Reading list

Reading List

Please find below articles and books interested in digital ecologies.

• Adams, W. M. (2019) Geographies of conservation II: Technologies, surveillance and conservation by algorithm. Progress in Human Geography, 43(2): 337-350.
• Adams, W. M. (2020) Digital animals. The Philosopher 108(1): 17-21.
• Altrudi, S. (2021) Connecting to nature through tech? The case of the iNaturalist app. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 27(1): 124-141.
• Arts, K., van der Wal, R., and Adams, W.M. (2015) Digital technology and the conservation of nature. Ambio 44: 661-673.
• Ash, J., Kitchin, R. and Leszczynski, A. (2016) Digital turn, digital geographies? Progress in Human Geography, 42(1): 25-43.
• Bakker, K. J. (2022) The Sounds of Life : How Digital Technology is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Bakker, K. and Ritts, M. (2018) Smart Earth: A meta-review and implications for environmental governancefor environmental governance. Global Environmental Change, 52: 201-211.
• Benson, E. (2010) Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife. John Hopkins University Press: Baltimore.
• Benson, E. (2016) Trackable life: Data, sequence, and organism in movement ecology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 57: 137-147.
• Bergman, C. (2005) Inventing a beast with no body: Radio-telemetry, the marginalization of animals, and the simulation of ecology. Worldviews, 9(2): 255-270.
• Berland, J. (2019) Virtual Menageries: Animals as Mediators in Network Cultures. The MIT Press.
• Blue, G. (2016) Public attunement with more-than-human Others: Witnessing the life and death of Bear 71. GeoHumanities, 2(1): 42-57.
• Bradshaw, A. (2023). Digital encounters with microbial ecologies in a polluted urban river. cultural geographies.
• Brower, M. (2021) Exhibiting Digital Animalities. Public.
• Büscher, B. (2016) Nature 2.0: Exploring and theorizing the links between new media and nature conservation. New Media & Society, 18(5) pp. 726–43.
• Calvillo, N (2023) Aeropolis: Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds. Columbia University Press.
• Candea, M. (2010) ‘I fell in love with Carlos the meerkat’: engagement and detachment in human-animal relations. American Ethnologist 37(2): 241-258.
• Castellano, K. (2018) Anthropomorphism in the Anthropocene: Reassembling wildlife management data in Bear 71. Environmental Humanities, 10(1): 171–186.
• Chambers, C. (2007) “Well its remote, I suppose, innit?” The relational politics of bird-watching through the CCTV lens. Scottish Geographical Journal, 123(2): 122-134.
• Chasseray-Peraldi, P., and Malaret, G. (2023). A mineral listening: digital soundscapes of geological time. cultural geographies
• Coghlan, S. and Sparrow, L. (2020) The “digital animal intuition:” the ethics of violence against animals in video games. Ethics and Information Technology.
• Coghlan, S., Webber, S., and Carter, M. (2021) Improving ethical attitudes to animals with digital technologies: the case of apes and zoos. Ethics and Information Technology.
• COVID-19 and Environmental Media. Special issue of Journal of Environmental Media, volume 1, issue 2.
• Crowley Edward J., Silk Matthew J., Crowley Sarah L. (2021). The educational value of virtual ecologies in red dead redemption 2. People and Nature 3(6): 1229-1243
• Davies, G. (2000) ‘Virtual animals in electronic zoos: The changing geographies of animal capture and display’, in C. Philo and C. Wilbert (eds), Animal Spaces, Beastly Places: New Geographies of Human–Animal Relations, Routledge: London, 243-267.
• Drakopulos, L., Silver, J.J., Nost, E., Gray, N., Hawkins, R. (2022) Making global oceans governance in/visible with Smart Earth: The case of Global Fishing Watch. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space.
• Dwyer, A.C. (2021) Cybersecurity’s grammars: A more-than-human geopolitics of computation. Area, OnlineFirst.
• Elwood, S. and Leszczynski, A. (2018) Feminist digital geographies. Gender, Place & Culture, 25(5): 629-644.
• Engelmann, S., Dyer, S., Malcolm, L. and Powers, D. (2022) Open-weather: Speculative-feminist propositions for planetary images in an era of climate crisis. Geoforum.
• Fish, A. (2020) Crash theory: Entrapments of conservation drones and endangered megafauna. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 46(2): 425-451.
• Fisher Jessica C., Yoh Natalie, Kubo Takahiro, Rundle Danielle. (2021). Could nintendo’s animal crossing be a tool for conservation messaging? People and Nature 3(6): 1218–28.
• Fry, T. (2023). Tracking Sonny: localised digital knowledge of an urban fox. cultural geographies.
• Gabrys, J. (2014) Programming environments: Environmentality and citizen sensing in the smart city. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32(1): 30-48.
• Gabrys, J. (2016) Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet. University of Minnesota Press.
• Gabrys, J. (2019) Sensors and sensing practices: Reworking experience across entities, environments and technologies. Science, Technology & Human Values 44(5): 723-736.
• Gabrys, J. (2021) The forest that walks: Digital fieldwork and distributions of Site. Qualitative Inquiry. OnlineFirst.
• Gabrys, J., Westerlaken, M., Urzedo, D. Ritts, M. and Simlai, T. (2022) Reworking the political in digital forests: The cosmopolitics of socio-technical worlds. Progress in Environmental Geography.
• Goodman, M., Littler, J., Brockington, D. and Boykoff, M. (2016) Spectacular environmentalisms: media, knowledge and the framing of ecological politics. Environmental Communication, 10(6): 677-688.
• Gray, J. (2020) ‘The datafication of forests? From the wood wide web to the internet of trees.’ In Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel (eds), Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Hawkins, R. and Silver, J. (2017) From selfie to #sealfie: Nature 2.0 and the digital cultural politics of an internationally contested resource. Geoforum, 79: 114-123.
• He, H. (2023). Planetary rural thinking in digital geographies. Dialogues in Human Geography.
• Hunter, H. & Searle, A. (2024) Postextinction Geographies: Audiovisual Afterlives of the Bucardo and the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 114 (4), 770–791.
• Jarić, I., Correia, R.A., Brook, B.W., Buettel, J.C., Courchamp, F. […], Roll, U. (2020) iEcology: Harnessing large online resources to generate ecological insights. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 35(7): 630-639.
• Jørgensen, F.A. (2014) The armchair traveler’s guide to digital environmental humanities. Environmental Humanities 4(1): 95-112.
• Kamphof, I. (2011) Webcams to save nature: Online space as affective and ethical space. Foundations of Science 16(2-3): 259-274.
• Kamphof, I. (2013) Linking animal and human places: The potential of webcams for species companionship. Animal Studies Journal, 2(1): 82-102.
• Kirkham, G. (2023). Snakes and smartphones: exploring transdisciplinary design collaborations for the governance of snakebite. cultural geographies.
• Kuntsman, A. and Rattle, I. (2019) Towards a paradigmatic shift in sustainability studies: A systematic review of peer reviewed literature and future agenda setting to consider environmental (un)sustainability of digital communication. Environmental Communication 13(5): 567-581.
• Leszczynski, A. (2015) Spatial media/tion. Progress in Human Geography, 39(6): 729-751.
• Lewis Hood, K., & Gabrys, J. (2024). Keeping time with digital technologies: From real-time environments to forest futurisms. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 42(2), 254-274.
• Longdon, J. (2020) Environmental data justice. The Lancet, 4: e510-e511.
• Lorimer, J. (2010) Moving image methodologies for more-than-human geographies. Cultural Geographies, 17(2): 237-258.
• Lunstrum, E. (2017) Feed them to the lions: Conservation violence goes online. Geoforum, 79, 134-143.
• Lupton, D. (2016) Digital companion species and eating data: Implications for theorising digital data–human assemblages. Big Data & Society, 3(1): 1-5.
• Luque-Ayala, A. et al. (2024) Digital natures: New ontologies, new politics? Digital Geography and Society.
• Maalsen, S. (2023) Algorithmic epistemologies and methodologies: Algorithmic harm, algorithmic care and situated algorithmic knowledges. Progress in Human Geography 47 (2), 197–214.
• Millner, N., Newport, B., Sandbrook, C., & Simlai, T. (2024). Between monitoring and surveillance: Geographies of emerging drone technologies in contemporary conservation. Progress in Environmental Geography, 3(1), 17-39.
• Moss, T., Voigt, F., and Becker, S. (2021) Digital urban nature. City. OnlineFirst.
• Mouton, M. and Rock, M. (2021) Governing cities as more-than-human entities. City, OnlineFirst.
• Nelson, I.L. (2017) Interspecies care and aging in a gorilla 2.0 world. Geoforum, 79: 144–152.
• Nelson, I.L., Hawkins, R., and Govia, L. (2022) Feminist digital natures. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. OnlineFirst.
• Nost, E. and Goldstein, J. (2021) A political ecology of data. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. OnlineFirst.
• Prebble, S., McLean, J., and Houston, D. (2021) Smart urban forests: An overview of more-than-human and more-than-real urban forest management in Australian cities. Digital Geography and Society. OnlineFirst.
• Ritts, M. (2021) ‘Saturation as a Logic of Enclosure.’ In Melody Jue and Rafico Ruiz (eds.), Saturation: An Environmental Politics. Duke University Press: 144-158.
• Ritts, M., and Bakker, K. (2021) Conservation acoustics: Animal sounds, audible natures, cheap nature. Geoforum 124: 144-155.
• Ritts, M. and Simpson, M. (2022) Smart Oceans Governance: Reconfiguring capitalist, colonial, and environmental relations. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
• Ritts, M., Simlai, T., and Gabrys, J. (2024) The environmentality of digital acoustic monitoring: Emerging formations of spatial power in forests. Political Geography.
• Rose, G. (2017) Posthuman agency in the digitally mediated city: Exteriorization, individuation, reinvention. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 107(4): 779-793.
• Roth, W.M. and Bowen, G.M. (1999) Digitizing lizards: The topology of ‘vision’ in ecological fieldwork. Social Studies of Science, 29(5): 719-764.
• Rudolfi, M. and Poerting, J. (2020) Infrastructures of Ecological Evidence. Society and Space.
• Rutherford, S. and Bose, P. (2013) Biopower and Play: Bodies, Spaces, and Nature in Digital Games. Aether: The Journal of Media Geography, 12, 1-29.
• Sandbrook, C., Clark, D., Toivonen, T., Simlai, T., O’Donnell, S., Cobbe, J., and Adams, W.M. (2021) Principles for the socially responsible use of conservation monitoring technology and data. Conservation Science and Practice, 3, e374.
• Searle, A., Turnbull, J., and Adams, W.M. (2022) The digital peregrine: a technonatural history of a cosmopolitan raptor. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
• Searle, A., Turnbull, J., Hartman Davies, O., Poerting, J., Chasseray-Peraldi, P., Dodsworth, J., & Anderson-Elliott, H. (2024). Glitches in the technonatural present. Dialogues in Human Geography 14(2): 342-346.
• Søraa, R.A., and Vik, J. (2021) Boundaryless boundary-objects: Digital fencing of the CyborGoat in rural Norway. Journal of Rural Studies 87: 23-31.
• Stinson, J. (2017) Re-creating Wilderness 2.0: Or getting back to work in a virtual nature. Geoforum 79: 174-187.
• Tait, E. and Nelson, I. (2021) Nonscalability and generating digital outer space natures in No Man’s Skyouter space natures in No Man’s Sky. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. OnlineFirst.
• Travis, C., Dixon, D.P., Bergmann, L., Legg, R. and Crampsie, A. (eds.). (2023) Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities. Routledge: London.
• Turnbull, J., Searle, A., and Adams, W. M. (2020) Quarantine encounters with digital animals: More-than-human geographies of lockdown life. Journal of Environmental Media 1(2): 6.1-10.
• Turnbull, J., Searle, A. and Lorimer, J. (2022) Anthropause environmentalisms: Noticing natures with the Self-isolating Bird Club. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
• Turnbull, J., Searle, A,. Hartman Davies, O., Dodsworth, J., Chasseray-Peraldi, P., Von Essen, E. and Anderson-Elliott, H. (2023). Digital ecologies: Materialities, encounters, governance. Progress in Environmental Geography, 2(1-2), 3-32.
• Taffel, S. (2019) Digital Media Ecologies: Entanglements of Content, Code and Hardware. Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Taffel, S. (2022) AirPods and the earth: Digital technologies, planned obsolescence and the Capitalocene. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. OnlineFirst.
• Unnithan Kumar, S., Turnbull, J., Hartman Davies, O., Hodgetts, T. and Cushman, S. (2022) Moving beyond landscape resistance: considerations for the future of connectivity modelling and conservation science. Landscape Ecology.
• Uskakovych, K. (2024). Nesting Ferality. cultural geographies.
• van der Wal, R. and Arts, K. (2015) Digital conservation: An introduction. Ambio 44: 517-521.
• von Essen, E., Turnbull, J., Searle, A., Jørgensen, F.A., Hofmeester, T.R., and van der Wal, R. (2021) Wildlife in the Digital Anthropocene: Examining Human-Animal Relations through Surveillance Technologies. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. OnlineFirst.
• Verma, A., van der Wal, R. and Fischer, A. (2016) Imagining wildlife: New technologies and animal censuses, maps and museums. Geoforum 75: 75–86.
• Virtual Animals. Special issue of Antennae, issue 30, winter 2014.
• Walker, D., Nost, E., Lemelin, A., Lave, R. and Dillon, L. (2018) Practicing environmental data justice: From DataRescue to Data Together. Geo: Geography and Environment, 5(2), e00061.
• Westerlaken, M., Gabrys, J. and Urzedo, D. (2022) Digital Gardening with a Forest Atlas: Designing a Pluralistic and Participatory Open-Data Platform. Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference, 2: 25-32.
• York, N.D.L., Ptitchard, R., Sauls, L.A., Enns, C., and Foster, T. (2023) Justice and ethics in conservation remote sensing: Current discourses and research needs. Biological Conservation 287: 110319.

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