Magnetic landscapes of multispecies activity in the Digital Anthropocene

A growing infrastructure of digital conservation surveillance is transforming human-wildlife relationships in the ‘Digital Anthropocene’, an epoch characterized by the increasing mediation of interspecies encounters through digital surveillance technologies, the tracking affordances of social media platforms, and citizen science networks. This article examines how digital surveillance technologies are generating magnetic landscapes where digital surveillance practices are ‘pulling’ humans and endangered marine wildlife into new relations of cohabitation, as well as unpredictable multispecies futures of care, commodification, and control. I explore how digital practices of wildlife surveillance and tracking are generating new forms of digitally-mediated human-wildlife intimacy. As this ‘digital intimacy’ increasingly shapes possibilities for human coexistence and co-adaptation with monk seals under climate change, I suggest how sociolinguistic research on semiotic landscapes might fruitfully contribute to these emerging lines of research on the multispecies entanglements that technologies of digital tracking and surveillance are generating in the Digital Anthropocene. (Multispecies, semiotic landscape, nexus analysis, mediated discourse analysis, conservation, Anthropocene)

Affordance · Anthropocene · Digital media · Futures contract · Mediation · Nexus (standard · Semiotics · Wildlife · Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Marine animal studies overview

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