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NETWORK INVITATIONS
Privacy/Surveillance
Language Extinction
Wildlife Collaring
Childhood/Adolescence
Self-Authoring
Military/Weaponry
Open Category
CONTRIBUTOR GUIDELINES
NETWORK CONTRIBUTORS
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Some of the most important questions in a wireless age expose commonly held assumptions that just don't hold up. Most of us believe, for example, that the world around us would not have "gone wireless" over the past several decades if EMF science did not understand how EMFs affect people, plants, animals, and ecologies. Tacitly, we assume that such real world concerns would be the primary focus of EMF science—and that public agencies governing our interests in EMF health would have required that focus. Yet, as we discover, we are mistaken.
Likewise, most of us tend to believe that the greater number of interactions available to us via wireless technologies is tied to greater freedom of choice. Tacitly, we assume that by expanding our individual reach into the world (and the world's reach back to us), we are more conscious of people, places, and our selves. Yet, as we discover, we are also mistaken.
Nonetheless, by asking and exploring such questions, we can learn more about the world than would have been possible had wireless technologies never been developed.
It is highly unlikely that most of us would seriously pursue an understanding—even in basic terms—of the fields of energies we live within. We would have little reason, and few techniques, for exploring the bio-electrical conditions in which life thrives or fails to thrive.
Similarly, we would not have been as likely to perceive the value of our lived experiences in body and place. Our choice to respond to a living world, as opposed to an online world, would not have occurred to us. For the first time, our experiences in nature, with one another, and within our inner, private selves can focus into a depth of complexity, beauty, and feeling that we may have only previously taken for granted.
The kind of reasoning we discover through such questioning is far more likely to inspire us into being more alive within our own lives—and, to inform the connections we do make through wireless technologies. The conditions in which life flourishes become far more apparent than if we'd merely examined wireless technologies through risk or cost-benefit scenarios. Indeed, pursuits of such questioning are incalculable in their power to open the world to us and to who we are in it.
RESEARCH >
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LEAD CONTRIBUTORS
LOUIS SLESIN, PhD
RESEARCH & POLITICS
DAVID CARPENTER, MD
PUBLIC HEALTH
ANDREW
MARINO, PhD, JD
EMF SCIENCE
EDWARD CASEY, PhD
ECO-PHENOMENOLOGY
MICHAEL
WARBURTON, JD
PUBLIC TRUST DOCTRINE
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LANGUAGE IN PLACE
LANGUAGE EXTINCTIONS
ECOLOGICAL EXTINCTIONS
WAYS OF KNOWING
NETWORK INVITATIONS: IFI encourages you to propose original works of publishable quality.
We are looking for: CGI, flash, film, or interactive photo essays documenting geographic correspondences between linguistic and ecological changes over the past century.
And, visuals dramatizing the rapid proliferation of communication and internet technologies worldwide, from wired to wireless.
Questions to Pursue: Are ecological losses tied to losing the knowledge of a place—its ecology—through language losses? What role do wireless technologies play in cultural changes, linguistic changes? How do those changes reveal tribal epistemologies (what counts as knowledge, who holds it, how it is transferred and modified), and the larger, global human repertoire of "ways of knowing"? How do the Jivaro move through the rainforest at night, hunting through a 3-D grid of sound? How do New Guinea's Highlanders communicate through an intuitive rapport? How do Pacific Islanders "read" the Pacific with a sophistication that exceeds western science? Where do we find cultural diversity preserved in diaspora? How do adaptations allow for bio-cultural refinements? How might "ways of knowing" be explored through wireless technologies and achieve a new diversity in global culture?
Reference: Interview with Suzanne Romaine, author of Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages
Contributor Submissions: See Guidelines
WIRELESS WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
TRANSMITTERS AND COLLARS
OCEAN/COASTAL RADAR
WILD V. MANAGED
EMF EXPOSURES
NETWORK INVITATIONS:
IFI encourages you to propose original works of publishable quality.
We are looking for: CGI, digital film, or photo essay documenting the rapid increase in number and kind of wireless technologies used by U.S. and global wildlife management.
And, visuals dramatizing the rapid proliferation of communication and internet technologies worldwide, from wired to wireless, in the 20th—21st centuries.
Questions to Pursue: How many animals are being tracked by radio frequency transmissions and/or satellite in the U.S. and globally? Does the EMF/radio transmission affect, for example, a bird's orientation for migration? Does an embedded transmitter in the bill of a bird affect its attractiveness to a mate and reproduction? While data collection may be crucial to management, what does it mean to tag wild creatures? Is wildness being sacrificed? Is the loss of wildness in nature tied to a loss of wildness in human beings? Does surveillance exacerbate that loss for nature and humanity? What bio-cultural choices are before us?
How does ELF sonar affect life in the ocean—fish, dolphins, whales? At what range? How much sonar is introduced into the oceans on a daily basis? During naval exercises? Analyze EMF from 1,500+ coastal radar being introduced to the California coastline for ocean management purposes.
Contributor Submissions: See Guidelines
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