[Commlist] ‘Environmental Media Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic’ CFP for open access supplement of Journal of Environmental Media

*‘Environmental Media Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic’***

*Call for papers for open access supplement of /Journal of Environmental 
Media
/Guest editors: Becky Alexis-Martin, Adi Kuntsman and Liu Xin*

Journal editors: Hunter Vaughan (University of Colorado Boulder) and 
Meryl Shriver-Rice (University of Miami)**

While immediate global efforts are focused on containing the devastating 
spread of Covid-19, important conversations are also emerging regarding 
the immediate and long-term social, political, cultural and 
environmental implications of the current crisis. Among them are two 
widely addressed, but rarely intersecting topics. The first is 
environmental – for example, noting the positive impact of global 
lockdowns on carbon emissions due to reduced flights and motor travel; 
or addressing the future of ecological resilience and climate change 
based on lessons learned during the coronavirus pandemic. The second 
regards the role of digital media – the rise of remote working, 
teleconferencing, online education, and in the immediate tackling of the 
epidemic via contact tracing. Digital media has proven central to 
sustaining the social fabric of everyday life, accentuating the 
importance of digital access at times of restricted movement and 
physical contact, as well as substantially expanding digital surveillance.

While each of the two topics – digital media and the environment – are 
receiving their due media and scholarly attention, they are rarely 
examined together, leaving unchallenged crucial questions regarding the 
relations between digital knowledge and technologies, environmental 
justice and the global pandemic. This special, open access section of 
the /Journal of Environmental Media /aims to facilitate a collection of 
‘rapid response’ reflections on these questions, by inviting short 
(2000–3000 words) contributions. The format is flexible and can include 
reflections on preliminary findings; policy recommendations; commentary; 
theoretical interventions; or auto-ethnographic accounts to consider one 
or several of the questions below

·What are the hidden environmental challenges and damages of the rapid 
digitization of healthcare (in and beyond the pandemic monitoring), 
education, work and everyday life? How do they relate to global 
inequalities (both digital and environmental)?

·What psychological reactions and changes in digital behaviour (such as 
use of carbon capture apps) have manifested in reaction to quarantine life?

·What techno-scientific environmental myths and fake news (5G as culprit 
of coronavirus; dolphins in Venice etc) have proliferated through social 
media since the start of the pandemic?

·How do we construct virtual environments in an age of a global 
lockdown? What new modes of care for nature and for each other can they 
facilitate? What are the relations between ‘virtual green spaces’ and 
mental health during the pandemic?

·How can we rethink the relations between death, digital technologies 
and the environment?

All contributions will be peer reviewed and prepared for the fast-track 
publication with the support of the guest editors. All accepted pieces 
will be published in the special supplement to /JEM/’s 1:2 issue.  For 
consideration, email 200-word abstracts to Adi Kuntsman 
((a.kuntsman /at/ mmu.ac.uk)) by *30 April*. If selected, contributors must 
submit their full pieces by 5 June.

https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/47350/1/JEM_CfP_april_20.pdf 
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