Altrudi, S., Dunbar-Hester, C. and Miltner, K.M. orcid.org/0000-0001-6964-1023 (2022) “Chinese Elm 1030595 . . . (or can I call you Dale??)”: Communication and representation in mediated encounters with nonhuman others. New Media and Society, 24 (10). pp. 2291-2310. ISSN 1461-7315
Abstract
The last couple of years have seen an uptick of different technological forms presented as mediators of human/nonhuman interaction, and these developments have been accompanied by an increase in scholarly interest. Here, we engage with the human urge to enter into communicative exchanges that implicate “other” entities, but we also wonder what is at stake, analytically and ethically, in these mediated communicative acts. Following an approach informed by work in the environmental humanities as well as science and technology studies and media studies, we explore three sites of (ostensible) encounters between humans and nonhuman others—plants and animals—and argue that while certain technological mediations can facilitate human “noticing” by rendering nonhuman others sense-able, it does not follow that such interventions open up a space where participants can meaningfully respond to each other.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The authors. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in New Media & Society. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
Keywords: | Environmental humanities; interspecies communication; media studies; science and technology studies |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Information School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 11 Nov 2022 09:28 |
Last Modified: | 11 Nov 2022 22:28 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1461444821995470 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:193156 |
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