Digital Animalities

Jody Berland is professor emerita and senior scholar in the Department of Humanities at York University. She is author of North of Empire: Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space and Virtual Menageries: Animals as Mediators in Network Cultures and coeditor of Cultures of Militarization.Thomas Lamarre is Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and East Asian Language and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is author of The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation and The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media, both from Minnesota.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Mediating Animal Life in Ecopolitical TimesJody Berland and Thomas LamarrePart I. Capturing1. Champing at the Bit: Materialities and Ontologies of the Digital Animal ArchiveEtienne Benson2. The Future of Interaction: Touched by Mediated Animals at the Japanese Living ZooMichael Fisch3. You Turn to the Camera and I Smile: The Apophatic Animal in Trap Cam FootageChristine L. Marran4. Tarred Feathers: Mining Tails and Deterrent MediaHannah TollefsonPart II. Playing5. "They're Only Animals. That's No Excuse for Dirty Football!" Sport and the Animated AnimalPaul Wells6. Listening and Playing with/as Nonhuman Animals in Avatar Video GamesKate Galloway7. Robotic Jellyfish Blooms in Anthropocene OceansBrian McCormack8. Saurian Gestures: Animating and Being Animated by DinosaursJonathan Osborn9. Rewilding the Virtual: Bewilderment and Ecological Augmentation in Jakob Kudsk Steensen's Re-WildlingSarah BezanPart III. Consuming10. Affective Human–Monster Communication in Monster HuntHang Wu11. Total BS! Why You Should Be Passionate About Crap, and Much ElseTom Tyler12. Digital Unworldings: YouTube Animal VideosGiovanni AloiContributorsIndex