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Inaugural Media + Environment Published, Co-edited by Alum Alenda Chang

11 Feb, 2020

Inaugural Media + Environment Published, Co-edited by Alum Alenda Chang

Alenda Chang, alongside University of Vermont's Adrian Ivakhiv and UC Santa Barbara's Janet Walker, developed, launched, and co-edited the inaugural journal of Media+Environment. This peer-reviewed journal is open-access and online, centering on transnational and interdisciplinary ecomedia research!

According to the Editors' Introduction:

We nominated and paired these titular terms—Media+Environment—for heuristic purposes and not because they are a priori separate or all-inclusive. [...] The two realms may be distinguishable in many ways, but they are also intertwined and mutually transformative. Media are of interest precisely because they do transform: they enable, facilitate, and alternately foreclose divergent forms of communication, agency, and alteration to different players in the fields they bring together. [...] To study the "state(s) of" media+environment, then, means to study what is being made of this high-stakes stew of concepts, relations, and social and physical bodies.

Learn more about the journal here.