"This is the first book to explore the numerous ways in which mobile technologies and social media are influencing our outdoor experiences. Across the fields of outdoor education, outdoor recreation and leisure, and nature-based tourism, the book considers how practices within each of those domains are being influenced by dramatically shifting interactions between technology, humans, the natural world, and wider society. Drawing on cutting-edge research by leading scholars from around the world and exploring key concepts and theory as well as developments in professional practice, the book explains how digital technology and media are no longer separate from typical human and social activity. Instead, the broader field of outdoor studies can be viewed asa world of intertwined socio-technical assemblages which need to be understood in more diverse ways. Presenting new work on subjects including networked spaces in residential outdoor education; digital competencies for outdoor educators; the use of social media in climbing communities; and the impact of digital technologies on experiences of adventure tourism, the book offers a full-spectrum view of this profound shift in our engagement with the world around us. This is essential reading for anybody withan interest in outdoor studies, outdoor education, adventure education, leisure studies, tourism, environmental studies, environmental education, or science, technology and society studies"--
This is the first book to explore the numerous ways in which mobile technologies and social media are influencing our outdoor experiences.
Across the fields of outdoor education, outdoor recreation and leisure, and nature-based tourism, the book considers how practices within each of those domains are being influenced by dramatically shifting interactions between technology, humans, the natural world, and wider society. Drawing on cutting-edge research by leading scholars from around the world and exploring key concepts and theory, as well as developments in professional practice, the book explains how digital technology and media are no longer separate from typical human and social activity. Instead, the broader field of outdoor studies can be viewed as a world of intertwined socio-technical assemblages that need to be understood in more diverse ways. The book offers a full-spectrum view of this profound shift in our engagement with the world around us by presenting new work on subjects including networked spaces in residential outdoor education, digital competencies for outdoor educators, the use of social media in climbing communities, and the impact of digital technologies on experiences of adventure tourism.
This is essential reading for anybody with an interest in outdoor studies, outdoor education, adventure education, leisure studies, tourism, environmental studies, environmental education, or science, technology, and society studies.
This is the first book to explore the numerous ways in which mobile technologies and social media are influencing our outdoor experiences.
1. Introduction: Where Did We Start, and Where Will This Book Take Us?,
PART I: Outdoor Education,
2. Mobile Technology and Social Media in the
Assemblage of Outdoor Pursuits: A Theoretical Stance on Complexity and
Uncertainty,
3. A Postdigital Lens on Outdoor Research,
4. Outdoor Education,
Technology, and the Anthropocene,
5. Managing Digital Technology in Outdoor
Education,
6. Digital Competence in Outdoor Education,
7. Technological
Affordances in Understanding Biodiversity: Life, Place, and Time,
8.
Assembling Mobile Technology and Outdoor Education Practice: Affordances,
Pitfalls and Pedagogical Pathways,
9. Youth, Identity, and Social Media: The
Promise of Outdoor Education as a Context for Identity Development,
10.
Smartwatches, Bodies, and Landscapes: Experiencing the Mountains as Cyborgs,
11. The Digital Canoe Trip: Do We Return to Our Old Teaching Styles After
COVID-19?,
12. Bridging Outdoor Education, Digital Technology and Well-Being
through Pedagogical and Psychological Perspectives, PART II: Outdoor
Recreation,
13. A Case for Using Mobile Technology to Facilitate Inclusion in
the Outdoors for Those Who Live with Disabilities and/or Chronic Illness:
Crossing the Digital Crevasse,
14. The Power and Peril of Smartphones and
Social Media in Avalanche Terrain,
15. Social Media and Research in a
Climbing Community: Gleaning Insights,
16. The Art of Dotwatching in
Ultra-Distance Cycling: When a Human Becomes a Dot,
17. Becoming an Outdoors
Person: Identity Transformation through Nature Activity and Social Media in
Norway,
18. Use of Digital Technologies for Hiking: A Quantitative Study of
Four Spanish Protected Areas,
19. The Promises and Perils of Danish Nature
App Developers,
20. Trail and Mountain Running Vlogging: Dizziness, Disorder
and Joy,
21. Communication and Cultural Significance in Two Danish Outdoor
Facebook Groups: Check Out My Campfire, See My Big Catch I Am an Outdoor
Person!,
22. Navigating Outdoor Activities in Polluted Air: Embodiment of
Particulate Matter and Mobile Applications, PART III: Nature-based Tourism,
23. Using Social Media to Examine Ambassadorship in Tourism,
24. Virtual
Meeting Spaces and Sustainable Arctic Communities: All Who Wander Are Not
Lost,
25. The Absence of Everydayness in Social Media Images from Hiking
Trips: Sharing the Epic,
26. Digital Tools and New Technologies:
Opportunities or Threats to Participatory Sport Events?,
27. Big Data in
Adventure Travel,
28. Reflections on the Impact of the Digital Shift in
Nature-Based Adventure Tourism: Connected Disconnections in the Arctic, PART
IV: Overlappers and Outliers,
29. Equity, Social Media and the Outdoors,
30.
Trekking and Digital Technologies: Nudging Outdoor Habits in New Directions?,
31. Technology Creep and the Beneficial Burden: Cautionary Tales for Outdoor
Educators,
32. Understanding Relations between People, Nature and the
Digital: Why and How to Conduct Non-Digital-Centric Research?,
33.
Hyperreality, Social Media, and Increasing Opportunities for Young People to
Engage with Nature,
34. Outdoor Play Mediated through Pokémon: Facing the
Snorlax,
35. Physical Activity and Health Monitoring with Wearable
Technologies: A New Fitness Trend with Concerns for Reliable Output and Data
Security,
36. Using Cellphones for Visualizing the Social and Environmental
Relations of Community Gardens: Keeping My Eyes Everywhere,
37. Western and
Indigenous Ideas of Sustainability, the Tragedy of the Commons, and Mobile
Technologies: Sustaining our Inner Environments,
38. Mobile Technology,
Social Media, and the Outdoors: Stepping into the Future with Excitement and
Apprehension
Simon Kennedy Beames is Professor of Friluftsliv at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Norway. He has taught outdoor education for more than 30 years, predominantly in Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe. He has published four books with Routledge: Learning Outside the Classroom, Adventurous Learning, Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory, and Outdoor Learning across the Curriculum.
Patrick T. Maher is Professor of Physical and Health Education at Nipissing University, Canada. His research blends outdoor and environmental education, sustainable nature-based tourism, and narratives from the polar regions. Pat is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, as well as the lead of the UArctic Thematic Network on Northern Tourism.
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