ENIDA - Experiencing Nature in the Digital Age
2019
Recreational uses of outdoor natural environments have become a fundamental part of
Scandinavian national identities since the late 1800s. Through leisure activities like
trekking and hunting, people gain access to particular ways of knowing and valuing nature,
developed over time as cultural traditions. More than anything else, such activities have
come to define what a natural landscape should look like and how it should be valued.
This project seeks to understand what happens when new and pervasive digital technologies
become part of this relationship with nature.
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People @ Humlab
In cooperation with
- Finn Arne Jørgensen
- Isabelle Brännlund
- SLU
Financier
The goal of the project is to uncover the ways in which media technologies have shaped recreational uses of nature in Scandinavia since the late 1800s. The project will pay particular attention to digital media technologies post-2000, but will apply a comparative historical perspective to place these technologies in a longer historical context.
