ABSTRACT

The emerge of scholarship on film, music, and photography demonstrated the power of the environmental humanities as a mode of Green cultural studies, and coincided with a focus on environmental justice and eco-cosmopolitanism. Convergence culture has three components: media convergence, participatory culture and collective intelligence. This chapter discusses each of these concepts and demonstrates the movements of media content destabilizes the boundary between high and low culture, shifts the ground of interpretation and expands the agency of activists. Black Phoenix image is an example of convergence culture at work in environmental politics: a "mashup" or combination of two media objects that had nothing to do with one another in their original form. Convergence culture in ecomedia performs a pragmatic, market-based function and a liberatory, political function in the digital public sphere. The digital mapping techniques extends into projects of citizen science and political activism suggests that media surrounds but not limited by the economic logic of the global marketplace.