Un-indexing forest media

Repurposing Search Query Results to Reconsider Forest-Society Relations

Bibliographic Data

ID7739690
AuthorsGabriele Colombo (0000-0003-0845-1757, King's College London, corresponding author), Jonathan Gray (0000-0001-6668-5899, King's College London), Jonathan W Y Gray (King's College London)
Year2024
Volume31
Issue4
Pages569-576
Publication date2024-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Geographies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1474-4740 • E-ISSN: 1477-0881
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14744740231181566
OpenAlexW4380789396
LanguageEN
Citations received2

Geographical research is increasingly focused on how digital technology shapes human-nature relations. This article explores how internet search engines and their associated algorithms and indexing technologies order and produce homogenising accounts of forest places. We put forward ‘un-indexing’ as a critical and inventive method for un-ordering and re-ordering search engine results to complicate digital perspectives on forest-society relations. We present Everything at the Forest Park, a series of four speculative catalogues we created to invite collective inquiries into the digital mediation of a forested area in Scotland – Queen Elizabeth Forest Park. Fostering a slower form of engagement with web material, the catalogues suggest how geographers and other scholars might critically repurpose, reappropriate and interrogate the algorithmically curated and advertising-oriented orderings of search engines to foster more careful and convivial forest-society relations

Business · Data science · Mediation · Order (exchange · Repurposing · Search engine indexing · Social science · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Forest Management and Policy · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Ecology

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