{"id":2076,"date":"2023-04-25T20:34:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T20:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=2076"},"modified":"2023-04-25T20:35:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T20:35:05","slug":"alenda-chang-playing-nature","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/alenda-chang-playing-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Alenda Chang &#8211; Playing Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alenda Chang, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at University of Calidornia Santa Barbara (USA), discussed her book\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/playing-nature\">Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(University of Minnesota Press, 2019) on Monday, 16 November 2020 in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arguing that video games need to be understood as part of a cultural response to the growing ecological crisis,&nbsp;<em>Playing Nature<\/em>&nbsp;seeds conversations around key environmental science concepts and terms. 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