Wildlife in the Digital Anthropocene: Examining human-animal relations through surveillance technologies

Digital surveillance technologies enable a range of publics to observe the private lives wild animals. Publics can now encounter wildlife from their smartphones, home computers, and other digital devices. These generate public-wildlife relations that produce intimacy, but also summon into care, commodification, control. Via three case studies, this paper examines biopolitical implications such technologically mediated human-animal relations, which are becoming increasingly common complex in Anthropocene. Each our studies involves different rationale deployed by scientific-managerial regime: (1) clampdown (wild boar); (2) care (golden eagle); (3) control (moose). these modalities biopower, however, is entangled with other, inaugurating between publics, scientists, wildlife. We show how predetermine certain representations encouraging particular gazes, have negative repercussions for both offline spaces. However, there remains work be done understand positive inaugurated mediation. Here, departing much extant literature on we highlight some potentials, notably: voice, immediacy, agency.