Ways of Knowing the Digital Anthropocene (Sensing and Seeing)

Abstract

This session engages with ways of sensing and seeing the Digital Anthropocene. The papers examine how various digital technologies mediate environmental issues, from air quality in Copenhagen to militarized archaeological landscapes in Afghanistan. With a focus on knowing through sensing and seeing, some of the papers analyze the practices through which putatively digital and natural environments enfold and produce one another, while others take a more conceptual approach to thinking through these overlaps and interfaces.

Chair

• James Maguire, IT University Copenhagen

Discussant

• Jennifer Gabrys, University of Cambridge

Individual Presentations

• Engaging Environmental Data Justice to Conduct Civically Valid Air Monitoring with Oil&Gas Fenceline Communities - Lourdes Annette Vera, Northeastern University

• Making Sense of Urban Air - Rasmus Tyge Haarløv, IT University Copenhagen

• Sensing Landscape as a Media Object: A Case Study in Kandahar, Afghanistan - Saadia Mirza, The University Of Chicago

Session Organizers

• James Maguire, IT University Copenhagen

• Astrid Andersen, Aalborg University

• Rachel Douglas Jones, IT University Copenhagen