1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Mobile Technology, Social Media and the Outdoors
This is the first book to explore the numerous ways in which mobile technologies and social media are influencing our outdoor experiences.
Across the fields of outdoor education, outdoor recreation and leisure, and nature-based tourism, the book considers how practices within each of those domains are being influenced by dramatically shifting interactions between technology, humans, the natural world, and wider society. Drawing on cutting-edge research by leading scholars from around the world and exploring key concepts and theory as well as developments in professional practice, the book explains how digital technology and media are no longer separate from typical human and social activity. Instead, the broader field of outdoor studies can be viewed as a world of intertwined socio-technical assemblages which need to be understood in more diverse ways. Presenting new work on subjects including networked spaces in residential outdoor education; digital competencies for outdoor educators; the use of social media in climbing communities; and the impact of digital technologies on experiences of adventure tourism, the book offers a full-spectrum view of this profound shift in our engagement with the world around us.
This is essential reading for anybody with an interest in outdoor studies, outdoor education, adventure education, leisure studies, tourism, environmental studies, environmental education, or science, technology and society studies.
1. Introduction: Where Did We Start and Where Will This Book Take Us?
Patrick T. Maher and Simon Kennedy Beames
Part I: Outdoor Education
2. Mobile Technology and Social Media in the Assemblage of Outdoor Pursuits: A Theoretical Stance on Complexity and Uncertainty
Jack Reed and Simon Kennedy Beames
3. A Postdigital Lens on Outdoor Research
Heather Prince
4. Outdoor Education, Technology, and the Anthropocene
Paul Stonehouse
5. Managing Digital Technology in Outdoor Education
David S. Hills
6. Digital Competence in Outdoor Education
Imre van Kraalingen
7. Technological Affordances in Understanding Biodiversity: Life, Place, and Time
Orla Kelly, Benjamin Mallon and Tom McCloughlin
8. Assembling Mobile Technology and Outdoor Education Practice: Affordances, Pitfalls and Pedagogical Pathways
Jonathan Lynch and Scott Jukes
9. Youth, Identity, and Social Media: The Promise of Outdoor Education as a Context for Identity Development
Michael Froehly and Robert P. Lubeznik-Warner
10. Smartwatches, Bodies, and Landscapes: Experiencing the Mountains as Cyborgs
Georgios Katsogridakis and Millie Chaston
11. The Digital Canoe Trip: Do We Return to Our Old Teaching Styles After COVID-19?
Jørgen Weidemann Eriksen
12. Bridging Outdoor Education, Digital Technology and Well-being, Through Pedagogical and Psychological Perspectives
Alessandro Bortolotti and Francesca Agostini
Part II: Outdoor Recreation
13. A Case for Using Mobile Technology to Facilitate Inclusion in the Outdoors for Those Who Live with Disabilities and/or Chronic Illness: Crossing the Digital Crevasse
TA Loeffler
14. The Power and Peril of Smartphones and Social Media in Avalanche Terrain
Jerry Isaak
15. Social Media and Research in a Climbing Community: Gleaning Insights
Jennifer Wigglesworth
16. The Art of Dotwatching in Ultra-Distance Cycling: When a Human Becomes a Dot
Catherine Dunn and Jack Reed
17. Identity Transformation Through Nature Activity and Social Media in Norway: Becoming an Outdoors Person
Tom Bratrud
18. Use of Digital Technologies for Hiking: A Quantitative Study of Four Spanish Protected Areas
Jorge Terrades Daroqui, Alonso Sánchez-Rodríguez and Pablo Vidal-González
19. The Promises and Perils of Danish Nature App Developers
Gertrud Lynge Esbensen and Theresa Schilhab
20. Trail and Mountain Running Vlogging: Dizziness, Disorder and Joy
Ciarán Ryan
21. Communication and Cultural Significance in Two Danish Outdoor Facebook Groups: "Check Out My Campfire, See My Big Catch – I Am an Outdoor Person!”
Søren Andkjær and Signe Højbjerre Larsen
22. Navigating Outdoor Activities in Polluted Air: Embodiment of Particulate Matter and Mobile Applications
Eun Jung
Part III: Nature-based/Adventure Tourism
23. Using Social Media to Examine Ambassadorship in Tourism
Alix Varnajot
24. Virtual Meeting Spaces and Sustainable Arctic Communities: All Who Wander Are Not Lost
Brooks A. Kaiser, Chris Horbel, Patrick T. Maher and Susan Seubert
25. The Absence of Everydayness in Social Media Images from Hiking Trips: Sharing the Epic
Elina Hutton and Outi Rantala
26. Digital Tools and New Technologies: Opportunities or Threats to Participatory Sport Events?
Aage Radmann, Daniel Svensson and Susanna Hedenborg
27. Big Data in Adventure Travel
Sahil Sharma
28. Reflections on the Impact of the Digital Shift in Nature-Based Adventure Tourism: Connected Disconnections in the Arctic
Axel Rosenberg
Part IV: Overlappers and Outliers
29. Equity, Social Media and the Outdoors
Simon Kennedy Beames and Mary Louise Adams
30. Trekking and Digital Technologies: Nudging Outdoor Habits in New Directions?
Suzanne Lundvall, Gunn Engelsrud and Gustav Tøstesen
31. Technology Creep and the Beneficial Burden: Cautionary Tales for Outdoor Educators
Morten Asfeldt, Bob Henderson, Mike Brown and Brendon Munge
32. Understanding Relations Between People, Nature and the Digital: Why and How to Conduct Non-digital-centric Research?
Tuva Beyer Broch
33. Hyperreality, Social Media, and Increasing Opportunities for Young People to Engage with Nature
Mark Leather
34. Outdoor Play Mediated Through Pokémon: Facing the Snorlax
Jason Wragg and Richard Whall
35. Physical Activity and Health Monitoring with Wearable Technologies: A New Fitness Trend with Concerns for Reliable Output and Data Security
Awadhesh Kumar Shirotriya
36. Using Cellphones for Visualizing the Social and Environmental Relations of Community Gardens: “Keeping My Eyes Everywhere”
Mitchell McLarnon
37. Western and Indigenous Ideas of Sustainability, the Tragedy of the Commons, and Mobile Technologies: Sustaining our Inner Environments
Chris North, Aaron Hāpuku and Phillip Borrell
38. Mobile Technology, Social Media, and the Outdoors: Stepping into the Future with Excitement and Apprehension
Simon Kennedy Beames and Patrick T. Maher
Biography
Simon Kennedy Beames is Professor of Friluftsliv at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Norway. He has been teaching outdoors for over 30 years, predominantly in Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe. Of his books, four have been published with Routledge: Learning Outside the Classroom, Adventurous Learning, Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory, and Outdoor Learning across the Curriculum.
Patrick T. Maher is Professor of Physical and Health Education at Nipissing University, Canada. His research blends outdoor and environmental education, sustainable nature-based tourism, and narratives from the Polar Regions. Pat is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, as well as the lead of the UArctic Thematic Network on Northern Tourism.
