Bonus: Animals in Media

The Animal Turn

Bonus: Animals in Media

Together with Arukah Animal International, The Animal Turn co-hosted a panel discussion focused on "Animals in Media". Using a video about animalized hierarchies in contagion films as a prompt, Claire Parkinson, Susan McHugh, and Tobias Linné engaged in an open-ended about media, representation, power, and activism.
Date Recorded: 22 May 2024
Claire Parkinson is Professor of Culture, Communication and Screen Studies and Co-director of the Centre for Human Animal Studies at Edge Hill University. Her publications include the books Popular Media and Animals (2011), Beyond Human: From Animality to Transhumanism (2012), Animals, Anthropomorphism and Mediated Encounters (2019) and Animal Activism On and Off Screen (2024). Connect with Claire on Twitter (@molloy_claire).
Susan McHugh, Professor of English at the University of New England, USA, researches and teaches literary, visual, and scientific narratives of cross-species relations. She is the author of three monographs, most recently Love in a Time of Slaughters: Human-Animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction (2019), and coeditor of six edited collections, including Animal Satire (2023). McHugh serves as co-editor of two book series, Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature and Plants and Animals: Interdisciplinary Approaches, as well as Editor-in-Chief of Society & Animals.
Tobias Linné is an assistant professor at the Department of Communication and Media. His research explores veganism and how animals are made accessible for human consumption. In 2012, Tobias launched the course Critical Animals Studies. Animals in Society, Culture and the Media and he was later the coordinator for the project “Exploring ‘the Animal Turn’: Changing

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Hoofdstukken

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Animalized Hierarchies in Popular Contagion Films (00:06:48)

3. Tension between animals and contagion (00:11:54)

4. Boundary Crossing and Ableism (00:21:00)

5. What is Media? Popular Media? (00:24:29)

6. Animals and Media – Why should anyone care? (00:33:50)

7. Material Impact (00:42:00)

8. Literacy and Animals in Context (00:52:00)

9. Harnessing the Media for the benefit of animals (00:57:50)

10. Media Ethics and Animals (01:00:00)

11. [Ad] Wild Times: Wildlife Education (01:11:46)

12. (Cont.) Media Ethics and Animals (01:12:25)

13. Video Games and Imaginative Work (01:15:38)

14. Impact of Consumers (01:23:38)

15. Ambassador Species (01:28:38)

16. Media for Children (01:34:38)

17. Capitalism and Consumption (01:38:38)

18. Talking and Speaking Animals (01:42:38)

19. Wrap up (01:53:38)

20. Credits (02:01:18)