#AmazonFires and the online composition of forest politics

Talk on "#AmazonFires and the online composition of forest politics" at "Ecologies and Infrastructures: Cultural Techniques of Environmental Management" symposium, co-organised by King’s College London and Arizona State University, 22nd April 2022.

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1. #AmazonFires and the online composition of forest politics Liliana Bounegru Gabriele Colombo Jonathan Gray
5. What might these digital objects tell us about cultural techniques of environmental management – and the infrastructuring of natureculture?
6. What is happening? The algorithmic mediation of environmental events What is engaging? Querying objects of engagement in environmental events What is hashtagging? Hashtags as indicators of environmental issue composition What is imaging? From visual misinformation to social lives of environmental images
7. What is happening? The algorithmic mediation of environmental events What is engaging? Querying objects of engagement in environmental events What is hashtagging? Hashtags as indicators of environmental issue composition What is imaging? From visual misinformation to social lives of environmental images
9. Screenshots from S. J. Piatek (2021), “#sandiegofire – the first successful hashtag”. https://www.sjpiatek.com/research/sandiegofire-the-first-successful-hashtag/
10. Total number of posts per day associated with #ActForTheAmazon, #amazonfires, #AmazonRainforest, #PrayforAmazonia, #SaveTheAmazon or #SOSAmazonia according to data collected from Twitter API using DMI-TCAT tool.
13. 2019 2020 Comparison of Wikipedia pages for Amazon fires 2019-2020 Wikipedia page views
15. Excerpts from tweets showing how Twitter Trending algorithm is thematised in Amazon fires collection.
16. What is happening? The algorithmic mediation of environmental events What is engaging? Querying objects of engagement in environmental events What is hashtagging? Hashtags as indicators of environmental issue composition What is imaging? From visual misinformation to social lives of environmental images
18. #AmazonFires as reception archive?
19. What is happening? The algorithmic mediation of environmental events What is engaging? Querying objects of engagement in environmental events What is hashtagging? Hashtags as indicators of environmental issue composition What is imaging? From visual misinformation to social lives of environmental images
22. What is happening? The algorithmic mediation of environmental events What is engaging? Querying objects of engagement in environmental events What is hashtagging? Hashtags as indicators of environmental issue composition What is imaging? From visual misinformation to social lives of environmental images
24. [burned animal 1] [burned animal 2] [burned animal 3] [burned animal 4]
27. What is happening? The algorithmic mediation of environmental events What is engaging? Querying objects of engagement in environmental events What is hashtagging? Hashtags as indicators of environmental issue composition What is imaging? From visual misinformation to social lives of environmental images
29. Digital objects as relational indicators of making of environmental politics and events?
30. Rethinking sites, actors and formats of environmental politics?
31. From “anti-politics machines” (Tsing, 2011) to “reconsideration machines” (Saunders, 2021)?
32. Attending to absence and recomposing relations?
34. http://amazonfires.publicdatalab.org/ http://www.digicologies.com/ liliana.bounegru@kcl.ac.uk gabriele.colombo@kcl.ac.uk jonathan.gray@kcl.ac.uk http://recipes.publicdatalab.org/