Beyond the money shot; or how framing nature matters? Locating<i>Green</i>at Wildscreen

Sullivan, Sian

doi:10.1080/17524032.2016.1221839

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“…Whilst it is well-documented that many cultures do not understand humans and the natural world to be separate entities [e.g. Descola, 1996;Kopenawa and Albert, 2013], it is still widely assumed that for the majority of populations in the Western world, there is a clear distinction between the two that makes conservation action problematic [Büscher and Igoe, 2013;Duffy, 2015;Sullivan, 2016].…”

Section: Beyond Binary Distinctionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From citizen science to citizen action: analysing the potential for a digital platform to cultivate attachments to nature

Sharma¹,

Greaves²,

Siddharthan³

et al. 2019

JCOM

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Identifying private gardens in the U.K. as key sites of environmental engagement, we look at how a longer-term online citizen science programme facilitated the development of new and personal attachments of nature. These were visible through new or renewed interest in wildlife-friendly gardening practices and attitudinal shifts in a large proportion of its participants. Qualitative and quantitative data, collected via interviews, focus groups, surveys and logging of user behaviours, revealed that cultivating a fascination with species identification was key to both ‘helping nature’ and wider learning, with the programme creating a space where scientific and non-scientific knowledge could co-exist and reinforce one another.

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Section: Beyond Binary Distinctionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From citizen science to citizen action: analysing the potential for a digital platform to cultivate attachments to nature

Sharma¹,

Greaves²,

Siddharthan³

et al. 2019

JCOM

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“…Environmental campaigns have recognized this, and increasingly focus on emotional values to reengage the public (Wu & Lee, 2015). In this context, natural history films have emerged as a platform for reconnecting people to nature, captivating large audiences with entertaining and emotionally charged storylines (Fortner & Lyon, 1985;Sullivan, 2016), but the value of such vicarious connections with nature has been questioned (Ballouard, Brischoux, & Bonnet, 2011; but see Soga, Gaston, Yamaura, Kurisu, & Hanaki, 2016). Moreover, natural history films are often criticized for portraying unrealistic, pristine views of nature (Beck, 2010), despite often featuring endangered species whose survival is time-sensitive (see for example the collapse of Saiga antelope Saiga tatarica populations, witnessed-but not portrayed-by film crews; Kock et al, 2018;Milner-Gulland, Morgan, & Kock, 2016;Nicholls, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Natural history films raise species awareness—A big data approach

Fernández‐Bellon

Kane

2019

CONSERVATION LETTERS

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In urbanized societies that are increasingly disconnected from nature, communicating ecological and species awareness is crucial to revert the global environmental crisis. However, our understanding of the effectiveness of this process is limited. We present a framework for describing how such awareness may be transferred and test it on the popular BBC show Planet Earth 2 by analyzing Twitter and Wikipedia big data activity. Despite lacking explicit conservation themes, this show generated species awareness, stimulating audience engagement for information at magnitudes comparable to those achieved by other conservation‐focused campaigns. Results suggest that natural history films can provide vicarious connections to nature and can generate durable shifts in audience awareness beyond the broadcast of the show—key factors for changing environmental attitudes. More broadly, this study underscores how open‐source big data analysis can inform effective dissemination of ecological awareness and provides a framework for future research for investigating behavioral change.

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“…The ways in which nature–society relations are mediated in movies, on television and through the internet have been shown to mirror common understandings of land/seascapes and non-human beings and to shape how people interact with them (e.g. Barkemeyer et al., 2018; Boykoff, 2011; Büscher, 2013; Collard, 2016; Goodman et al., 2016; Hawkins and Silver, 2017; Silver and Hawkins, 2017; Sullivan, 2016). In this section of our literature review, we take a broad look at nature–society scholarship that theorizes the ways in which nature, nation and gender are mediated, and, often, presented in relation with each other.…”

Section: From Nature–society To Resource Nationalismmentioning

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Gender, nature and nation: Resource nationalism on primary sector reality TV

Clark

Hawkins

Silver

2020

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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A number of media companies in the United States broadcast reality TV series that chronicle lives, conflicts and economic highs and lows in the primary sector of the economy. This is curious from a cultural standpoint because employment in the primary sector has plateaued, and, in many regions, is in active decline. This paper examines primary sector reality TV series about fishing, logging and mining televised to audiences in the United States by broadcast networks Discovery and National Geographic. Using discourse and visual analysis, we deconstruct prominent nature–society representations in a sample of 100 episodes systematically selected from 15 different series. Three points emerge from the data and are generalizable across the series. First, nearly all characters are male, and storylines suggest that successful men are competitive, strong and brave. Second, hegemonic masculinity is made legible in contrast to a feminized nature that is almost always suggested to be acting against male protagonists. Third, US symbolism is common, and Americans are presented as ideally skilled and situated to exploit natural resources within and beyond domestic borders. Overall, the series mediate a highly gendered nature–society relation that weaves together hegemonic masculinity and resource nationalism. We conclude that viewers – many of whom will have little personal experience of primary sector work – are invited to relate with concern for the ‘real-life’ characters and with anxiety for the future of a specific identity and associated set of labour and consumption practices.

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Beyond the money shot; or how framing nature matters? LocatingGreenat Wildscreen

Cited by 10 publications

References 31 publications

From citizen science to citizen action: analysing the potential for a digital platform to cultivate attachments to nature

From citizen science to citizen action: analysing the potential for a digital platform to cultivate attachments to nature

Natural history films raise species awareness—A big data approach

Gender, nature and nation: Resource nationalism on primary sector reality TV

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