Geographies of Media and Communication
Critical Introductions to Geography
1. Auflage Februar 2009
288 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Geographies of Media and Communication
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.
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.
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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)
