TY - JOUR
T1 - Emergent Sonification
T2 - Using Computational Media to Communicate the Anthropocene in ByrdBot
AU - Coleman, Miles C.
AU - Simon, Brandon
AU - Pierce, Matt
AU - Schutte, Charles A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2023.
PY - 2023/4
Y1 - 2023/4
N2 - This research note describes ByrdBot, a science communication tool that leverages bird songs to communicate data regarding human impacts on the environment. With ByrdBot, listeners can compare simulated soundscapes of 1970, 2017, and 2065 to immediately, and viscerally, experience decades of past or projected future environmental change. The communication tactic of ByrdBot—what we call emergent sonification—is discussed as one that capitalizes on computational media to facilitate attunement to nonhuman voices and, subsequently, to offer an affective grasping of the impacts of such phenomena as habitat destruction and climate change on wildlife displacement and loss.
AB - This research note describes ByrdBot, a science communication tool that leverages bird songs to communicate data regarding human impacts on the environment. With ByrdBot, listeners can compare simulated soundscapes of 1970, 2017, and 2065 to immediately, and viscerally, experience decades of past or projected future environmental change. The communication tactic of ByrdBot—what we call emergent sonification—is discussed as one that capitalizes on computational media to facilitate attunement to nonhuman voices and, subsequently, to offer an affective grasping of the impacts of such phenomena as habitat destruction and climate change on wildlife displacement and loss.
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U2 - 10.1177/10755470231165941
DO - 10.1177/10755470231165941
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:85159120952
SN - 1075-5470
VL - 45
SP - 252
EP - 266
JO - Science Communication
JF - Science Communication
IS - 2
ER -