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oa Quarantine encounters with digital animals: More-than-human geographies of lockdown life
- Source: Journal of Environmental Media, Volume 1, Issue s1, Jun 2020, p. 6.1 - 6.10
Abstract
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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