hunter vaughan

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i am the environmental media scholar-in-residence in the college of media, communication, and information at the university of colorado boulder, where i work to build interdisciplinary bridges between arts, humanities, communication, and social science approaches to how we might lead more conscientious lives in relation to both our daily media use and our relationship with nonhuman nature. I am a cultural historian focusing on screen (ie film tv digital anything on screens) culture and issues of social identity and justice in relation to the human manufacturing of perceptions and treatments of the “natural” - in other words: environmental media studies. My greatest professional hope is that this scholarship might be applicable and assist in more efficacious science communication and more ethical media practice, that we might live in correlation with our beliefs - that a deep change in cultural values might be happening, in which interdisciplinary education, research, and collaboration will play a crucial role.

my other current scholarship focuses on new media and communication, including “mediated heritage”, a study of the role of digital media in heritage sites and cultural institutions, analyzing the use of digital media and screen technologies (such as 3-D projections, interactive media, and augmented reality apps) in the construction of local identity in the era of globalization; a new reception study addressing the efficacy of short-form environmental messaging in diverse Miami communities; and a research and outreach project on interactive media in education.

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