Geographies of Media and Communication

ISBN-13: 9781405154147 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str.

Paul Adams

Opis

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

Recenzje

In presenting a humbler concept, a process rather than an object (p. 9) Adams book not only seems certain to be
widely read beyond an undergraduate audience, but may be more likely to develop genuinely shared connections across such a broad spectrum of scholarship.   (Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 1 January 2013)

Spis treści

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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O autorze

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).

Blurb

From the invention of the telegraph to the emergence of the Internet, communications technologies have transformed the ways that people and places relate to each other. Geographies of Media and Communication is the first textbook to treat all aspects of geography s variegated encounter with communication.

Connecting geographical ideas with communication theories such as intertextuality, audience–centered theory, and semiotics, Paul C. Adams explores media representations of places, the spatial diffusion of communication technologies, and the power of communication technologies to transform places, and to dictate who does and does not belong in them.