Introduction

Book review

“…Since I started teaching this subject, there has been an explosion of research and scholarship on media and the environment (Corbett, 2006;Hackett et al, 2017;Maxwell et al, 2015;Parham, 2016;Parks and Starosielski, 2015;Rauch, 2018;Rust et al, 2013Rust et al, , 2016Walker and Starosielski, 2016). Emerging from this new scholarship is the concept of ecomedia, which conflates ecology and media to recognize that media are first and foremost materially embedded in and extracted from the environment in the form of cables, satellites, electromagnetic energy, server farms, energy consumption, mineral resources and so on; and second, that media circulate and educate us about the environment and how to engage politically.…”