18,377 Special Issue of P&N published ‐ Nature on screen: The implications of visual media for human–nature relationship

Happy to share the TOC of this new special issue that just came out (in open access). It has one article I contributed to (about a documentary on Kiruna, the city that moves) …

With apologies for cross-posting and (only partial) self-promotion

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New special issue

People and Nature Volume 3, Issue 6
Special Issue ‐ Nature on screen: The implications of visual media for human–nature relationships
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/25758314/2021/3/6

Guest Editorial
The implications of digital visual media for human–nature relationships
Matthew Silk, Ricardo Correia, Diogo Veríssimo, Audrey Verma, Sarah L. Crowley
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pan3.10284

Wildlife films and filmmaking

Assessing the environmental impacts of wildlife television programmes
John Aitchison, Rowan Aitchison, Fredi Devas
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pan3.10251

Performing authenticity: The making-of documentary in wildlife film’s blue-chip renaissance
Eleanor Louson
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pan3.10281

Soap operas will not wash for wildlife
Keith Somerville, Amy Dickman, Paul J. Johnson, Adam G. Hart
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pan3.10202

Nature films: analysis and impact

Conflicting and entangled human–nature relationships: A
discursive-material analysis of the documentary film Kiruna – A Brand New World
Nico Carpentier, Vaia Doudaki, Anna Rozsypal Pajerová
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pan3.10233

Nature documentaries as catalysts for change: Mapping out the ‘Blackfish
Effect’
Laure Boissat, Laura Thomas-Walters, Diogo Veríssimo
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pan3.10221

The full story: Understanding how films affect environmental change through the lens of narrative persuasion
Christopher Michael McCormack, Jennifer K. Martin, Kathryn J. H. Williams
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pan3.10259

Digital games

Stepping into the Wildeverse: Evaluating the impact of augmented reality mobile gaming on pro-conservation behaviours
Matilda Eve Dunn, Gautam Shah, Diogo Veríssimo
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pan3.10273

Could Nintendo’s Animal Crossing be a tool for conservation messaging?
Jessica C. Fisher, Natalie Yoh, Takahiro Kubo, Danielle Rundle
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pan3.10240

The educational value of virtual ecologies in Red Dead Redemption 2
Edward J. Crowley, Matthew J. Silk, Sarah L. Crowley
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pan3.10242

Visual social media

The Instagrammable outdoors – Investigating the sharing of nature experiences through visual social media
Irma Arts, Anke Fischer, Dominic Duckett, René van der Wal
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pan3.10239

Building better conservation media for primates and people: A case study of orangutan rescue and rehabilitation YouTube videos
Cathryn A. Freund, Erin G. Heaning, Imani R. Mulrain, Jesse B. McCann, Andrea L. DiGiorgio
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pan3.10268

Visual media for education and communication

Reflections from the team: Co-creating visual media about ecological
processes for young people
Merryn J. Thomas, Ioanna Daphne Giannoulatou, Ethan Kocak, Wes Tank, Ryan Sarnowski, Peter E. Jones, Stephanie R. Januchowski-Hartley
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pan3.10241

Fostering ocean empathy through future scenarios
Jessica Blythe, Julia Baird, Nathan Bennett, Gillian Dale, Kirsty L. Nash, Gary Pickering, Colette C. C. Wabnitz
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pan3.10253

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