Digital Ecologies: Mediated Encounters, Governance, and Assemblages in More-Than-Human Worlds

Digital ecologies draws together leading social science and humanities scholars to examine how digital media are reshaping the futures of conservation, environmentalism, and ecological politics. The book offers an overview of the emerging field of interdisciplinary digital ecologies research by mapping key debates and issues in the field, with original empirical chapters exploring how livestreams, sensors, mobile technologies, social media platforms, and software are reconfiguring life in profound ways. The collection traverses contexts ranging from animal exercise apps, to surveillance systems on the high seas, and is organised around the themes of encounters, governance, and assemblages. Digital ecologies also includes an agenda-setting intervention by the book’s editors, and three closing chapter-length provocations by leading scholars in digital geographies, the environmental humanities, and media theory that set out trajectories for future research.

Jonathon Turnbull is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery at the University of Oxford.

Adam Searle is a University Research Fellow at the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham.

Henry Anderson-Elliott is an independent scholar, formerly based in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford.

Eva Haifa Giraud is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Society at the University of Sheffield.