Routledge Handbook of Mobile Technology, Social Media and the Outdoors

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 Thomas 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. Becoming an Outdoors Person: Identity Transformation through Nature Activity and Social Media in Norway

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 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 Borell

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 taught outdoor education for more than 30 years, predominantly in Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe. He has published four books 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 the 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.