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Marine Reserve Design [Video] 海岸保护区设计[短片]

Media+Environment Pub Date : 2021-05-19 DOI: 10.1525/001C.22183

D. Steigerwald

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Modeling the Pacific Ocean on the Computer [Video] 用计算机模拟太平洋[视频]

Media+Environment Pub Date : 2021-05-19 DOI: 10.1525/001C.22191

E. Meiburg

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Observing and Modeling the Pacific Ocean [Video] 太平洋的观测和模拟[视频]

Media+Environment Pub Date : 2021-05-19 DOI: 10.1525/001C.22189

L. Washburn

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Message in a Bottle: Operations and Epistemology of an Explorative Drifter [Video] 瓶中的信息:一个探索性漂流者的操作与认识论[视频]

Media+Environment Pub Date : 2021-05-19 DOI: 10.1525/001C.22193

S. Lampoudi, Christina Vagt

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Sonic Pipelines at the Seafloor 海底声波管道

Media+Environment Pub Date : 2021-05-19 DOI: 10.1525/001C.21392

L. Han

{"title":"Sonic Pipelines at the Seafloor","authors":"L. Han","doi":"10.1525/001C.21392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/001C.21392","url":null,"abstract":"How did the offshore oil industry develop the means to image the seafloor with photographic precision? What are the stakes of producing images through processes that simultaneously produce carcasses? This essay addresses these questions by charting the ambivalent history of reflection seismology from the 1940s to the present day. In the postwar era, when offshore drilling was just emerging, companies like Union Oil, Shell Oil, Macco Corporation, and affiliated researchers were key actors in the development of offshore prospecting techniques. From wire sounding technologies like the soundfish to modern airgun surveys, the hunt for energy resources paved the way for high-resolution imaging of the ocean floor, despite devastating ecological casualties. Drawing from sound studies scholarship in addition to interviews and oceanographic records, this essay focuses on how petroleum surveys have affected the material space of their interventions. In particular, I theorize the survey as a distinct framework for knowledge that privileges comprehensive and continuous information feeds. I contend that the repeated bias toward frictionless signal in combination with discourses of energy security has obscured and even justified the harmful ecological impacts of reflection seismology on ocean environments. Ultimately, I argue that rather than starting with the visual abstractions of survey maps and seismic images, attention must be returned to the violent sonic “bangs” of surveying—a recurring event that is inseparable from the nonhuman and environmental agencies, casualties, and affects that co-constitute the media-making process.","PeriodicalId":235953,"journal":{"name":"Media+Environment","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133672388","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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“Pixels May Lose Kelp Canopy”: The Photomosaic as Epistemic Figure for the Satellite Mapping and Modeling of Seaweeds “像素可能会失去海带冠层”:海藻卫星测绘和建模的认知图

Media+Environment Pub Date : 2021-05-19 DOI: 10.1525/001C.21261

Melody Jue

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Etherealization in a Racial Regime of Ownership: Marconi in O‘ahu, circa 1900 种族所有制制度中的以太化:1900年左右奥胡岛的马可尼

Media+Environment Pub Date : 2021-05-19 DOI: 10.1525/001C.23515

T. Morgenstern

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El Niño “The Boy” – Local Stories and Global Satellites in the Pacific Ocean [Video] El Niño“男孩”-太平洋的当地故事与全球卫星[影片]

Media+Environment Pub Date : 2021-05-19 DOI: 10.1525/001C.22184

Sabine Höhler

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Atomic Histories and Elemental Futures across Indigenous Waters 原生水域的原子历史和元素未来

Media+Environment Pub Date : 2021-04-08 DOI: 10.1525/001C.21536

H. Hobart

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Field Notes for Future Petropractices: Refiguring Oil and/as Media 未来石油实践的现场笔记:重新配置石油和/作为媒体

Media+Environment Pub Date : 2021-03-18 DOI: 10.1525/001C.18931

Elia Vargas

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