in the late 1950s and the early 2000s. Comparing L. Krishnan’s film Orang Minyak (), which headlined a series of local films that featured the urban legend of the orang minyak (‘oily man’), with Tan Pin Pin’s documentary video 80km/h () allows us to consider the sudden eruption and eventual disappearance of oil in Singapore’s visual culture, set against the historical developments of Singapore’s oil industry. Of interest here is an attention towards both direct and indirect representations of oil. The article ends with a formal analysis of Tan’s 80km/h, through which I argue for a critical petro-aesthetics particular to Singapore itself, in thinking through its role as an important middleman in the global supply chain of petroleum and petrochemicals.","PeriodicalId":128274,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Media","volume":"2020 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115196128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature connectedness could be an important motivator for addressing environmental issues via pro-environmental behaviour. While people can connect with nature by spending time outdoors in natural settings, such places are not always accessible. Mediated portrayals of nature offer a promising alternative for connecting with nature. Media that evoke high levels of vividness and spatial presence may be particularly effective. This study uses an online experiment with a 3 (setting: coral reef vs. forest vs. urban) × 3 (media format: 360-degree image vs. 360-degree video vs. traditional video) between-subject design to examine the effects of media type and setting on vividness, presence, nature connectedness and public and private pro-environmental behaviour intentions. Vividness, presence and nature connectedness mediated the relationship between 360-degree images and intentions to engage in public behaviours. Additionally, scenery type was a more substantial contributor to nature connectedness than media format.
{"title":"Being outdoorsy indoors: Nature connectedness through 360-degree images and video","authors":"Cassandra L. C. Troy, Chris Skurka","doi":"10.1386/jem_00095_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00095_1","url":null,"abstract":"Nature connectedness could be an important motivator for addressing environmental issues via pro-environmental behaviour. While people can connect with nature by spending time outdoors in natural settings, such places are not always accessible. Mediated portrayals of nature offer a promising alternative for connecting with nature. Media that evoke high levels of vividness and spatial presence may be particularly effective. This study uses an online experiment with a 3 (setting: coral reef vs. forest vs. urban) × 3 (media format: 360-degree image vs. 360-degree video vs. traditional video) between-subject design to examine the effects of media type and setting on vividness, presence, nature connectedness and public and private pro-environmental behaviour intentions. Vividness, presence and nature connectedness mediated the relationship between 360-degree images and intentions to engage in public behaviours. Additionally, scenery type was a more substantial contributor to nature connectedness than media format.","PeriodicalId":128274,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Media","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114552279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review of: Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control, Yuriko Furuhata (2022) Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-47801-780-6, p/bk, $26.95
Media staple environment to logistics as technologies that mediate the dynamic between contingency and entropy. Contingency interrupts plans. Entropy introduces disorder. Media organize disruption and disorder as constitutive elements in the production of value enabled by technologies of capture and control. The power of logistical media resides precisely in their capacity to organize. Environmental media describe the space of organization. Logistical media govern space with the calibration of time. This article explores these dynamics as they cut across energy infrastructures, technologies of war and the politics of distribution.
{"title":"Logistical media and environmental media: Energy, war and the politics of distribution","authors":"N. Rossiter, S. Zehle","doi":"10.1386/jem_00097_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00097_1","url":null,"abstract":"Media staple environment to logistics as technologies that mediate the dynamic between contingency and entropy. Contingency interrupts plans. Entropy introduces disorder. Media organize disruption and disorder as constitutive elements in the production of value enabled by technologies of capture and control. The power of logistical media resides precisely in their capacity to organize. Environmental media describe the space of organization. Logistical media govern space with the calibration of time. This article explores these dynamics as they cut across energy infrastructures, technologies of war and the politics of distribution.","PeriodicalId":128274,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Media","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133576420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article explores the potential for climate fiction to function as a powerful medium of climate change communication. After briefly introducing climate fiction (colloquially known as ‘cli-fi’), I draw reflexively on past teaching experiences to argue for this potential in two main ways. First, I demonstrate how fictional climate storytelling can deepen understanding and engagement with climate science by connecting this abstract knowledge to everyday lived realities. Second, I consider how climate fiction opens pedagogically rich ways of exploring complex emotional responses to living in the climate crisis. The creative works discussed in the article each serve to illuminate the power of speculative climate fiction to engage students and wider publics in processes of imagining more sustainable, resilient, climate-friendly and just ways forward.
{"title":"Finding hope, resilience and imagining ways forward through climate fiction","authors":"Matthew Tegelberg","doi":"10.1386/jem_00099_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00099_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the potential for climate fiction to function as a powerful medium of climate change communication. After briefly introducing climate fiction (colloquially known as ‘cli-fi’), I draw reflexively on past teaching experiences to argue for this potential in two main ways. First, I demonstrate how fictional climate storytelling can deepen understanding and engagement with climate science by connecting this abstract knowledge to everyday lived realities. Second, I consider how climate fiction opens pedagogically rich ways of exploring complex emotional responses to living in the climate crisis. The creative works discussed in the article each serve to illuminate the power of speculative climate fiction to engage students and wider publics in processes of imagining more sustainable, resilient, climate-friendly and just ways forward.","PeriodicalId":128274,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Media","volume":"168 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121303760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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