Media+Environment is an open-access, online, peer-reviewed journal of transnational and interdisciplinary ecomedia research edited by Alenda Chang (Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara), Adrian Ivakhiv (Environmental Studies, University of Vermont) and Janet Walker (Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara). Stephen Borunda is the journal’s Coordinating Editor. The journal has just published its inaugural thematic “stream,” on the States of Media+Environment.
“We figured the best way to launch the journal would be to provide a survey of provocative pieces from figures known in the field (and representing different places within it, both geographically speaking and theoretically),” notes co-Editor-in-Chief Adrian Ivakhiv. “‘Media+Environment’ is, after all, an interdisciplinary and somewhat nascent field, one that is emerging at the intersection of some very vibrant and ‘hot’ topic areas.”
From the Editors’ Introduction to the inaugural stream: “Media and the environment, media and environments, media and environment… Each of these terms presupposes something a little different. And one could add the terms media environment—often an industrial or a marketing concept; mediated environment—the technologizing of a place such as the public library or the deep sea; and environmental media—a pairing used to denote both humanistic explorations of environmental themes and issues in movies, television programs, games, and so on, and, in scientific usage, categories of material such as air, water, and earth. Exemplifying the latter usage, a US Environmental Protection Agency (2018) webpage employs the heading ‘Contaminated Media at Superfund Sites’ to list—as media—mine lands, sediments, groundwater, and soil.” Read more…
From the inaugural stream, States of Media+Environment
States of Media+Environment: Editors’ Introduction
Alenda Chang, Adrian Ivakhiv, Janet Walker
Sensing a Planet in Crisis
Jennifer Gabrys
The Elements of Media Studies
Nicole Starosielski
Of Dragons and Geoengineering: Rethinking Elemental Media
Yuriko Furuhata
Pollyanna and the Grim Reaper
Toby Miller
Mediated Environment across Oceans and Countries
Sheldon Lu, Zhen Zhang
Mapuche Cosmovision and the Cinematic Voyage: An Interview with Filmmaker Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez (English Version)
Stephen N. Borunda
Cosmovisión mapuche y el viaje cinematográfico: Una entrevista con el cineasta Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez (versión en Español)
Stephen N. Borunda
States of Environmentalist Media
Dale Hudson, Patricia R. Zimmermann
Ecocritique
Sean Cubitt
Founders and Sponsors
Media+Environment is published by the University of California Press, and founded in partnership with the Carsey-Wolf Center and the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The Editors-in-Chief are grateful for support from our sponsors, including:
Carsey-Wolf Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (Director: Professor Patrice Petro)
Department of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Division of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
EcoCultureLab, University of Vermont, USA (Coordinator: Professor Adrian Ivakhiv)
Environmental Humanities Initiative, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (Director: Ken Hiltner)
Global Media Technologies & Cultures Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (Director: Professor Lisa Parks)
Media and Environment Research Program, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (Program Leader: Associate Professor Belinda Smaill)
Media+Environment is an open-access, online, peer-reviewed journal of transnational and interdisciplinary ecomedia research. The journal seeks to foster dialogue within a fast-growing global community of researchers and creators working to understand and address the myriad ways that media and environments affect, inhabit, and constitute one another. Founded on the premise that media and environment is a crucial conjunction for our time, the journal thus encourages both traditional and multimodal forms of scholarship.
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