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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.
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.
The 2004 US election provided French citizens and their media with
a springboard for re-conceiving 'self' and 'other'. Given its
prominent opposition to recent US foreign policy such as the
invasion of Iraq, a volley of insults and caustic remarks
reverberated between France and the US. French observers linked the
Bush administration's policies to particular groups and regions
within the US, to a democratic deficit, to a perceived threat of US
collapse and to the need for a stronger Europe. By examining how
the French media - newspapers, television, the internet and
scholarly research - represented the election from a critical
geopolitical perspective, this book provides the first major
in-depth study of views of the US in contemporary foreign media.
Although there are human geographers who have previously written on
matters of media and communication, and those in media and
communication studies who have previously written on geographical
issues, this is the first book-length dialogue in which experienced
theorists and researchers from these different fields address each
other directly and engage in conversation across traditional
academic boundaries. The result is a compelling discussion, with
the authors setting out statements of their positions before
responding to the arguments made by others. One significant aspect
of this discussion is a spirited debate about the sort of
interdisciplinary area that might emerge as a focus for future
work. Does the already-established idea of communication geography
offer the best way forward? If so, what would applied or critical
forms of communication geography be concerned to do? Could
communication geography benefit from the sorts of conjunctural
analysis that have been developed in contemporary cultural studies?
Might a further way forward be to imagine an interdisciplinary
field of everyday-life studies, which would draw critically on
non-representational theories of practice and movement? Readers of
Communications/Media/Geographies are invited to join the debate,
thinking through such questions for themselves, and the themes that
are explored in this book (for example, of space, place, meaning,
power, and ethics) will be of interest not only to academics in
human geography and in media and communication studies, but also to
a wider range of scholars from across the humanities and social
sciences.
The 2004 US election provided French citizens and their media with
a springboard for re-conceiving 'self' and 'other'. Given its
prominent opposition to recent US foreign policy such as the
invasion of Iraq, a volley of insults and caustic remarks
reverberated between France and the US. French observers linked the
Bush administration's policies to particular groups and regions
within the US, to a democratic deficit, to a perceived threat of US
collapse and to the need for a stronger Europe. By examining how
the French media - newspapers, television, the internet and
scholarly research - represented the election from a critical
geopolitical perspective, this book provides the first major
in-depth study of views of the US in contemporary foreign media.
Although there are human geographers who have previously written on
matters of media and communication, and those in media and
communication studies who have previously written on geographical
issues, this is the first book-length dialogue in which experienced
theorists and researchers from these different fields address each
other directly and engage in conversation across traditional
academic boundaries. The result is a compelling discussion, with
the authors setting out statements of their positions before
responding to the arguments made by others. One significant aspect
of this discussion is a spirited debate about the sort of
interdisciplinary area that might emerge as a focus for future
work. Does the already-established idea of communication geography
offer the best way forward? If so, what would applied or critical
forms of communication geography be concerned to do? Could
communication geography benefit from the sorts of conjunctural
analysis that have been developed in contemporary cultural studies?
Might a further way forward be to imagine an interdisciplinary
field of everyday-life studies, which would draw critically on
non-representational theories of practice and movement? Readers of
Communications/Media/Geographies are invited to join the debate,
thinking through such questions for themselves, and the themes that
are explored in this book (for example, of space, place, meaning,
power, and ethics) will be of interest not only to academics in
human geography and in media and communication studies, but also to
a wider range of scholars from across the humanities and social
sciences.
This Companion provides an authoritative source for scholars and
students of the nascent field of media geography. While it has deep
roots in the wider discipline, the consolidation of media geography
has started only in the past decade, with the creation of media
geography's first dedicated journal, Aether, as well as the
publication of the sub-discipline's first textbook. However, at
present there is no other work which provides a comprehensive
overview and grounding. By indicating the sub-discipline's
evolution and hinting at its future, this volume not only serves to
encapsulate what geographers have learned about media but also will
help to set the agenda for expanding this type of interdisciplinary
exploration. The contributors-leading scholars in this field,
including Stuart Aitken, Deborah Dixon, Derek McCormack, Barney
Warf, and Matthew Zook-not only review the existing literature
within the remit of their chapters, but also articulate arguments
about where the future might take media geography scholarship. The
volume is not simply a collection of individual offerings, but has
afforded an opportunity to exchange ideas about media geography,
with contributors making connections between chapters and
developing common themes.
This Companion provides an authoritative source for scholars and
students of the nascent field of media geography. While it has deep
roots in the wider discipline, the consolidation of media geography
has started only in the past decade, with the creation of media
geography's first dedicated journal, Aether, as well as the
publication of the sub-discipline's first textbook. However, at
present there is no other work which provides a comprehensive
overview and grounding. By indicating the sub-discipline's
evolution and hinting at its future, this volume not only serves to
encapsulate what geographers have learned about media but also will
help to set the agenda for expanding this type of interdisciplinary
exploration. The contributors-leading scholars in this field,
including Stuart Aitken, Deborah Dixon, Derek McCormack, Barney
Warf, and Matthew Zook-not only review the existing literature
within the remit of their chapters, but also articulate arguments
about where the future might take media geography scholarship. The
volume is not simply a collection of individual offerings, but has
afforded an opportunity to exchange ideas about media geography,
with contributors making connections between chapters and
developing common themes.
Using the body as an axis for geographical theory, this book argues
that communication empowers self to constantly transcend its
physical limits. It urges complete review of personal borders in
space and time based on symbols, signs and signals that redefine
ties to the tangible world, i.e., ""Dear John"" letters, layout of
furniture in rooms, or chronic illness. Paul C. Adams shows how
vehicular transit has altered traditional modalities like walking
or biking while navigation of space and virtual space has led to
""boundary blurring."" He covers transforming moments in
communication from the rise of writing to invention of the printing
press, telephone, and electronic media. To better understand human
geography, he also plumbs the relation of space and time to notions
of romance, identity, and meaning. Citing geographers throughout
the ages and the effects of mercantile, industrial, and current
global economies, The Boundless Self is sure to provoke thought and
theory among geographers, communicators, and scholars alike.
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