CAHSS Faculty Books and Book Chapters
Ecoplay: The Rhetorics of Games about Nature
Book Title
Mediating Nature: The Role of Technology in Ecological Literacy
Document Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
9780367025182
Publication Date
11-19-2019
Editors
Sidney I. Dobrin, Sean Morey
Keywords
communication, environmental literacy, environmental sciences, games, language, rhetoric, technology
Description
Mediating Nature considers how technology acts as a mediating device in the construction and circulation of images that inform how we see and know nature. Scholarship in environmental communication has focused almost exclusively on verbal rather than visual rhetoric, and this book engages ecocritical and ecocompositional inquiry to shift focus onto the making of images.
Contributors to this dynamic collection focus their efforts on the intersections of digital media and environmental/ecological thinking. Part of the book’s larger argument is that analysis of mediations of nature must develop more critical tools of analysis toward the very mediating technologies that produce such media. That is, to truly understand mediations of nature, one needs to understand the creation and production of those mediations, right down to the algorithms, circuit boards, and power sources that drive mediating technologies.
Ultimately, Mediating Nature contends that ecological literacy and environmental politics are inseparable from digital literacies and visual rhetorics. The book will be of interest to scholars and students working in the fields of Ecocriticism, Ecocomposition, Media Ecology, Visual Rehtoric, and Digital Literacy Studies.
Publisher
Routledge
City
Abingdon, Oxford
First Page
15
Last Page
29
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Social and Behavioral Sciences
NSUWorks Citation
Bianchi, M. (2019). Ecoplay: The Rhetorics of Games about Nature. Mediating Nature: The Role of Technology in Ecological Literacy, 15-29. Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_facbooks/164