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Through a study of Cecil the Lion, this article considers the role that digital eco-photography plays in our networked media ecology. As images related to his death were disseminated online, Cecil the Lion became an active artefact of environmentalist mass self-communication. On this occasion, online participatory culture harnessed and renewed the genre of eco-photography for purposes of debate and community building, thus providing new outlets for expressing and promoting moral outrage and censure.
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Biographical note
Karla McManus is an art historian and visual theorist who specializes in the study of photography and the environmental imaginary. As a SSHRC Post-doctoral Fellow at Queen’s University (2015-2017), Karla is researching the narratives of indigeneity, colonialism, and environmental conservation in the work of mid-20th century wildfowl photographer Lorene Squire, as seen in the Beaver magazine. In 2015, Karla graduated from Concordia University where she completed her Ph.D. on the study of contemporary eco-photography and the global environmental imaginary. Karla’s writing has been published in Intermédialités, and is forthcoming from the Journal of Canadian Art History and the Journal of Canadian Studies.
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