Digital Worldbuilding and Ecological Readiness

This book explores how individuals in digital communities can become ecologically ready participants who are willing to build a flourishing relationship with the environment through a community-care paradigm. It draws on diverse lines of inquiry to demonstrate how digital rhetorics can provide ecological readiness, enable the creation of more-than-human worlds, and promote vulnerable flourishing.

Format: Unspecified
Length: 228 pages
Publication date: 15 November 2023
Publisher: Lexington Books

The book explores the potential of digital communities to cultivate ecological readiness and foster a harmonious relationship with the environment during the Anthropocene era. It adopts a community-care paradigm, which is rooted in a relational ontology, situated knowledge, and ethics of care. The author integrates diverse fields of inquiry, such as ancient and contemporary rhetoric, media studies, ethical philosophy, and animal studies, to highlight how digital discourses can shed light on the multifaceted, ongoing, active, and rhetorical processes of flourishing for our bodies, selves, and environment.

Throughout the book, each chapter contributes to theorizing and illuminating how digital rhetorics can empower individuals with ecological readiness, enable the creation of more-than-human worlds of contingent well-being, and promote vulnerable flourishing. By embracing the power of digital technologies and fostering a sense of community and care, individuals can become active participants in shaping a sustainable future for our planet.

The book offers valuable insights for scholars, educators, policymakers, and individuals seeking to navigate the complexities of the digital age and cultivate a deeper connection with the natural world. It encourages readers to embrace the potential of digital communities to promote ecological resilience, social justice, and human flourishing in a rapidly changing world.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666915464