Pitching the "Big Tent" Outside: An Argument for the Digital Environmental Humanities

Alenda Y. Chang is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research and teaching interests include environmental media, histories and theories of the digital, game studies, science and technology studies, and sound studies. Chang’s articles have appeared in numerous journals, among them Qui Parle, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, electronic book review, Feminist Media Histories, and Resilience. Her first book, Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games, develops environmentally informed frameworks for understanding and designing digital games (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). At UC Santa Barbara, Chang directs the Creative Computing Initiative and co-directs Wireframe, a studio promoting collaborative theoretical and creative media practice with investments in global social and environmental justice. She is also a founding co-editor of the UC Press open-access journal, Media+Environment.