Tilting for Windmills: Climate Change, Websites, and Ecocritical Pedagogy
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https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2010.1.1.317Mots-clés :
digital media, multimedia technology, climate change, cyber ecocriticism, pedagogyRésumé
Key words: digital media, multimedia technology, climate change, cyber ecocriticism, pedagogy
Ecocriticism in general has concentrated on literary texts and has relegated other types of texts, particularly digital and interactive texts which are those which arguably have the greatest influence and readership in the 21st century. Thus, the need for ecocritical study of digital media, which would combine the investigation of the rhetorical and narrative features both of websites as a totality and of their specific content, as well as reception and reader response analyses. Using the experience of a graduate course, the multiple benefits of this approach illustrates how the ecocritique of digital media can achieve numerous objectives in a variety of pedagogical situations and provide a way to integrate environmental issues into skill dominant courses.
Palabras clave: medios audiovisuales y digitales, tecnología multimedia, cambio climático, ecocritica cibernética, pedagogía
La ecocrítica en general se ha centrado en textos literarios y ha relegado otros tipos de textos, en particular textos digitales e interactivos que podría decirse que son los de mayor influencia y mayor número de lectores del siglo XXI. Por ello es necesario el estudio ecocrítico de los medios de comunicación digitales, que combinaría la investigación de las características retóricas y narrativas de tanto las páginas web en su totalidad como de su contenido específico, así como de los análisis de la recepción y de la respuesta del lector. Usando la experiencia de un curso de postgrado, los múltiples beneficios de este enfoque ilustran cómo la ecocrítica de los medios de comunicación digitales pueden conseguir numerosos objetivos en una variedad de situaciones pedagógicas y proporcionar una manera de integrar los temas medioambientales en cursos predominantemente centrados en la adquisición de destrezas.
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