Biodiversity data as public environmental media: Citizen science projects, national databases and data visualizations
dc.contributor.author | Whitelaw, Mitchell | |
dc.contributor.author | Smaill, Belinda | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-11T03:59:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-03-01 | |
dc.date.updated | 2021-11-28T07:27:16Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Through a combination of scientific and community activity, our environment is increasingly registered and documented as data. Given the expanding breadth of this digital domain, it is crucial that scholars consider the problems it presents as well as its affirmative potential. This article, arising from collaboration between a practitioner and theorist in digital design and a film and screen scholar with expertise in documentary and environmental studies, critically examines biodiversity data through an ecocritical reading of public-facing databases, citizen science platforms and data visualizations. We examine the Atlas of Living Australia; Canberra Nature Map; the City of Melbourne's Insects; and the experimental visualization Local Kin. Integrating perspectives from screen studies, design and the environmental humanities, including multispecies studies approaches in anthropology, we examine how digital representations reflect the way biodiversity data is produced and structured. Critically analysing design choices ‐ what is shown, and how it is shown ‐ we argue that biodiversity data on-screen provides specific affordances: allowing, encouraging or discouraging certain insights and possibilities that condition our knowledge of and engagement with living things. An interdisciplinary approach allows us to ask new questions about how users might experience multispecies worlds in digital form, and how biodiversity data might convey the complexities of an entangled biosphere, amplifying understanding, connection and attention amongst interested publics. We examine the visual rhetorics of digital biodiversity in order to better understand how these forms operate as environmental media: designed representations of the living world. | en_AU |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en_AU |
dc.identifier.citation | Whitelaw, Mitchell and Smaill, Belinda (2021), ‘Biodiversity data as public environmental media: Citizen science projects, national databases and data visualizations’, Journal of Environmental Media, 2:1, pp. 79–99, doi: https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00027_1 | en_AU |
dc.identifier.issn | 2632-2463 | en_AU |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/262006 | |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | en_AU |
dc.provenance | https://www.intellectbooks.com/open-access..."Contributors to all Intellect journals can deposit their accepted manuscript (post-print) in institutional repositories or on a personal website...This is subject to an embargo period of 12 months." from publisher site (as at 31.3.2022) | |
dc.publisher | Intellect Ltd. | en_AU |
dc.rights | © 2021 Intellect Ltd Article | en_AU |
dc.source | Journal of Environmental Media | en_AU |
dc.subject | biodiversity | en_AU |
dc.subject | data | en_AU |
dc.subject | visualization | en_AU |
dc.subject | multispecies | en_AU |
dc.subject | Australia | en_AU |
dc.subject | citizen science | en_AU |
dc.title | Biodiversity data as public environmental media: Citizen science projects, national databases and data visualizations | en_AU |
dc.type | Journal article | en_AU |
dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2020-09-10 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 1 | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 99 | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 79 | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Whitelaw, Mitchell, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Smaill, Belinda, Monash University | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoremail | u1821432@anu.edu.au | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | Whitelaw, Mitchell, u1821432 | en_AU |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | en_AU |
local.identifier.absfor | 330301 - Data visualisation and computational (incl. parametric and generative) design | en_AU |
local.identifier.absfor | 360505 - Screen media | en_AU |
local.identifier.absseo | 190203 - Environmental education and awareness | en_AU |
local.identifier.ariespublication | a383154xPUB21862 | en_AU |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 2 | en_AU |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1386/jem_00041_1 | en_AU |
local.identifier.essn | 2632-2471 | en_AU |
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | a383154 | en_AU |
local.publisher.url | https://www.intellectbooks.com/ | en_AU |
local.type.status | Accepted Version | en_AU |
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