An On-line Narrative of Colorado Wilderness: Self-in-“Cybernetic Space”

Champ, Joseph G.; Williams, Daniel; Lundy, Catherine M.

doi:10.1080/17524032.2012.753099

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“…In previous research, social media is often seen as a place to get data about how people think about social issues (see Matthews, 2015). Yet, communication on social media is not merely or necessarily a reflection of offline practices, but rather a meaning-making experience in itself (Champ et al, 2013;Marres & Moats, 2015). There is a need for qualitative insight in the dynamics between bloggers, readers, commenters, and followers, and in particular, how this influences on-blog communication about sustainability.…”

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“…Second, what does on-blog communication about sustainability look like? Developing a better understanding of on-blog communication processes is relevant as the discussions among the different participants of the blog, including the blogger, shape representations of sustainability (Champ, Williams, & Lundy, 2013;Haider, 2016). Focus in this paper is on environmental sustainability, which we understand as "meeting the resource and services needs of current and future generations without compromising the health of the ecosystems that provide them" (Morelli, 2011).…”

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Blogging for Sustainability: The Intermediary Role of Personal Green Blogs in Promoting Sustainability

Joosse

Brydges

2018

Environmental Communication

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The rise of social media radically broadens the sources and platforms used for environmental communication. Especially personal green blogs are worthy of study as they are spaces of everyday cultural politics through which people make sense of sustainability issues, and because they entail a radical break from conventional media in terms of legitimacy, form, and content of environmental communication processes. This paper studies the representation of sustainability on personal green blogs, and the communication processes through which these representations are constructed. It does so through a qualitative study of Swedish-language blogs. We study three blogs in-depth: a living experiment blog on sustainable food practices; a lifestyle blog centered around green family life; and a blog about consuming green beauty products. The analysis shows that all three blogs translate the complex landscape of sustainability to individual everyday practices. Yet, what these sustainability practices entail differs considerably between the blogs, ranging from apolitical and doable lifestyle choices to an onset to radical redefining of consumption. Also, the communication processes on the blogs differ in quality and quantity. The paper uses these insights to reflect on the debates about how environmental communication is shaped by blogging and social media practices.

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Blogging for Sustainability: The Intermediary Role of Personal Green Blogs in Promoting Sustainability

Joosse

Brydges

2018

Environmental Communication

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“…Oral‐history studies are another important method for collecting narratives (Steiner and Williams , Brooks and Williams , Dvorak and Brooks ). Champ et al () analyzed trip reports in the form of blogs posted on Internet websites by visitors to wilderness areas in the United States. They found that this method of capturing narratives provided personal statements of self and relationships with protected places.…”

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“…Researchers can use social network analysis to provide insights into patterns of trust and communication between stakeholders (Reed ). Managers and researchers can solicit public feedback through websites, social media, and blogs in which visitors and other stakeholders write stories, both positive and negative, about their experiences and interactions with managers at protected areas (e.g., Williams et al , Champ et al ).…”

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Conservation can occur anywhere regardless of scale, political jurisdiction, or landownership. We present a framework to help managers at protected areas practice conservation at the scale of relationships. We focus on relationships between stakeholders and protected areas and between managers and other stakeholders. We provide a synthesis of key natural resources literature and present a case example to support our premise and recommendations. The purpose is 4-fold: 1) discuss challenges and threats to conservation and protected areas; 2) outline a relationship-scale approach to address conservation threats; 3) describe the tools and techniques that can be used to implement this approach; and 4) present a case example from rural Alaska, USA, to illustrate relationship-scale conservation. Our case example illustrates how aspects of this approach to conservation were applied to address a wildlife population decline. Tools needed to implement relationship-scale conservation include 1) collecting and documenting narratives of place; 2) measuring and monitoring trust and commitment; and 3) identifying and mitigating threats. We recommend that planners and managers, working with their research partners, redefine and refocus their goals and objectives to include these practices. Doing so will enable them to gain substantial applied knowledge about their stakeholders and foster and maintain place relationships as desired outcomes of conservation. The ultimate outcome is a better prognosis for long-term global survival of protected areas and biodiversity. Published 2014. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.

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“…However, the ways in which nature is framed in everyday discourse have received scant attention. Champ, Williams and Lundy (2013) suggested the analysis of on-line communication, in their case blogs, to capture narratives about people's relationship to nature and wilderness. In this connection, we would argue that social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube must be regarded as particularly relevant objects for empirical research.…”

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Hunting the Beast on YouTube

Mörner

Olausson

2017

Nordicom Review

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Humans' perceived relationship to nature and non-human lifeforms is fundamental for sustainable development; different framings of nature -as commodity, as threat, as sacred etc. -imply different responses to future challenges. The body of research on nature representations in various symbolic contexts is growing, but the ways in which nature is framed by people in the everyday has received scant attention. This paper aims to contribute to our understanding of the framing of nature by studying how wild-boar hunting is depicted on YouTube. The qualitative frame analysis identified three interrelated frames depicting hunting as battle, as consumption, and as privilege, all of which constitute and are constituted by the underlying notion of human as superior to nature. It is suggested that these hegemonic nature frames suppress more constructive ways of framing the human-nature relationship, but also that the identification of such potential counter-hegemonic frames enables their discursive manifestation.

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An On-line Narrative of Colorado Wilderness: Self-in-“Cybernetic Space”

Cited by 16 publications

References 19 publications

Blogging for Sustainability: The Intermediary Role of Personal Green Blogs in Promoting Sustainability

Blogging for Sustainability: The Intermediary Role of Personal Green Blogs in Promoting Sustainability

Relationship‐scale conservation

Hunting the Beast on YouTube

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