Quarantine encounters with digital animals: More-than-human geographies of lockdown life | Zendy

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Quarantine encounters with digital animals: More-than-human geographies of lockdown life

Author(s) -

Jonathon Turnbull,

Adam Searle,

William M. Adams

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

journal of environmental media

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2632-2471

pISSN - 2632-2463

DOI - 10.1386/jem_00027_1

Subject(s) - avatar , scholarship , quarantine , human life , non human , covid-19 , environmental ethics , internet privacy , computer science , biology , political science , human–computer interaction , ecology , medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , philosophy , humanity , disease , pathology

Quarantine conditions led to the proliferation of digital encounters with nonhuman animals. Here, we explore three prominent forms: creaturely cameos, avatar acquaintances and background birding. These virtual encounters afforded during lockdown life generated novel and affective human–animal relations that could have lasting effects for humans and nonhumans post-quarantine, posing interesting questions for more-than-human scholarship.

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