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San Andreas State: Animal Cam

March 21, 2016
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A fascinating experiment in more-than-human viewpoints in computer games. San Andreas Deer Cam is a live video stream from a computer running a hacked version of Grand Theft Auto V,…

Parks and Technology: A Match Made in California

March 16, 2016
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For too long a myth has persisted that nature and technology don’t mix well. It’s easy to understand why. Nature is the place we go to escape technology. Today, we’re…

Pigeons with tiny backpacks test the air in London

March 15, 2016
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.article-header Kate Yoder reports for Grist on the "Pigeon Air Patrol": Shielding your picnic lunch from London’s plentiful pigeon population is almost as much of a tourist tradition as taking a…

The Unnatural Kingdom: If technology helps us save the wilderness, will the wilderness still be wild?

March 11, 2016
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In the New York Times Sunday Review, Daniel Duane reflects on the use of cameras and tracking devices to manage "wilderness": wildlife managers everywhere are seizing more and more of…

NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication

March 11, 2016
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Through NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication, the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation jointly support individual scholars pursuing research projects that require digital expression and…

Science and Art of Visibility Analysis for HGIS

March 10, 2016
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Megan Prescott of the Nipissing University’s Integrative Watershed Research Centre continues on the Empire Trees Climate blog a series of posts about the use of georeferenced scanned historical colonial maps…

The Trans-Atlantic Platform launches fourth Digging into Data Challenge

March 10, 2016
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The Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) is launching a groundbreaking pilot programme: the T-AP Digging into Data Challenge. Formed on the basis of previous successful collaborations, the Challenge is aimed at supporting…

Edo-era illustrated records show the disasters that have plagued Japan throughout its history

March 10, 2016
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The Japanese news blog RocketNews24 reports the release by the National Archives of Japan of various "written records and woodblock prints detailing various earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, fires, floods, and contagious…

Review: Firewatch and the Addictiveness of Lonely Video Games

March 10, 2016
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David Sims reviews Campo Santo's "walking simulator" Firewatch for The Atlantic. Solitude, it turns out, can be addictive. So I learned playing the new hit indie game Firewatch, where all…

Jennifer Gabrys on “The Internet of Things and the rise of planetary computerization”

March 4, 2016
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Jennifer Gabrys, Goldsmiths College, writes about her upcoming book Program Earth: Planetary computerization—and the making of a computational planet—are terms and concepts that now occupy considerable attention in media studies…

Eruptions, Earthquakes, & Emissions: Visualizing the Planet’s Heartbeat

Exit counselling for the Modern?

Ant meets ANT: A gathering on “media ecologies”

A THATCamp for environmental historians