About

Digital Ecologies is an interdisciplinary and international research group fostering critical conversations at the interface of more-than-human and digital geographies, political ecology, digital humanities, and media studies to understand the mediation of more-than-human worlds.

Our current members include:

Jonathon Turnbull, Adam Searle, Oscar Hartman Davies, Jenny Dodsworth, Pauline Chasseray-Peraldi, Henry Anderson-Elliott, Karolina Uskakovych, Noemi Duroux, Caitlin Hafferty,

At the core of our research is a commitment to empirically exploring what we term ‘digital entanglement’, a condition in which digital technologies have become constitutive to modes of living in more-than-human worlds. It is commonly assumed that digital technologies disengage humans from nature, yet myriad examples point to the opposite: that digital technologies, in certain contexts, can foster convivial human-nonhuman relations. To date, however, there has been only minimal empirical research into the effects emerging digital technologies have in terms of human-nature disengagement and connection. As such, we highlight how digital human-nonhuman relations are always situated, fraught, and complex; inaugurating a range of social and environmental harms, but also positive relations.

Our past research and events have been kindly supported by the Vital Geographies research group at the Department of Geography at Cambridge, King’s College (University of Cambridge), the University of Bonn, the German Research Foundation (project number 446600467), the European Research Council (grant number 949577), the Olso School of Environmental Humanities, and the Technological Life research cluster at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.

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Any questions, drop us an email at team@digicologies.com.