An examination of various environmental justice case studies suggests that historically, mass media has brought attention to immediate issues and developed a shared narrative which then generates public outrage and protest that pressures local governments into resolving the issue, making mass media a key source of momentum for environmental justice movements. However, current coverage of environmental injustice is unrepresentative of the issue’s prevalence and excludes the perspective of the affected communities. To better support future environmental justice advocacy, mass media organizations must increase the amount of news about environmental injustices to elevate the issue’s importance in the public eye, frame these stories as injustices to provoke audience action, and increase newsroom and source diversity to avoid counterproductive portrayals of the victims of environmental injustice.

Subcommunities such as Women in Red may not offer a perfect solution to Wikipedia’s gender gap, especially as they face potential disruption from newcomers, but they are a promising step in the right direction. At the very least, subcommunities focused on creating content related to women’s topics can employ design suggestions such as clearly listing tasks, tracking progress towards a goal, and celebrating individual accomplishments publicly to support newcomers and encourage participation. Such subcommunities support Wikipedia’s goal of lowering the barriers to contribution for newcomers, increasing coverage of women’s topics, and could also expose male-identifying participants in the project to a more friendly editing culture.

We present a ‘weighted sum model’ which captures many values not easily accounted for by existing modes of environmental valuation, creating an ecosystem of values that becomes the basis for the ecological ethic. The ecological ethic incentivizes preservation of the environment not through appeals to human-dominated moral standards but through the more capitalist-palatable concept of value growth, while taking seriously the considerations of non-human agents. Such a valuation is compatible with a Kantian ethics in which not only rational beings, but also all plants and animals are valued as ends-in-themselves. Yet the ethic allows for practical calculations that take into account the values of each agent involved, regardless of species, when deciding between competing actions.

Photographic seeing “[wrenches] things from their context (to see them in a fresh way),” not only failing to ascertain or provide reality but intentionally overwriting and distorting it. In viewing Juliana and his search for Aspern’s papers photographically, the editor sees the past as an antagonist: disturbed by the fact that both Juliana and Aspern can never be who they once were, and refusing to familiarize himself with the present- or future-Juliana because she does not conform to his ideal image, the editor clings to the fragments he constructs of the past-Juliana and past-Aspern. […] The Aspern Papers conveys the tragedy of photographic seeing: “looking at reality as an array of potential photographs—creates estrangement from, rather than union with, nature,” as bestowing value upon and revisiting images of the past can only imply ever more future distance between ourselves and the fragmented beloved.