Abstract
ABSTRACT In 2016, Google launched ‘The Hidden Worlds of the National Parks’, an interactive digital platform, hosted through Google Arts & Culture and produced in collaboration with the National Park Service, that offers virtual explorations of some of the most remote parts of several United States National Parks. In this article I argue that Hidden Worlds is more than an innocuous, interactive tour of fascinating geological and biological features. It is a performance ingrained with ideologies that have severe consequences for how we understand social and ecological injustice on the land that is now part of the national parks system. I use an ecocritical approach to examine the immersive experience of Hidden Worlds as performance and ultimately demonstrate that it enacts colonial ecological violence.
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