Plastic Fossils: Concepts of Deep Time and Enchantment in The Age of Social Media

我的研究的第一部分将通过借鉴与艺术和广告相关的研究，探索魔法、环境行动主义和人类世之间的关系（简·贝内特）。我将借鉴Alan Macpherson， Mark A. Schneider和Jane Bennett的作品来论证像Timothy Morton的“mesh”这样探索深层时间和生态的概念具有迷人的力量，因为它们“将我们暴露在真实的同时又不可思议，怪异，神秘和令人敬畏的事物中”我的研究的第二部分将仔细阅读环境行动主义及其社交媒体元素，以确定在线和现实世界的活动如何结合起来，帮助将这种新思维带到最前沿——探索四个主题——再生、参与、时间性的分层和深度时间的意识。我还将谈到艺术和社交媒体行动主义的变革本质。我的研究的第三部分将推荐一种新的社交媒体理论和研究模式，基于Alan Macpherson的艺术魅力的两个领域的改编，增加第三个传播领域。这将通过为社交媒体理论和研究提出新的思想领域来创造新的知识。

The first part of my research will explore a relationship between enchantment, environmental activism and the Anthropocene by drawing upon research in this area related to the arts and advertising (Jane Bennett). I will draw upon the work of Alan Macpherson, Mark A. Schneider and Jane Bennett to argue that concepts that explore deep time and ecology like Timothy Morton's 'mesh' have the power to enchant because they 'expose us to something both real and at the same time uncanny, weird, mysterious and awesome'.[1] The second part of my research will conduct a close reading of environmental activism and its social media elements to identify how online and real world activity combine to help to bring this new thinking to the forefront - exploring four themes - regeneration, participation, layering of temporalities and awareness of deep time. I will also touch upon the transformative nature of the arts and social media activism. The third part of my research will recommend a new model for social media theory and research based on an adaptation of Alan Macpherson's two spheres of enchantment for the arts, adding a third sphere of communication. This will create new knowledge by suggesting new areas of though for social media theory and research.