López, Antonio

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Antonio Lopez, PhD, is a curriculum designer, educator, trainer, and theorist with a research focus on bridging ecojustice and media literacy. He is a founding theorist and architect of ecomedia literacy and creator of the ecomedialiteracy.org website, which curates education resources. He has written numerous academic articles, essays, and four monographs: Ecomedia Literacy: Integrating Ecology into Media Education; Greening Media Education: Bridging Media Literacy with Green Cultural Citizenship; The Media Ecosystem: What Ecology Can Teach Us About Responsible Media Practice; and Mediacology: A Multicultural Approach to Media Literacy in the 21st Century. He is lead editor of the Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies. Currently he is Professor of Communication and Media Studies. Resources and writing are available at: https://antonio-lopez.com/

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    Integrating Information Literacy in a Communication Writing Course
    (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2020) López, Antonio; Piotto, Livia; Macias-Gutiérrez, Elizabeth
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    Ecomedia Literacy & SDGs: A Handbook for Higher Ed
    (2024) López, Antonio
    This handbook provides a guide for integrating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into liberal arts and sciences curricula through the framework of ecomedia literacy. Ecomedia literacy investigates the relationship between media, information and communication technology (ICT), and environmental sustainability, considering both the ecological impacts of media systems and the role of media in shaping environmental awareness and actions. The handbook offers key concepts, learning objectives, interdisciplinary applications, and practical activities to help educators incorporate ecomedia literacy and the SDGs across various disciplines in higher education.
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    Greening A Digital Media Culture Course: A Field Report
    (2013) López, Antonio
    As a professor of undergraduate media studies, I have attempted to bridge media education and ecoliteracy by developing an experimental media education approach called Ecomedia Literacy. The framework attempts to balance the strengths of media studies with the concerns of education for sustainability. This paper documents a specific case study in which I introduced sustainability themes into an undergraduate digital technology and culture course by using the Ecomedia Literacy framework.
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    Ecomedia: The metaphor that makes a difference
    (2020) López, Antonio
    Media is an ambiguous metaphor that changes meaning depending on how it’s used by educators. Typically media are only characterized by how they represent reality and communicate ideas. Consequently, the metaphor assumes a taken-for-granted meaning that media are immaterial with no environmental impact. Instead, the term ecomedia signals media’s inherent environmentality. This essay introduces our special issue on ecomedia literacy by exploring how the ecomedia metaphor affords a deeper awareness of media’s environmental footprint.
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    Ecomedia Literacy. A Quickstart Guide
    (2024) López, Antonio
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    When Do Media Become Ecomedia?
    (Routledge, 2023) Ivakhiv, Adrian; López, Antonio
    This chapter explores the conceptual foundations and key theories of ecomedia studies. It provides an overview of the historical development of ecomedia studies and how the field connects with other areas of inquiry, such as new materialism, ecofeminism, postcolonial studies, and Black media philosophy. It discusses key concepts and theories in the field, including how the evolving definitions of media and of ecology shape discourses and attitudes about the interplay between media, technology, communication, and the environment. The chapter concludes by outlining strategies and approaches for future research in ecomedia studies.
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    Testing the Effectiveness of an Ecomedia Literacy Environmental Education Lesson
    (2024) Lo Iacono, Ludovica; López, Antonio; Visintin, Emilio Paolo
    The growing environmental crisis requires innovative educational strategies to promote pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors. In this context, ecomedia literacy, which combines ecological education and media to enhance pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors, stimulate sustainable actions, and foster critical thinking, represents a promising approach. In this research, we evaluated the effectiveness of an ecomedia literacy-based lesson. Participants (N = 106) were randomly assigned to either an ecomedia literacy group or a control group. Those in the ecomedia literacy group first attended the lesson and then completed a questionnaire to assess pro-environmental attitudes and behavioral intentions, while those in the control group completed the questionnaire before the lesson. The lesson focused on the use of plastic water bottles, and attitudes and intentions were assessed both in general toward the environment and specifically regarding the consumption of plastic bottles. The intervention was not successful in changing intentions or attitudes toward plastic bottles, but some facets of pro-environmental attitudes were better in the ecomedia literacy group than in the control group. The limited effectiveness of the lesson indicates the need for significant changes in content and future strategies to better achieve sustainability goals.
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    The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies
    (Routledge, 2023) López, Antonio; Ivakhiv, Adrian; Rust, Stephen; Tola, Miriam; Chang, Alenda Y.; Chu, Kiu-wai
    The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies gathers leading work by critical scholars in this burgeoning field. Redressing the lack of environmental perspectives in the study of media, ecomedia studies asserts that media are in and about the environment, and environments are socially and materially mediated. The book gives form to this new area of study and brings together diverse scholarly contributions to explore and give definition to the field. The Handbook highlights five critical areas of ecomedia scholarship: ecomedia theory, ecomateriality, political ecology, ecocultures, and eco-affects. Within these areas, authors navigate a range of different topics including infrastructures, supply and manufacturing chains, energy, e-waste, labor, ecofeminism, African and Indigenous ecomedia, environmental justice, environmental media governance, ecopolitical satire, and digital ecologies. The result is a holistic volume that provides an in-depth and comprehensive overview of the current state of the field, as well as future developments. This volume will be an essential resource for students, educators, and scholars of media studies, cultural studies, film, environmental communication, political ecology, science and technology studies, and the environmental humanities. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis. com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Deep gratitude for the generous support of those institutions that provided funding to enable this volume to be available simultaneously in print and open access: University of Oregon Libraries Open Access Publishing Award, Frank J. Guarini School of Busi-ness at John Cabot University, University of Vermont Humanities Center, University of California Santa Barbara, University of Lausanne, and School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University.
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    Bella Gaia and the Pedagogical Power of the Overview Effect: An Interview with Kenji Williams
    (2020) López, Antonio
    Bella Gaia (Beautiful Earth) is a performance that combines a world-music inspired soundtrack with projected graphics, animations and video to educate about climate change. A hybrid of art and science, the nonlinear performance is an example of an emerging form of ecomedia in which remote sensing media are used to transform audiences to experience Earth as an organic, living organism. Bella Gaia’s creative director and creator, Kenji Williams, discusses this new form of educational experience. The violinist, composer and filmmaker incorporates a neuro-science driven methodology to create “immersive live theater, mixed reality, and interactive data visualization.”