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A Field Guide to Oil in Santa Barbara: Pedagogy and Practice for Environmental Media Studies 圣巴巴拉石油实地指南:环境媒体研究的教学法与实践

Media+Environment Pub Date : 2022-08-03 DOI: 10.1525/001c.36325

Emily Roehl, S. Gerson

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Animal Oil, Animal Blood: Energy, Metabolism, and Protecting the Seal Hunt in the North American Arctic as an Act of Colonial Resistance 动物油、动物血:能量、新陈代谢和保护北美北极地区的海豹狩猎作为一种殖民抵抗行为

Media+Environment Pub Date : 2022-08-03 DOI: 10.1525/001c.35471

Sage Freeburg

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Magic and Haunting: Oil Media at Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo 魔力与幽灵:委内瑞拉马拉开波湖的石油媒体

Media+Environment Pub Date : 2022-08-03 DOI: 10.1525/001c.36323

M. Zazzarino

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Reading California’s Power Grid: A Metonymic Methodology 解读加州电网:一种转喻方法

Media+Environment Pub Date : 2022-08-03 DOI: 10.1525/001c.35472

S. Gerson

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Exceeding Evidence: Photography Theory and Global Climate Model Visualizations 超越证据:摄影理论和全球气候模式可视化

Media+Environment Pub Date : 2021-10-12 DOI: 10.1525/001c.28273

T. Corballis

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Book Review: Environmental Management of the Media. Pietari Kääpä. London and New York: Routledge/Earthscan, 2018. ISBN 978-1-138-64982-8 书评:媒体的环境管理。Pietari Kaapa。伦敦和纽约:Routledge/Earthscan, 2018。ISBN 978-1-138-64982-8

Media+Environment Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI: 10.1525/001c.27364

Stephen Rust

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Book Review: Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games. Alenda Y. Chang. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. ISBN 145296226X 书评:《玩自然:电子游戏中的生态》。阿兰达·y·张。明尼阿波利斯:明尼苏达大学出版社，2019。ISBN 145296226 x

Media+Environment Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI: 10.1525/001c.27368

Başak Ağın

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Book Review: A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. Kathryn Yusoff. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. ISBN 9781517907532 书评:10亿个黑人人类世还是没有。凯瑟琳Yusoff。明尼阿波利斯:明尼苏达大学出版社，2018。ISBN 9781517907532

Media+Environment Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI: 10.1525/001c.27370

A. López

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The Blued Trees Symphony as Transdisciplinary Mediation for Environmental Policy 蓝树交响曲作为环境政策的跨学科调解

Media+Environment Pub Date : 2021-07-15 DOI: 10.1525/001C.25256

Aviva Rahmani

{"title":"The Blued Trees Symphony as Transdisciplinary Mediation for Environmental Policy","authors":"Aviva Rahmani","doi":"10.1525/001C.25256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/001C.25256","url":null,"abstract":"As the devastating impacts of anthropocentric behaviors have emerged in the Anthropocene, the specter of globalized “ecocide” has also emerged, requiring creative policy solutions. The *Blued Trees* project was an experiment in modeling how art might forestall ecocide by legally redefining public (economic) good to reconcile with common (benefit to a community) good. This continental-scale work of interdisciplinary art was copyrighted in 2015, requiring courts to recognize an emergent overlap between copyright ownership, eminent domain law, and new forms of art. My intention was to create a transdisciplinary, art-based model for sustainable relationships with other species and across demographics, which could be scaled in the court system for policy implications. My premises were that transdisciplinary thinking—work that dissolves disciplinary boundaries—can best preserve habitat integrity in these complex, uncertain times, and that laws are the building blocks of policy. *The Blued Trees Symphony* was conceived as sonified biogeographic sculpture in five movements based on the eighteenth-century sonata form, with the musical structure narrating a contest between Earth rights and accountability for ecocide. The legal theory was litigated in a mock trial produced with the fellowship program A Blade of Grass in 2018. The work, which brings together art, music, and performance with law, ecological science, and dynamic systems theory, continues as a work in progress in that some of its elements, such as trees and ecosystems, the score, and the vital need to stop ecocide, remain alive and very much in play today.","PeriodicalId":235953,"journal":{"name":"Media+Environment","volume":"305 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131481303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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What Climate Models can tell us about Pacific Climate Variability [Video] 气候模型可以告诉我们太平洋气候的变化[视频]

Media+Environment Pub Date : 2021-05-19 DOI: 10.1525/001C.22185

S. Stevenson

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