Media, Animal Conservation and Environmental Education

John Blewitt co-directs the MSc Social Responsibility and Sustainability course at Aston University, UK. He has published widely on education, the media and sustainability, and is a member of the IUCN Commission for Education and Communication. He is author of Media Ecology and Conservation (2010) and Understanding Sustainable Development (2008).

• 1. Introduction: The media, animal conservation and environmental education John Blewitt 2. Critical practice and the public pedagogy of environmental and conservation media John Blewitt 3. Humans, sharks and the shared environment in the contemporary eco-doc Helen Hughes 4. Studying Green Spectacular Environmentalisms Group: Sian Sullivan, Gill Branston, Mike Goodman, Jaimie Lorimer, James Igoe, Dan Brockington and John Blewitt & Filmmaker: Patrick Rouxel 5. Harnessing visual media in environmental education: increasing knowledge of orangutan conservation issues and facilitating sustainable behaviour through video presentations Elissa Pearson, Jillian Dorrian and Carla Litchfield 6. The application of online wildlife imagery as an education conservation tool Alexander Royan and Bonnie Metherell 7. Conservation photography as environmental education: focus on the pedagogues Bruce Evan Farnsworth 8. Field birding and digital objects: immaterial technologies and their implications for one practice of coming to know the more-than-human Gavan Peter Longley Watson 9. Exploring use of new media in environmental education contexts: introducing visitors’ technology use in zoos model Victor Yocco, Elizabeth H. Danter, Joseph E. Heimlich, Betty A. Dunckel and Chris Myers 10. Linking community communication to conservation of the maned wolf in central Brazil Marcelo Ximenes A. Bizerril, Carla Cruz Soares and Jean Pierre Santos 11. The environmental education through filmmaking project Hallie Harness and Howard Drossman 12. Enhancing college students’ environmental sensibilities through online nature journaling Gwen Arnold