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View article: Media Ecologies of Plant Invasion
Media Ecologies of Plant Invasion Open
In popular conservation discourse, Rhododendron ponticum is portrayed as an alien invader let loose on the British countryside by misguided gardeners. In Scotland, eradication campaigns tend to be favored over more pragmatic approaches to …
View article: Photogenic Urban Landscapes: Towards an Intermedial Framework for Landscape Criticism in the Age of Social Media
Photogenic Urban Landscapes: Towards an Intermedial Framework for Landscape Criticism in the Age of Social Media Open
Drawing on cultural geography, visual cultural studies and theories of media ecology, this essay lays out a framework for collaboration between media scholars, architects and critics, positioning photographic social media such as Instagram…
View article: Photographic social media, designed landscapes and urban, place-based visibilities: in search of friction
Photographic social media, designed landscapes and urban, place-based visibilities: in search of friction Open
Beginning from the double premise that, particularly in the city, designed landscapes function as a socially and culturally powerful form of visual media, and that they do so in interaction with other visual media forms, this paper seeks t…