Environing media and cultural techniques: From the history of agriculture to AI-driven smart farming

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-26 DOI:10.1177/13678779221144762

Adam Wickberg

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Abstract

This article presents the new theoretical concept of environing media, which is developed to offer critical insight into how processes of mediation affect how we perceive of, manage and use the environment. Building on the insight that the environment has been in a continuous slow process of change that is now escalating due to human impacts, the article sketches a history of how environmental change and mediation are intertwined. Taking the history of agriculture as a case for the theoretical development, it shows how the current digitization of farming and implementation of AI systems in precision agriculture is the last of a long series in which environmental mediation come to play a crucial role in the forging of human–Earth relations. The article thereby shows the complex interplay between knowing and changing the environment as media technologies produce new epistemologies that in turn produce new interventions.

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环境媒体和文化技术:从农业历史到人工智能驱动的智慧农业

本文提出了环境媒体的新理论概念，该概念旨在为中介过程如何影响我们如何感知、管理和使用环境提供关键见解。环境一直处于一个持续缓慢的变化过程中，由于人类的影响，这种变化现在正在升级。基于这一见解，本文概述了环境变化和调解如何交织在一起的历史。以农业的历史作为理论发展的案例，它显示了当前农业的数字化和人工智能系统在精准农业中的实施是环境调解在人类与地球关系的锻造中发挥关键作用的长系列中的最后一个。因此，这篇文章展示了了解和改变环境之间复杂的相互作用，因为媒体技术产生了新的认识论，而认识论又产生了新的干预措施。

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International Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

CiteScore

4.20

自引率

9.50%

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期刊介绍： International Journal of Cultural Studies is committed to rethinking cultural practices, processes, texts and infrastructures beyond traditional national frameworks and regional biases. The journal publishes theoretical, empirical and historical analyses that interrogate what culture means, and what culture does, across global and local scales of power and action, diverse technologies and forms of mediation, and multiple dimensions of performance, experience and identity. Dedicated to theoretical and methodological innovation in cultural research, the journal is multidisciplinary in outlook, publishing relevant contributions that integrate approaches from the social sciences, humanities, information sciences and more. International Journal of Cultural Studies publishes original research articles. The journal gives preference to papers that extend existing theory or generate new theory through interpretive engagement with empirical cases. Papers based on single country case-studies should clearly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses for an international readership. The journal does not publish close readings of single texts; but it does consider critical, contextualised readings that similarly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses to the field. International Journal of Cultural Studies regularly publishes special issues on urgent questions in the field as well as on specific regions, industries and practices.