Geographies Of Media And Communication

Geographies of Media and Communication systematically analyzes the relationship between geography and communication and shows how geographical approaches open up familiar and unfamiliar aspects of communication for analysis and discussion.

Introduces media and communication from a geographical viewpoint

Guides students through familiar themes of the study of communication towards more profound insights

Explores issues such as 'Deaf Geographies', 'The Time-Space of Communication', and 'The Map as an Immutable Mobile'

Organizes themes within a four-part structure: media in spaces, spaces in media, media in places, and places in media

Re-interprets the cultural turn in geography as in fact the sensitization of geographers to a wide range of theories about communication

Paul C. Adams is Associate Professor and Director of Urban Studies, in the Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin. His books include Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies (co-edited with Steven Hoelscher and Karen E. Till) (2001), The Boundless Self: Communication in Physical and Virtual Spaces (2005), and Atlantic Reverberations: French Representations of an American Presidential Election (Ashgate, 2007).

Introduction.

1. From the Spoken Word to the Alphabet.

2. From the Printing Press to the Digital Signal.

3. Communication Flows and Flowmations.

4. Topologies of Communication.

5. Inclusion/Exclusion.

6. Virtuality and Scattered Gatherings.

7. Signs, Symbols and Signals.

8. The Place Image.

9. Internalization/Externalization.

10. Place and the Power of Communication.

11. Traces and Routines.

12. Geographies of Expressive Being-in-Place.

13. Final Thoughts.

Bibliography.

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