1st Edition

Digital Environments

Edited By Sidney Dobrin Copyright 2017
108 Pages
by Routledge

108 Pages
by Routledge

110 Pages
by Routledge

With the title serving as an umbrella term to distinguish simulated places from real places, Digital Environments signifies a shift in how we think about interactions with places and spaces, both real and simulated. The very idea of digital environments , though, complicates such distinctions, asking simultaneously (and perhaps reductively) as to how agents engage networks, and if there can be... Read more

Introduction Sidney I. Dobrin

1. Rhetoric and recapture: theorising digital game ecologies through EA’s The Sims series Melissa Bianchi

2. Ecocomposition: writing ecologies in digital games Kyle Matthew Bohunicky

3. Rub trees, crittercams, and GIS: the wired wilderness of Leanne Allison and Jeremy Mendes’ Bear 71 Sarah Jaquette Ray

4. Reading environment(s): digital humanities meets ecocriticism Stephanie Posthumus and Stéfan Sinclair

5. Signals of nature, prestidigital ecology Andrew Hageman

6. The sustainability of our digital environments: the language of the upgrade path and e-waste Caroline Stone Short

Biography

Sidney I. Dobrin is Professor of English at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. He is the founding director/editor of TRACE Innovation Initiative. He is the author and editor of numerous books about ecology, writing, media, and technology.