The Chicago School and Ecology
A Reappraisal for the Digital Era
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3757569 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (0000-0002-8461-5795, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 8-23 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764215601709 |
| OpenAlex | W1900744803 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 33 |
The Chicago School's use of ecological metaphors has much to offer scholars interested in the complexities of the contemporary media environment. This article considers how the use of ecological metaphors enabled the Chicago School to build an empirical approach to the study of human forms of organization and traces how the use of ecological metaphors has evolved in subsequent scholarship on media and communication. It examines the interest of media ecology scholars in the environment created by technologies, and discusses how proponents of actor network theory have expanded the view of networked actors to encompass technologies, objects, and human agents. The article subsequently traces a more recent proliferation of ecological metaphors as a way of understanding globalized and networked media practices. This approach, in turn, enables the reconfiguration of questions around the relationship between media, democracy, and citizenship. This article suggests that the use of ecological approaches enables scholars to pay attention to the complexities of networked interactions in communities that are geographically bounded but globally connected. This, in turn, points the continued importance of grounded, nitty-gritty empirical work tracing the variety of communicative practices within particular communities, and the ways in which these practices are shaped by relationships between a variety of actors within and beyond these communities
Biology · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Media ecology · Media studies · New media · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Ecology · Media Studies and Communication · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media · Social Media and Politics
Building the bioethics tools of a community council to the future
At the confluence of ethics, laws and society
Saint Joan of the Stockyards meets the Chicago School
Catalysts of connection. The role of digital information and communication technology in fostering neighbourhood social cohesion
“You Know You’re from Le Lignon If … ” Negotiating Neighbourhood Belonging on Social Media
Logics and levels of ecology theory
Fields and Ecologies
Building an audience, bonding a city
Why mental disorders flourish and wither
A 'fertile soil' for sustainability-related community initiatives
A Second Chicago School?
The Chicago school of sociology
No sense of peace
Department and Discipline
The Urban Sociology Reader
Ecology of Fear
Satan and savior
Reassembling the Social
City as Truth-Spot
Rebuilding the News
Interactivity in the daily routines of online newsrooms
Rethinking News Access
Research that empowers responsibility
We Have Never Been Modern
Quest for an American Sociology
Imagined communities
Understanding media
Media Ecology
Internet Use and the Concentration of Disadvantage
Unnatural Ecologies
Does the Internet Increase, Decrease, or Supplement Social Capital
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
The Complexities of the Global
Reflections on Communication and Culture
Human Migration and the Marginal Man
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |