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Me, myselfie and nature: Entaglements with wilderness
Swedish Agricultural University .
Swedish Agricultural University .
University of Borås, Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT. (Information Practices and Digital Cultures)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8293-8208
2021 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Sustainable development
According to the author(s), the content of this publication falls within the area of sustainable development.
Abstract [en]

Selfies and nature photography represent and stage idealised forms of the self and nature respectively, constructing specific norms of share-worthy imagery, experiences, and ultimately ‘beauty’. Connecting these two genres, we suggest that the visual and co-located textual sign systems (e.g. hashtags, shares, likes) of nature-selfies code these entanglements and facilitate certain understandings of and engagements with 'nature' or 'wilderness'; nature-selfies thereby not only connect but are also implicated in both ends of this mediation. Building on extant the STS  the disciplinarily diverse literature on platforms, in our contribution, we investigate expressions of the aligned data practices of taking, sharing, and interacting with selfies as influenced by the infrastructural arrangements es of specific social media platforms. Exploring five instances cases of different nature-selfie contexts through field and desk research, we find that nature-selfies mediate (often unequal) human-nature and human-human relationships through ‘stuff’ and its absence. These relationships not only demarcate community membership, but also impact and exploit nature in material and discursive terms. We suggest further study of taking, sharing, and interacting with nature-selfies and nature-through-selfies as a (in many ways) highly impactful everyday practice of engaging with the environment, possibly contributing to an understanding of the tensions expressed within the sustainability issues of our times.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2021.
Keywords [sv]
environmental information; environmental communication; information studies; social media
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Information Studies
Research subject
Library and Information Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-25428OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-25428DiVA, id: diva2:1555283
Conference
Nordic Science and Technology Studies Conference 2021 (STS AND THE FUTURE AS A MATTER OF COLLECTIVE CONCERN), Copenhagen Business School, May 20-21, 2021
Projects
MISTRA Miljökommunikation (WP5)
Funder
Mistra - The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental ResearchAvailable from: 2021-05-18 Created: 2021-05-18 Last updated: 2025-09-24Bibliographically approved

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