Routledge Handbook of Media Geographies

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.

Autorentext

Paul C. Adams is Professor of Geography at the University of Texas at Austin. His research is situated at the intersection of media studies, communication theory and human geography. His work considers how socio-spatial perceptions, representations, actions and infrastructures are intertwined through mediated communications.

Barney Warf is a Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas. His research and teaching interests lie within the broad domain of human geography. His research includes telecommunications and political geography viewed through the lens of political economy and social theory. He edits Geojournal and co-edits Growth and Change.

Inhalt

1. Introduction Part 1: Control and Access to Digital Media 2. Internet Censorship: Shaping the World's Access to Cyberspace 3. Digital Divides 4. Hacking in Digital Environments 5. The Internet Media in China 6. Digital Media and Persons with Visual Impairment or Blindness Part 2: Mass Media 7. Newspapers: Geographic Research Approaches and Future Prospects 8. Fake News: Mapping the Social Relations of Journalism's Legitimation Crisis 9. Film Geography 10. Approaches to the Geographies of Television 11. Geographical Analysis of Streaming Video's Power to Unite and Divide Part 3: Mobile Media and Surveillance 12. Evolving Geographies of Mobile Communication 13. Moving: Mediated Mobility and Placemaking 14. Geographies of Locative Apps 15. Digital Surveillance and Place Part 4: Media and the Politics of Knowledge 16. Race, Ethnicity, and the Media: Absence, Presence, and Socio-Spatial Reverberations 17. Nationalism, Popular Culture, and the Media 18. Eurocentrism/Orientalism in News Media 19. Sex, Gender, and Media 20. Media, Biomes, and Environmental Issues