Digital media, political affect, and a youth to come

Rethinking climate change education through Deleuzian dramatisation

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ID8076993
AuthorsD Rousell (0000-0002-4509-6128, RMIT University, corresponding author), Thilinika Wijesinghe (0000-0003-3783-6648, Southern Cross University), Amy Cutter‐mackenzie (0000-0002-2499-8552, Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University Gold Coast Campus, Coolangatta, Australia), Maia Osborn (0000-0003-2762-5038, Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University Gold Coast Campus, Coolangatta, Australia)
Year2021
Volume75
Issue1
Pages33-53
Publication date2021-09-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-1911 • E-ISSN: 1465-3397
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00131911.2021.1965959
OpenAlexW3199846428
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited47

Set within a theatrical unfolding of global youth climate movements, this paper explores the role of digital media in staging new possibilities for climate change education and activism. We engage Deleuze’s method of dramatisation to theorise how young people are using digital platforms to perform climate activism and construct new political subjectivities through affective investments. We develop these ideas by describing the process of co-developing a climate change education App with young people. This co-design process brought together elements of climate education, environmental science, speculative fiction, gaming, social media, and hacktivism as techniques for dramatising climate change through digital practices of fabulation. We argue that climate change is a complex philosophical problem that needs to be dramatised – and that young people are currently using digital media to elaborate speculative performances of this problem through the cultivation of a minor politics

Aesthetics · Art · Climate change · Construct (python library · Digital media · Environmental ethics · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Social media · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Ecology

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