Environment, Media, and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia (eBook)

This book addresses the increasingly important subject of ecomedia by critically examining the interconnections between environment, ecology, media forms, and popular culture in the Southeast Asian region, exploring methods such as textual analysis, thematic analysis, content analysis, participatory ethnography, auto ethnography, and semi-structured interviewing. It is divided into four sections: I. Activism, Environment, and Indigeneity; II. Political, Ecologies and Urban Spaces; III. Narratives, Discourses, and Aesthetics; and IV. Imperialism, Nationalism, and Islands, covering topics such as broadcast media (radio and TV) and the environment; green cinema and ecodocumentaries, ecodigital art, digital environmental literature. It is of great interest to researchers, students, practitioners and scholars working in the area of humanities, media, communications, cultural studies, environmental humanities, environmental studies, and sustainability.

Jason Paolo R. Telles is an Assistant Professor of Broadcast Communication of the University of the Philippines, Baguio. As an ecocritic, he has presented and published his research on Indigenous mediation of eco-cosmovisions, critical animal and media studies, and ecomedia studies in various conferences, books, and academic journals. Apart from that, his other research interests are media anthropology, Indigenous media studies, and media linguistics. He is a member of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment - Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASLE-ASEAN) and the Southeast Asian Media Studies Association.

Jeconiah Louis Dreisbach (PhD Candidate, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) is an Assistant Professorial Lecturer at the Department of Filipino of De La Salle University in Manila, The Philippines. His research interests include the political economy of popular culture, politics of Southeast Asian media, and language and media. His works were also published in the fields of sociolinguistics, public health, and Philippine cultural studies. He is a member of the Southeast Asian Media Studies Association and the Philippine International Studies Organization. He is also an editorial board member of the Malaysian Journal of Media Studies (Universiti Malaya

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This book addresses the increasingly important subject of ecomedia by critically examining the interconnections between environment, ecology, media forms, and popular culture in the Southeast Asian region, exploring methods such as textual analysis, thematic analysis, content analysis, participatory ethnography, auto ethnography, and semi-structured interviewing. It is divided into four sections: I. Activism, Environment, and Indigeneity; II. Political, Ecologies and Urban Spaces; III. Narratives, Discourses, and Aesthetics; and IV. Imperialism, Nationalism, and Islands, covering topics such as broadcast media (radio and TV) and the environment; green cinema and ecodocumentaries, ecodigital art, digital environmental literature. It is of great interest to researchers, students, practitioners and scholars working in the area of humanities, media, communications, cultural studies, environmental humanities, environmental studies, and sustainability.