Environmental Communication and the Wild

Image, Industry, and Technology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the representation, exploitation, and commodification of primitive and wild natural areas in contemporary media and technology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9781666954647
• ISBN-10: 1666954640
• Artikelnr.: 74003277

Autorenporträt

Philip D. Duncan is Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Eureka College. Derek Moscato is Professor of Journalism at Western Washington University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Techno Wilds
Chapter 1: On Conserving Cyberspace: The Metaphorical Wild and Digital
Networks
Christopher Lee Adamczyk
Chapter 2: Visualizing the Future of AR Environmental Communication
Kailan Sindelar
Chapter 3: Nature as Vanishing Wilderness: Mobile Communication
Technologies and Colonial Epistemologies
Stephen B. Crofts Wiley
Part II: Performative Wilds
Chapter 4: Environment as its Own Movie Director: Anti-Representationalism
as More-Than-Human Cinema
Hugo Picado de Almeida and Adalberto Fernandes
Chapter 5: "We Shall Remain Men": Masculinity, Nature, and Environmentalism
in YETI Presents Films
Brandon Robert Green
Chapter 6: Born in China and the International Political Economy of
Disneynature
Phillip D. Duncan, Janet Wasko, and Zak Roman
Part III: Mediated Wilds
Chapter 7: Wilderness, Constructed: The Dystopian Imaginaries of Lori Nix
and Kathleen Gerber
Kathleen M. Ryan and David Staton
Chapter 8: From Sacred Lands to Social Media: Indigenous Sovereignty
Digitized
Nii Mahliaire
Chapter 9: Transition in Translation: Haikyo, The Wild, and the Mediation
of Material Decay on Instagram
Evan R. Jones
Chapter 10: Framing Wildlife through National Geographic: Animal Logic in
the Anthropocene
Minos-Athanasios Karyotakis
Part IV: Experiential Wilds
Chapter 11: Driving Discourses of Ecotopia: The Wild and the Winding Road
of #VanLife
Derek Moscato
Chapter 12: The Pennsylvania Wilds and the Rhetorical Construction of
Wilderness
Casey R. Schmitt
Chapter 13: Traces of Extraction: Finding and Forgetting Environmental
Destruction in "Wild and Wonderful" West Virginia
Ryan McCullough
Chapter 14: Losing Raymond: Digital Rescue Technologies, Social Media, and
The Wild
JV Fuqua
About the Contributors