Current Projects
Interdisciplinary Reception studies
Review of decolonial heritage narratives by community stakeholders and partner organization
Studies of place-based wildlife tourism and ecotourism
Perception studies of the role of charismatic megafauna as conservation condensation symbols
Reception studies of short videos of sea-level rise messaging
Digital Anthropology
Ethics of community-based research and participatory media projects
Decolonial approaches to digital interventions within archiving and other digitization projects
Studies of media affordances and socio-cultural and context-specific uses and meanings of digital technology
Research on developed nation guilt in national cultural products
Media Infrastructures
Research of resource use by the infrastructure of global media industries
Assessing how media infrastructures are tied to political power and human labor management
Studies of signal satellites, undersea fiber-optic cables, and data servers
Studies of environmental racism endemic to toxic material interruptions to urban and rural spaces
Biodiversity and Cultural Heritage
Assessing biodiversity and human/environment relationships across deep time from ancient landscape (archaeological, paleoecological) to contemporary use
Study of local knowledge of bicultural landscapes
Site-specific media installations at archaeological and heritage sites
Human/wildlife entanglements within intergenerational oral histories
Changes in traditional agricultural practices and sustainable foodways
Ethnobotanical studies
Green Production Studies
Studies of green initiatives in Hollywood, national industries, independent practices and incentive programs
Assessment of media management and intra-industry communication strategies
Incorporating environmental values and green practices into the education and training of future filmmakers
In partnership with Earth Angel on a new U.N. initiative for greening film and television sectors globally
Member’s Publications
2021
Starosielski. Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media (forthcoming).
Kaapa & Vaughan eds., Film and Television Production in the Face of Climate Crisis. London: Palgrave MacMillan
Stoddart, Shriver-Rice, A. M. Mercuri. 2021. 'Environmental Approaches to Etruscan Studies: Re-Visiting Negri 1927 Almost One Hundred Years Later' (with S. Stoddart and A.M. Mercuri) in Etruscan Archaeology: Technologies and Methods edited by Maurizio Forté. Oxford University Press.
Lund, Madsen, Shriver-Rice. 2021. ‘JORDNÆR CREATIVE: A Danish case study of green filmmaking and sustainable production,’ in Motion Pictures and Public Value edited by Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli. Wiley Blackwell.
Vaughan. 2021. ‘Media, Biomes, and Environmental Issues’ in Routledge Handbook on Media Geographies edited by Paul Adams and Barney Warf.
Shriver-Rice. 2021. ‘Stories of Scandinavian Guilt and Privilege: Transnational Danish Directors’ in A History of Danish Cinema. Edited by C. Claire Thomson, Isak Thorsen and Pei-Sze Chow. Edinburgh University Press.
Kääpä, Pietari and Hunter Vaughan. 2021. ‘From content to context (and back again): new industrial strategies for environmental sustainability in the media,’ in Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli (eds.) Cinema and the Public Good, New York: Wiley Blackwell.
Araújo, R. J., Shideler, G. S., & Reamer, M. B. (2021). Chief editors in aquatic science and communication are more likely to oversee editorial boards from their own regions. Learned Publishing.
2020
Vaughan. 2020. ‘A Green Intervention in Media Production Culture Studies: Environmental Values, Political Economy, and Mobile Production,’ Environmental Values, March.
Kääpä. 2020. ‘The STEMing of Cinematic China: An Analysis of Resource Politics in Chinese and American Coproductions,’ in Phaedra Pezzulo and Jingfang Liu (eds.) Green Communication and China, New York: Blackwell.
Shriver-Rice, Vaughan. 2020. ‘Digital Heritage and the Anthropocene: Media Use in Site-Specific Archaeological Installations in Lazio, Italy' Journal of Italianist Studies : Special Issue on Ecomedia. Volume 40:2.
2019
Starosielski 2019. ‘Thermal Vision,’ Journal of Visual Culture. Vol 18(2): 147–168.
Macdonald, C. & Wester, J. 2019. ‘Public perceptions of the hybridization of polar (Ursus maritimus) and grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis).’ Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 1-18.
Kääpä 2019. ‘Ecocritical Perspectives on Nordic Cinema From Nature Appreciation to Social Conformism,’ in Cannig, Laura and Lewis, Ingrid (ed.) European Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century: Discourses, Directions and Genres, Palgrave MacMillan.
Shriver-Rice, Vaughan. 2019. 'What is environmental media?' December 2019. Journal of Environmental Media Vol. 1.1 Intellect Press.
Macdonald, C. & Wester, J. 2019. ‘Public perceptions and the social construction of species categorization: A case study of Florida Panthers (Puma concolor coryi).’ (In Submission)
Ali, K. Zain-ul-abdin, K., Li, C., Johns, L., Ali, A. Carcioppolo, N. ‘Viruses Going Viral: Impact of Fear-Arousing Sensatinalist Social Media Messages on User Engagement’ Science Communication, 43(1), 314-338.
Vaughan. 2019. Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: the Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies. Columbia University Press.
Skubel, Shriver-Rice, Maranto. 2019. 'Introducing Relational Values as a Tool for Shark Conservation, Science, and Management' Frontiers in Marine Science. Volume 6
Macdonald, C. & Wester, J. 2019. ‘Public Understanding of Wildlife Tourism: Defining terms, harms, and benefits.’ (In Submission).
Vaughan. 2019. ‘Towards a Natural Screen Philosophy,’ Philosophy and Film: Bridging a Divide, edited by Rawls, Neiva, Gouveia. London: Routledge.
2018
Johns, Jacquet 2018. ‘Doom and glom versus optimism: An assessment of ocean-related U.S. science journalism (2001-2015)’ Global Environmental Change, 50: 142-148.
Kääpä, 2018. Environmental Management of the Media: Policy, Industry, Practice. Routledge.
Vaughan 2018. “Towards a Screen Ecomaterialism: Film and Media Studies Beyond the Human,” in The Screen Theory Handbook, eds. Vaughan and Conley. Anthem Press.
Shriver-Rice. 2018. ‘Danish Privilege and Responsibility in the Work of Susanne Bier,’ in ReFocus: The Work of Susanne Bier. Edited By Missy Molloy, Mimi Nielsen, and Meryl Shriver-Rice. Edinburgh University Press.
Kääpä, Moffat. 2018. ‘Unthinking ethnocentrism: Ecocritical Approaches to Ethnic Diversity in Nordic Screen Media,’ Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, 8:2.
Molloy, Nielsen, Shriver-Rice (Eds) ReFocus: The Work of Susanne Bier. Edinburgh University Press.
2017
Vaughan. 2017. ‘Ecocinema: Media and the Environment,’ in Nicole Richter’s The Moving Image. Cognella.
2016
Starosielski, Walker. 2016. (Eds.) Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment. Routledge.
Wester, J., Timpano, K., Cek, D., & Broad, K. 2016. ‘The Psychology of Recycled Water: Factors Predicting Disgust and Willingness to Use. Water Resources Research.’ 52, 3212–3226.
Vaughan 2016. ‘500,000 Kilowatts of Stardust,’ in Sustainable Media, eds. Nicole Starosielski and Janet Walker. New York: Routledge.
2015
Starosielski. 2015.The Undersea Network. Duke University Press.
Wester, J., Timpano, K., Cek, D., Lieberman, D., Fieldstone, S., & Broad, K. 2015. Psychological and Social Factors Associated with Wastewater Reuse Emotional Discomfort. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 42: 16-23.
Shriver-Rice. 2015. Inclusion in New Danish Cinema: Sexuality and Transnational Belonging. Intellect Press.
Starosielski, Parks. 2015. Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructure. University of Illinois Press.
pre- 2014
Kääpä, 2014. Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinemas: From Nation-building to Ecocosmopolitanism. New York: Bloomsbury.
Kääpä, 2014. (Ed.) Ecocinema Audiences, special issue of Interactions: Studies in Communications and Culture, vol. 3:4.
Kääpä and Gustafsson (Eds.) 2013. Transnational Ecocinemas: Film Culture in an Era of Ecological Transformation, Bristol: Intellect.
Kääpä 2012. ‘The Politics of Viewing Ecocinema in China,’ Interactions, 2:2, 2012, pp. 159-175.