Sidney I. Dobrin is Professor of English at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. He is the founding Director/Editor of Trace Innovation Initiative. He is the author and editor of numerous books about ecology, writing, media, and technology.

Digital Environments signifies a shift in how we think about interactions with places and spaces, both "real" and simulated. This collection considers the possibilities of bringing ecocritical approaches into conversation with digital environments. The intent is to initiate a dialogue between two areas of research often understood as disparate. This book was originally published as a special issue of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism.

Introduction 1. Rhetoric and recapture: theorising digital game ecologies through EA's The Sims series 2. Ecocomposition: writing ecologies in digital games 3. Rub trees, crittercams, and GIS: the wired wilderness of Leanne Allison and Jeremy Mendes' Bear 71 4. Reading environment(s): digital humanities meets ecocriticism 5. Signals of nature, prestidigital ecology 6. The sustainability of our digital environments: the language of the upgrade path and e-waste