Using film & new media technologies to encourage the protection of the natural world The second book in The Converging World series, Media, Ecology and Conservation focuses on global connectivity and the role of new digital and traditional media in bringing people together to protect the world’s endangered wildlife and conserve fragile and threatened habitats. New media offers opportunities for like-minded individuals, community groups, businesses and public organisations to learn and work cooperatively for the good of all species. At the core of this book is an examination of a range of activities surrounding the internationally renowned education and communication work of Wildscreen, a premier multi-media organisation promoting animal and habitat conservation, natural history and ecological film-making and digital archiving. Wildscreen is now a leading force in the application of new media technologies in sustainability communications. One of the key themes of this book explores the important issue of how new information and communication technologies mediate the natural world, and our apprehension of our place in it. The Author: Dr. John Blewitt is Director of Lifelong Learning at Aston University, UK. He has published widely on sustainable development, learning and the media and has extensive experience of adult, community, further and higher education. He edited Community, Empowerment and Sustainable Development, the first title in the Converging World series and is author of Understanding Sustainable Development (Earthscan, 2008) and The Ecology of Learning (Earthscan, 2006). Advance Information sheet Author Information
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