Editors: Libby Lester and Claire Ellis
The Imaging Nature: Media, Environment and Tourism conference was held on 27-29 June 2004 at Cradle Mountain , Tasmania , Australia and hosted by the Faculty of Arts, University of Tasmania .
Sited on the edge of the Tasmanian World Heritage Wilderness Area, the conference brought together more than 70 international, national and local attendees who examined how the media and tourism industries interact with nature through their use of images, interpretation, news framing and word choices. The conference provided the opportunity for academic researchers, industry practitioners and policy makers across a range of disciplines to explore, among other issues, media representation and commodification of natural environment and wilderness areas. This range of speakers provided a diversity of views and perspectives and these differences are reflected in the wide variety of attached papers in the conference proceedings. Each paper has been blind refereed by two referees.
While many people contributed to the success of the conference, we are especially grateful to Stephanie Pfennigwerth for her editorial role and Damien Collins for technical support. Thanks also to Professor Jan Pakulski and the Faculty of Arts, and the Schools of English, Journalism and European Languages and Sociology and Social Work for administrative support. We are also grateful to all those who refereed the papers that appear here.
Libby Lester and Claire Ellis, Hobart , July 2005.
Foreword
Jamie Kirkpatrick, School of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania .
Feeling Connected .
Marie-Louise Anderson, Department of Fine Arts, Monash University .
Cuddly Koalas, Beautiful Brumbies, Exotic Olives: Fighting for Media Selection in the Attention Economy .
Phil Bagust, School of Communication , Information and New Media, University of South Australia .
Sullivan's Cove: Authentic Place or Theme Park?
Julian Barraclough, School of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania .
Woodchipping the Spirit of Tasmania .
Tim Bonyhady, Centre for Environmental Law and Policy, Australian National University .
Producing Nature(s) and the Tourist Gaze .
Simon Cottle, Media and Communications Program, University of Melbourne .
Illegitimate Natures: Suburban Dreams and the Imagining of Nature in Australia.
Aidan Davison, School of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania .
The Humanity of Wilderness Photography?
Adrian Franklin, School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Tasmania .
The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Just About Everything: The Gold Coast Hinterland as Natural Resource, Media Source and Liminal Space .
Grahame Griffin , School of Arts , Griffith University .
Inscribing Culture on the Landscape .
Roslynn Haynes, University of New South Wales .
Antarctic Travel Writing and the Problematics of the Pristine: Two Australian Novelists' Narratives of Tourist Voyages to Antarctica.
Elizabeth Leane, School of English , Journalism and European Languages, University of Tasmania .
The Trouble with Paradise .
Greg Lehman, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University .
Borneo to Broken Hill: How Our Image of Nature Affects Us .
Brett Pritchard, School of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania .
Imaging Ocean Space: Marine Ecology and the Visual Arts in Tidal Interchange .
Jane Quon, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania .
The Traveller's Eye: The Place of Male and Female Narratives in Nineteenth-Century Travelogues .
Lindsay Simpson, School of Humanities , James Cook University .
More than Wilderness Calendars?: Alternative Perspectives on the Photography of Peter Dombrovskis .
Stuart Solman, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania .
Beautiful Lies: Photography and Wilderness .
David Stephenson, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania .
Between Duchamp and Turing: Strategies for Linkage Between the Visual and the Auditive in Audio-Visual Art .
David Sudmalis, School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania .
Nature Porn: The Emergence and Current Usage of the Term 'Nature-Porn' as a Tool for an Aesthetic Critique of Contemporary Representations of Tasmanian Environment .
Martin Walch, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania .
Designing the Interpretation Interface: Quality Communication Design as an Aspect of Visitor Experience in Nature-Based Tourism .
Margaret Woodward, National Institute of Design, Swinburne University of Technology.
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Convenor Contact Information |
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Libby Lester
Lecturer, Journalism and Media Studies
School of English , Journalism and European Languages
University of Tasmania
Private Bag 82
Hobart TAS 7001
AUSTRALIA
Libby.Lester@utas.edu.au |
Claire Ellis,
Director, Destination Development
Tourism Tasmania
GPO Box 399
Hobart TAS 7001
AUSTRALIA
Claire.Ellis@tourism.tas.gov.au |
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