This Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of media geography,
focusing on a range of different media viewed through the lenses of
human geography and media theory. It addresses the spatial
practices and processes associated with both old and new media,
considering "media" not just as technologies and infrastructures,
but also as networks, systems and assemblages of things that come
together to enable communication in the real world. With
contributions from academics specializing in geography and media
studies, the Routledge Handbook of Media Geographies summarizes the
recent developments in the field and explores key questions and
challenges affecting various groups, such as women, minorities, and
persons with visual impairment. It considers geographical aspects
of disruptive media uses such as hacking, fake news, and racism.
Written in an approachable style, chapters consider geographies of
users, norms, rules, laws, values, attitudes, routines, customs,
markets, and power relations. They shed light on how mobile media
make users vulnerable to tracking and surveillance but also
facilitate innovative forms of mobility, space perception and
placemaking. Structured in four distinct sections centered around
"control and access to digital media," "mass media," "mobile media
and surveillance" and "media and the politics of knowledge," the
Handbook explores digital divides and other manifestations of the
uneven geographies of power. It also includes an overview of the
alternative social media universe created by the Chinese
government. Media geography is a burgeoning field of study that
lies at the intersections of various social sciences, including
human geography, political science, sociology, anthropology,
communication/media studies, urban studies, and women and gender
studies. Academics and students across these fields will greatly
benefit from this Handbook.
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