Environmental Media Flashcards
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Match: Charles Patterson
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Animal Holocaust
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Match: Naomi Klein
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Climate Change
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Match: Cronon
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Wild
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Match: Gunster
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SUV
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Match: Brulle and Norgaard
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Cultural Trauma
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Match: Maxwell and Miller
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Ewaste
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Match: Carruth
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Cloud micropolitics
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Match: Amoore
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Cloud geographies
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Match: Davidson
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Contamination and trauma
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Match:Wilson
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Petrosexual
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Match: Helmrich
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Cinematic waves
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Match:McLeod
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Water metaphors
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Match: Blue
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Branding beef
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Match: Lima
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Agricultural subsides
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Match: Roosth
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Superhumanity
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Match: Mukherjee
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Radiation
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Naomi Klein argues…
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Just because people say they are aware of environmental disaster doesn’t mean they are doing anything to change it
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3 major concepts from Cronon and the trouble with wilderness
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- Sublime
- Frontier
- Rugged Individualism
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Term for when one is out in the wilderness and experiences an intense emotional state of awe
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the sublime
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A place where colonists could conquer the land where civilization was not found before - place to reinvent ones self
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frontier
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the practice or advocacy of individualism in social and economic relations, emphasizing resourcefulness and self-direction
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rugged individualism
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3 messages from Into the Wild
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- Idealized nature
- Greater meaning to life
- Quitting materialism
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In ‘Wild’ the woman recreates herself by what act?
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Washing away her sins with the purity that nature provides
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Unforgiving nature was seen in which wilderness clip?
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Alone in the Wild
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According to Gunster, when consumers buy SUVs, they are buying
an ideal version of their lifestyle
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Gunster says SUV ads _____ and _____ the natural frontier
Romanticize and glorify
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Cloud 1, according to Louise Amoore, is concerned with...
the identification and spatial location of data centres and where the cloud materializes
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Amoore's 3 components of the cloud
1. Infrastructure as a service
2. Platform as a service
3. Applications layer
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3 characteristics of correlative cloud reasoning
1. Condensing traces
2. Discovering patterns
3. Archiving the future
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The biggest environmental impact of cloud computing
Constant air conditioning is extremely energy taxing
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Term for the effect of geography on politics
geopolitics
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Geopolitical perspective on cloud computing
cloud computing is not accessible to everyone
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What is ICITE?
a cloud computing contract with amazon web services rpoviding a new intelligence and security data infrastructure for many security related departments in the US gov't
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2 reasons for the ecological blindspot in cloud computing according to Allison Carruth
1. The widespreadness of the cloud makes it difficult to assume a critical perspective
2. The cloud is visualized as socially transformative
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Who speaks about branding the cloud as sublime and magical?
Carruth
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Growing the cloud based from positive environmental principles is called
cyber environmentalism
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Who spoke about ewaste?
Maxwell and Miller
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Who spoke about liberal and conservative responses to environmental issues?
Maxwell and miller
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Our self mythologizing of brand upgrades is called
fetish for innovation
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3 ecological threats that tech advancements have
1. Accumulation of ewaste deposits
2. Increase in uninformative content
3. Unemployment generating growth or replacing people with AI and robots
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3 focuses of the digital R-evolution
1. Ecological damages and risk
2. Information generated functions and their future implications
3. Disease of Infoflation and unemployment generating growth
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Another word for Maxwell and Miller's infoflation is
fake news, or quantity does not equal quality
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Who speaks about social inertia and cultural trauma?
Brulle and Norgaard
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The process that halts our society's ability to have an active desire in addressing issues at hand
social inertia
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3 levels of social inertia
1. Individual beliefs and behaviors
2. Institutional practices
3. Societal politics and economics
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The theory that society is not fed enough information to realize we need to act
Information deficit hypothesis
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Uittenbroek's ideas on organizational routines suggests:
Society is structures to make it very difficult for member of society to change the course of the world
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Example of institutional regime
having to drive gas fueled cars to work
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3 political approaches to climate change according to Maxwell and Miller
1. Reactionary
2. Reformist
3. Radical
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3 parts of Bourdieu's social order
1. Field
2. Habitus
3. Doxa
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Part of social order that undergoes destabilization and conflict during cultural trauma, resulting in new organizations
field
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What is habitus?
individual responses to cultural trauma, including passivity, ritualism or rebellion
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What is doxa?
Cultural hegemony being disrupted during cultural trauma
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term for a cycle of how farms improve their efficiency in regard to technologt
technological treadmill
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The program issued by Hitler for the systematic elimination of the mentally disabled, emotionally disturbed and physically infirm
Operation T4
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Central idea from Blue's "Branding Beef"
Government funding to the Canadian beef industry has enabled more pronounced branding
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the exchange of real time information, advice and opinions between experts and people facing threats to their health, economic or social well being. The goal is to enable people at risk to take informed decisions to protect themselves.
Risk Communication
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According to Blue, BSE did not create the same response in Canada as it did in the UK. Why?
1. Proactive risk management strategies of the federal and provincial governments
2. National media coverage framing BSE as more of a trade concern
3. The public’s love of beef and desire to support farming
4. Advertising and branding initiative by the Beef industry
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The sense of order and continuity offered by familiar settings
Ontological security
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The eilimation of confidence such as what tomorrow will be, that our knowledge and beliefs are valid and serve a purpose
ontological insecurity
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Social scientific of living with contamination
the experience of sudden, dangerous, overwhelming events that render victims powerless.
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Reluctant activism in the contamination of alberta communities is aligned with what concept?
victim blaming
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Water bringing a powerful and varied response emotionally, culturally and sensually is called what from MacLeod?
The Material Imagination
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Term Concerned with the experience of film viewers, but differs from illusionism because it rejects the idea that film images cause film viewers to have false beliefs in which they mistake fictional objects and events for real objects and events
Perceptual realism
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Radiation emitted from cell towers
EMF radiation
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Also known as paranoia, effects indivudals thoughts and behaviors
Fear psychosis
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A framework or methodology that appreciates that a single enviro controvery is mediated through varied media formats and genres
Mediated technoscience publics
