Personal Social Space : Constitution in a Transition Society

ISBN-13: 9783639151312 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 184 str.

Anu Masso

Opis

Over the last decades, social space as a field ofstudy has developed rapidly. Theemergence and accessibility of digital informationand communication technology networks and theblurring of former geographical barriers are changesthat the media studies must cope with. This book, therefore, aims to contribute to thediscussions on this new and exciting field geographies of communications. The objective of thiswork is to trace the socio-cultural transition inpost-Soviet Estonia through the prism of personalsocial space. This work draws on various theoriesfrom sociology, media and communication studies, andcultural geography. The empirical studies made withinthis work could be divided into three parts. Thefirst part concentrates on the general tendencies inspatial relationships and on opening of personalsocial space in a transition society. The second partinvestigates geo-cultural solidarities. The thirdpart concentrates on the role of foreign languagesshaping personal social space. This book should be especially useful toprofessionals in Media and Communication fields andin Geography, or anyone else who may be interested inissues of social space.

O autorze

Anu Masso, PhD in media and communication, is lecturer at
Institute of Journalism and Communication at University of Tartu,
Estonia.