Information technology and the optimisation of experience – The role of mobile devices and social media in human-nature interactions

Arts, Irma; Fischer, Anke; Duckett, Dominic; Wal, René van der

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.03.009

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“…Here, wild animals become assimilated in metrification (“you observed 10 bird species today!”), competition (“top collector of the month”), and gamification (“spot the badger”). We note that these digital interspecies encounters are arguably not so much about public-wildlife relations, as about self-enhancement and self-monitoring for users (Arts et al, 2021).…”

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Wildlife in the Digital Anthropocene: Examining human-animal relations through surveillance technologies

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Turnbull

Searle

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Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Digital surveillance technologies enable a range of publics to observe the private lives of wild animals. Publics can now encounter wildlife from their smartphones, home computers, and other digital devices. These technologies generate public-wildlife relations that produce digital intimacy, but also summon wildlife into relations of care, commodification, and control. Via three case studies, this paper examines the biopolitical implications of such technologically mediated human-animal relations, which are becoming increasingly common and complex in the Digital Anthropocene. Each of our case studies involves a different biopolitical rationale deployed by a scientific-managerial regime: (1) clampdown (wild boar); (2) care (golden eagle); and (3) control (moose). Each of these modalities of biopower, however, is entangled with the other, inaugurating complex relations between publics, scientists, and wildlife. We show how digital technologies can predetermine certain representations of wildlife by encouraging particular gazes, which can have negative repercussions for public-wildlife relations in both digital and offline spaces. However, there remains work to be done to understand the positive public-wildlife relations inaugurated by digital mediation. Here, departing from much extant literature on digital human-animal relations, we highlight some of these positive potentials, notably: voice, immediacy, and agency.

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Wildlife in the Digital Anthropocene: Examining human-animal relations through surveillance technologies

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Searle

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Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…On the other hand, perceptions of mobile-based learning media cannot be separated from the increase in digital literacy. First, ease of operation affects basic digital literacy skills [6,28]. Through easy operation, students can construct knowledge about digital technology used in learning.…”

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“…The process to improve critical thinking skills is established from the presence of a problem. According to Facione, six primary critical thinking skills are involved in the critical thinking process, including interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, explanation, and self-regulation [6]. Critical thinking is also the skill of using ICT to make judgments and choices based on information about the resources obtained and communicating reflectively with sufficient evidence to express ideas [58].…”

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Building Critical Thinking Skills Through a New Design Mobile-Based Interactive Learning Media Knowledge Framework

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Dirgatama

2021

Int. J. Interact. Mob. Technol.

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Education is expected to be a solution to issues in human resource development. A number of initiatives have been made to overcome educational problems ranging from improving the curriculum, developing and increasing the quality of teachers, developing student abilities, and other efforts related to improving the quality of education. Based on the preliminary observation, students’ critical thinking skills were considered low and a confirmatory study related to building critical thinking skills is necessary. This study analyzed critical thinking skills that are built based on perceptions of mobile media, self-directed learning, and digital literacy. The research method used was a quantitative approach by using a questionnaire instrument.. Data analysis included analyses of prerequisite tests including validity and reliability tests. The data were analyzed using the structural equation model (SEM) analysis. The results showed that 1) there was a positive and significant effect on the variable of perceptions on online learning media on self-directed learning and digital literacy, 2) there was a positive and significant effect on the variable of self-directed learning on critical thinking skills 3) there was a positive and significant effect on the variable of digital literacy on critical thinking skills 4) the variable of the perceptions on mobile-based learning media had a positive and significant effect on critical thinking skills through the mediation of self-directed learning and digital literacy.

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“…Since these constructed concepts inform society's real relations to the environment (Barry, 1999), this massively popular way of engaging with nature could enable environmental harms by minimizing their presence in the collective imaginary (Arts et. al., 2021).…”

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Enhancing green criminological critique of consumerism using psychoanalytic concepts

Kornel

2022

Academic Journal of Criminology X Journal Universitaire De Criminologie

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It has been suggested that green criminology could be enriched by a combined critique of economic neoliberalism and consumption-driven social life. This article articulates that critique. It centers two seldom-considered forms of contemporary consumption: the consumption of content and the consumption of experiences. Drawing from political economy, green criminology, and the social harms perspective, the argument is made that economic neoliberalism and consumption-driven social life intersect in ways that significantly change how nature is socially constructed and directly cause real damage to it. This position is advanced by considering how the psychoanalytic concepts of interpassivity and fetishistic disavowal encapsulate emerging forms of environmentally harmful consumer behavior. The conclusion proposes future research projects to empirically assess the significance of these concepts in larger society using big data methods.

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Information technology and the optimisation of experience – The role of mobile devices and social media in human-nature interactions

Cited by 34 publications

References 30 publications

Wildlife in the Digital Anthropocene: Examining human-animal relations through surveillance technologies

Wildlife in the Digital Anthropocene: Examining human-animal relations through surveillance technologies

Building Critical Thinking Skills Through a New Design Mobile-Based Interactive Learning Media Knowledge Framework

Enhancing green criminological critique of consumerism using psychoanalytic concepts

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