The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies gathers leading work by critical scholars in this burgeoning field. Redressing the lack of environmental perspectives in the study of media, ecomedia studies asserts that media are in and about the environment, and environments are socially and materially mediated.
The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies gives form to this new area of study and brings together diverse scholarly contributions to explore and give definition to the field. The Handbook highlights five critical areas of ecomedia scholarship: ecomedia theory, ecomateriality, political ecology, ecocultures, and eco-affects. Within these areas, authors navigate a range of different topics including infrastructures, supply and manufacturing chains, energy, e-waste, labor, ecofeminism, African and Indigenous ecomedia, environmental justice, environmental media governance, ecopolitical satire, and digital ecologies. The result is a holistic volume that provides an in-depth and comprehensive overview of the current state of the field, as well as future developments.
This volume will be an essential resource for students, educators, and scholars of media studies, cultural studies, film, environmental communication, political ecology, science and technology studies, and the environmental humanities.
About the Author: Antonio López has a research focus on bridging ecojustice with media education. He is a founding theorist and architect of ecomedia literacy. He created the website, ecomedialiteracy.org, for provide resources for students and educators. He monographs are Ecomedia Literacy: Integrating Ecology into Media Education (2021); Greening Media Education: Bridging Media Literacy with Green Cultural Citizenship (2014); The Media Ecosystem: What Ecology Can Teach Us About Responsible Media Practice (2012); and Mediacology: A Multicultural Approach to Media Literacy in the 21st Century (2008). Currently he is Professor of Communications and Media Studies at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy.
Adrian Ivakhiv is a Professor of Environmental Thought and Culture, and Steven Rubenstein Professor of Environment and Natural Resources, at the University of Vermont. His books include Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature (2013), Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times (2018), and the forthcoming The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds. He is a research fellow of the Cinepoetics Centre for Advanced Film Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, co-edits Media+Environment journal, and blogs at Immanence: Ecoculture, Geophilosophy, MediaPolitics.
Stephen Rust teaches Cinema Studies and Writing at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University. He is co-editor of Ecocinema Theory and Practice (2013), Ecomedia: Key Issues (2016), and Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2 (2023) and a founding advisory board member of the journals Media + Environment and Journal of Environmental Media.
Miriam Tola is Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her work explores the intersections between gender, race, species, and the cultural politics of the environmental crisis. She is the co-editor of the volume Ecologie della cura (Orthotes, 2021). Her articles have appeared in journals including South Atlantic Quaterly, Feminist Review, Environmental Humanities and Feminist Studies. She is the co-editor of Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities.
Alenda Y. Chang is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her book, Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games, develops environmentally informed frameworks for understanding and designing digital games. She is a founding co-editor of the UC Press open-access journal, Media+Environment, and co-directs Wireframe, a studio that fosters collaborative theory and creative media practice invested in global social and environmental justice.
Kiu-wai Chu is Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities and Chinese Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is also Luce East Asia Fellow 2022-23 at the National Humanities Center, USA. He is currently Executive Councillor of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE-US), and Living Lexicon co-editor of Environmental Humanities. His research focuses include ecocriticism, human-animal studies, and contemporary film and art in Chinese and global Asian contexts. His work has appeared in Transnational Ecocinema; Ecomedia: Key Issues; Chinese Environmental Humanities; Journal of Chinese Cinemas; Asian Cinema; photographies; Screen; and elsewhere.
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