Students examine the interactions of public institutions, communication infrastructure, & community media with the natural environment. Students consider how the environment and its industrialization has been depicted in the 20th/21st century, reflecting ongoing negotiations between industry, government, and individuals. Considering how our relationship with the environment has been built through communications technologies and the professional and amateur communicators who use them, through film, broadcast, print & internet, students examine ways the environment shapes and is shaped by the experience of communication and explore technical and cultural interventions of communication media in the environment from microwave towers and transoceanic cables to environmentalist broadcasting initiatives and the public relations campaigns of natural resource industries, through theoretical frameworks such as actor network theory and traditional environmental knowledge.
Students examine the interactions of public institutions, communication infrastructure, & community media with the natural environment. Students consider how the environment and its industrialization has been depicted in the 20th/21st century, reflecting ongoing negotiations between industry, government, and individuals. Considering how our relationship with the environment has been built through communications technologies and the professional and amateur communicators who use them, through film, broadcast, print & internet, students examine ways the environment shapes and is shaped by the experience of communication and explore technical and cultural interventions of communication media in the environment from microwave towers and transoceanic cables to environmentalist broadcasting initiatives and the public relations campaigns of natural resource industries, through theoretical frameworks such as actor network theory and traditional environmental knowledge.
