- The University of Arizona
School of Geography Development and Environment
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Chris Lukinbeal
University of Arizona, School of Geography and Development, Faculty Member
- My research (https://sites.google.com/view/lukinbeal/home) investigates the intersection of cultural geography with c... moreMy research (https://sites.google.com/view/lukinbeal/home) investigates the intersection of cultural geography with cartography, landscape, media, and visual culture. I am a founding editor for the book series Media Geography at Mainz and an Associate Editor for the journal Geohumanities. https://sites.google.com/view/lukinbeal/homeedit
Cartography is one of the oldest forms of media. With cartography and media, meaning, ideology, and power are habitually arbitrated across and through space and time. Media has an underlying mapping impulse – a proclivity to comprehend... more
Cartography is one of the oldest forms of media. With cartography and media, meaning, ideology, and power are habitually arbitrated across and through space and time. Media has an underlying mapping impulse – a proclivity to comprehend itself and be rendered comprehensible through metaphors of topologies, networks, and flows that lead to the constant evacuation of spaces in order to produce places of communication. Both media and cartography are never static, but instead, are ongoing scopic and discursive regimes that continually make and remake how we understand and interact with our world. Developments in mobile computing have not only increased the pace, flow, and interaction of media across space, but also the ubiquity, and thus the taken-for-grantedness, of mapping. Owing to the practices of the neogeographers of the Geoweb, media requires geographical situatedness in which and for which media can take place. Media's Mapping Impulse is an interdisciplinary collection that explores the relationship between cartography, geospatial technologies, and locative media on the one hand, and new and traditional media forms such as social media, mobile apps, and film on the other.
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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-017-9969-0 This is the first comprehensive volume to explore and engage with current trends in Geographies of Media research. It reviews how conceptualizations of mediated geographies have... more
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-017-9969-0
This is the first comprehensive volume to explore and engage with current trends in Geographies of Media research. It reviews how conceptualizations of mediated geographies have evolved. Followed by an examination of diverse media contexts and locales, the book illustrates key issues through the integration of theoretical and empirical case studies, and reflects on the future challenges and opportunities faced by scholars in this field. The contributions by an international team of experts in the field, address theoretical perspectives on mediated geographies, methodological challenges and opportunities posed by geographies of media, the role and significance of different media forms and organizations in relation to socio-spatial relations, the dynamism of media in local-global relations, and in-depth case studies of mediated locales. Given the theoretical and methodological diversity of this book, it will provide an important reference for geographers and other interdisciplinary scholars working in cultural and media studies, researchers in environmental studies, sociology, visual anthropology, new technologies, and political science, who seek to understand and explore the interconnections of media, space and place through the examples of specific practices and settings.
This is the first comprehensive volume to explore and engage with current trends in Geographies of Media research. It reviews how conceptualizations of mediated geographies have evolved. Followed by an examination of diverse media contexts and locales, the book illustrates key issues through the integration of theoretical and empirical case studies, and reflects on the future challenges and opportunities faced by scholars in this field. The contributions by an international team of experts in the field, address theoretical perspectives on mediated geographies, methodological challenges and opportunities posed by geographies of media, the role and significance of different media forms and organizations in relation to socio-spatial relations, the dynamism of media in local-global relations, and in-depth case studies of mediated locales. Given the theoretical and methodological diversity of this book, it will provide an important reference for geographers and other interdisciplinary scholars working in cultural and media studies, researchers in environmental studies, sociology, visual anthropology, new technologies, and political science, who seek to understand and explore the interconnections of media, space and place through the examples of specific practices and settings.
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This book addresses questions surrounding the constructions of space, culture, society, identity and representation. The geography of cinema extends beyond the screen, director and audience, to include the wider industrial and political... more
This book addresses questions surrounding the constructions of space, culture, society, identity and representation. The geography of cinema extends beyond the screen, director and audience, to include the wider industrial and political complex of the cultural economy. In this sense, culture can be viewed as an economic commodity set within the broader frame of globalization and postmodernism. A cinematic world occupies a territory between our citys streets, the Cineplex, the TV set, and our geographical imagination and identity. These contexts invite inquiries into the production, distribution, exhibition, and consumption of film as well as global cinema, hapticalities of viewing, critical political economies, and cinematic ethno-graphies. This collection provides unique and eclectic insights into the exciting and emerging subfield of film geography.
Research Interests: Semiotics, Christianity, Social Theory, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, and 129 moreSocial Geography, German Studies, Gender Studies, International Relations, Ontology, Aesthetics, Visual Studies, Visual Anthropology, Media Studies, Feminist Theory, Film Studies, Film Theory, Television Studies, Middle East Studies, Mobility/Mobilities, Drugs And Addiction, Transnationalism, Border Studies, Popular Culture, Postcolonial Studies, Geopolitics, Heterotopia, Schizophrenia, Dramaturgy, Arabic, Poststructuralism, Community Development, Immigration, Telecommunications, Phenomenology, Critical Race Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Ideology, Social Justice, Autobiography, Surveillance Studies, Civil Rights, Philip K Dick, Gilles Deleuze, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Roland Barthes, Science Fiction, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Jamaica, Tobacco, Liminality, Brazil, Bonaventure, Memory Studies, Michel Foucault, Film History, Second World War, Social Exclusion, Migration Studies, Muslims in Europe, Fredric Jameson, Diaspora Studies, World War II, Democracy, Film Production, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Cinema, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, History of photography, Siegfried Kracauer, Rhizomes, 'Third Cinema' Theory and Third World Radical Films, Art and Independent Cinema, Landscape, Documentary Film, Film Aesthetics, British Cinema (Film Studies), British Film Institute, Affect (Cultural Theory), Nomadism, Homi Bhabha (Cultural Theory), Jean Baudrillard, Television, Cinematography, Citizenship, Nostalgia, The Third Reich, Film and Media Studies, Turkish-German Studies, Berlin, Che Guevara, Territoriality, Representation, Imperialism, Cultural Differences, Media Geography, Nazism, Sergei Eisenstein, Bavarian History, Cultural Landscape, Bodies, Virgil, Other, BBC, Flaneur, German Film, Hotels, Kentucky History, Memento, Film Studies, Islam and Middle East Studies, Liminal Space, Post-War Reconstruction, Diorama, Textual analysis, History of Cinema, German television, Blade Runner, Austria, Geography and film, Carribean Literature, Coen Brothers, Acculteration Theory and Practice, Homeland, PBS, Third Cinema, Georges Melies, A Scanner Darkly, Post war Germany, Belonging and Citizenship, A Thousand Plateaus, and Flanerie
Research Interests: Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Geography, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, and 35 moreSocial Geography, Urban Geography, Regional Geography, Area Studies, Tourism Studies, Film Studies, Film Theory, Television Studies, Tourism Planning and Policy, Space and Place, Film Analysis, Heritage Tourism, Philosophy of Film, Tourism Geography, Reality television, Urban Studies, Cultural Tourism, Television And Social Change, Critical Geography, Cult television, Urban Sociology, Television History, Film Aesthetics, California History, Television, Los Angeles, Tourism Impacts, Film and Media Studies, Place, California, Media Geography, Geography and film, Film and Television, Film and television studies, and Cinema and Television
With this essay I seek to show one way to examine this theoretical junction; this meeting ground of two conceptions of space. My argument is simply that the uneven development and dispersion of the film industry produces an uneven... more
With this essay I seek to show one way to examine this theoretical junction; this meeting ground of two conceptions of space. My argument is simply that the uneven development and dispersion of the film industry produces an uneven depiction of material space. Thus, the production of representational space is not a mirror of material space, but rather a product of the politics and economics of a specific industry. Consequently, if we wish to understand what we see on television and in the cinema we must begin by understanding how these images arise and where they originate. I first investigate how the demise of the studio industry changed the content of representational space. I then examine the top five cinematic cities in North America. A cinematic city is one which accounts for a high volume of on location filming. These cities dominate the economic activities related to the film production industry and are the most frequently depicted geographies in representational space.
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The American Cinematic Landscape (ACL) is commonly conceived as a text or product and as a practice that is made @work. Reading the cinematic landscape as a text has proven to be the most common avenue of engagement where it is a... more
The American Cinematic Landscape (ACL) is commonly conceived as a text or product and as a practice that is made @work. Reading the cinematic landscape as a text has proven to be the most common avenue of engagement where it is a prewritten, inscribed cultural product to be theoretically interpreted. The idea of “@work” follows Don Mitchell’s argument that landscape is a product of human labor, and in the context of cinema @work is about building, staging, framing, and digitally replicating locational imagery for consumption. Narrative cinema is a constant process of placemaking: the conversion of location imagery harvested from production centers to ground diegetic spaces. The American cinematic landscape is always becoming and will continue as long as there are crews out filming. This chapter provides a tour of the ACL beginning with the primary production center of NYC, then moving to LA and the TMZ (30-mile zone) and onto film ranches and the legacy of Old Tucson Studio. Cities and regions since the 1990s have been chasing the dream of Hollywood through Motion Picture Incentives (MPI). Many cinematic cities have gained and lost prominence, including Vancouver, San Diego, Wilmington, Albuquerque, New Orleans, and Atlanta.
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What constitutes a cinematic city? Investigations have queried the role of cities in film, the relation between proto-cinematic devices and cities, and cities as backlots for film production. Whereas hermeneutical analysis tends to frame... more
What constitutes a cinematic city? Investigations have queried the role of cities in film, the relation between proto-cinematic devices and cities, and cities as backlots for film production. Whereas hermeneutical analysis tends to frame cinema as representational, cinema reflects more-than-representational activities of the production and consumption of film. The formation of a cinematic city is a complex and ongoing production of a topological web of networks and practices. It is also constituted by locational image facts that remain invariant to the transformations of turning filmed sights/sites, into narrative scenes. The cinematic city is constituted through an ontogenetic landscape at work. This chapter contests the notion that cinematic cites are only worldly cities with dense iconographic networks of recognizable locations. Using geographic information system analysis, in-depth interviews, and fieldwork, this chapter examines how cinematic topologies are created and maintained through social networks and filmed sites which produce unique backlots within the city. 3,790 filmed sites were geocoded from documents provided by the San Diego Film Commission which reflects most of the production that occurred between 1985 and 2005. The topological metaphor is a useful tool to engage the cinematic city as a more-than-representational series of ongoing practices.
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In this chapter we combine new archival research and GIS technologies to visualize the rich history of production at Old Tucson Studios. This detailed look at how and why filmmakers chose specific Western locations not only sheds light on... more
In this chapter we combine new archival research and GIS technologies to visualize the rich history of production at Old Tucson Studios. This detailed look at how and why filmmakers chose specific Western locations not only sheds light on Hollywood filmmaking, but also the construction of the mythical iconography that still shapes the cultural meaning of the American Western landscape. The following chapter addresses the thorny nest of methodologies required to put a wealth of archival documents, drone imagery, and GIS modeling to productive use. In order to illustrate and analyze why and how an isolated outpost in Arizona thrived as a production hub for Westerns and television series from roughly 1955 to 1995, we transect the fields of geography, landscape studies, film studies, urban studies, architecture, digital humanities, and to a certain extent, archeology, geology, and environmental studies. Joshua Gleich will address how production data and documents will shape the model and meaning of filmmaking at Old Tucson Studios; Chris Lukinbeal will detail how several ways of mapping the surrounding environment of Western settings reveals the logic and impact Hollywood image-making.
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The American Cinematic Landscape (ACL) is commonly conceived as a text or product and as a practice that is made @work. Reading the cinematic landscape as a text has proven to be the most common avenue of engagement where it is a... more
The American Cinematic Landscape (ACL) is commonly conceived as a text or product and as a practice that is made @work. Reading the cinematic landscape as a text has proven to be the most common avenue of engagement where it is a prewritten, inscribed cultural product to be theoretically interpreted. The idea of “@work” follows Don Mitchell’s argument that landscape is a product of human labor, and in the context of cinema @work is about building, staging, framing, and digitally replicating locational imagery for consumption. Narrative cinema is a constant process of placemaking: the conversion of location imagery harvested from production centers to ground diegetic spaces. The American cinematic landscape is always becoming and will continue as long as there are crews out filming. This chapter provides a tour of the ACL beginning with the primary production center of NYC, then moving to LA and the TMZ (30-mile zone) and onto film ranches and the legacy of Old Tucson Studio. Cities and regions since the 1990s have been chasing the dream of Hollywood through Motion Picture Incentives (MPI). Many cinematic cities have gained and lost prominence, including Vancouver, San Diego, Wilmington, Albuquerque, New Orleans, and Atlanta.
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A sustained inquiry into film by geographers began in the 1980s. Films were studied as cultural texts and as cultural commodities. Film as text assumes that it is authored, read, and interpreted according to the unique positionalities and... more
A sustained inquiry into film by geographers began in the 1980s. Films were studied as cultural texts and as cultural commodities. Film as text assumes that it is authored, read, and interpreted according to the unique positionalities and contexts of viewing. Geographers deploying the author-text-reader (ATR) model tend to operate from a variety of anti-essentialist standpoints and have used this approach to answer questions about how the internal meanings of films are produced and consumed, paying particular attention to issues such as the city, mobility, landscape, gender, sexuality, and geopolitics. Conversely, geographers interested in film as a cultural commodity, an object of symbolic value circulating within the global economy, may choose instead to follow a production-product-distribution-consumption approach. According to this model, the significance of cinematic goods cannot be wholly understood by focusing on the film texts’ internal meaning but must be examined in relation to the economic conditions of their production and consumption. Film is therefore an assemblage of textual and extratextual processes and actors. Research in this area has focused on issues such as the industrial complex of film production, distribution, and consumption; the transnational practices of film industries following the information revolution of the 1970s; and the ensuing cultural hegemony of Hollywood on the global stage. Although the continued use of the text metaphor has been the subject of debate since the turn of the twenty-first century, this approach and its attention to film content has come to prevail in film geography research and hence constitutes a large portion of the works selected in this article. There has been a rising interest in cinematic cartography with some special journal collections published as notable books, including Tom Conley’s Cartographic Cinema in 2007 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press); a special issue on cinematic cartography (Cartographic Journal 46, no. 1 [2009]), edited by Sébastien Caquard and D. R. Fraser Taylor; Film, Mobility and Urban Space: A Cinematic Geography of Liverpool by Les Roberts in 2012from Liverpool University Press; the special collection “#Mapping” in NECSUS 18, no. 2 (2018) by Avezzù, Castro, and Fidotta; and
Media’s Mapping Impulse by Lukinbeal et al. in 2019 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag). More recent publications are reflective of place-based film studies where landscapes are produced or consumed. A special issue, Doing Film Geography (Volume 87, Supplement 1), with fifteen papers was edited by Chris Lukinbeal and Elisabeth Sommerlad for GeoJournal in 2022. The editors’ work reflects a growing movement toward empiric place-based fieldwork paired with a variety of analytic techniques, such as hermeneutics, economics, cartographic, and nonrepresentational theories, to name a few.
Media’s Mapping Impulse by Lukinbeal et al. in 2019 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag). More recent publications are reflective of place-based film studies where landscapes are produced or consumed. A special issue, Doing Film Geography (Volume 87, Supplement 1), with fifteen papers was edited by Chris Lukinbeal and Elisabeth Sommerlad for GeoJournal in 2022. The editors’ work reflects a growing movement toward empiric place-based fieldwork paired with a variety of analytic techniques, such as hermeneutics, economics, cartographic, and nonrepresentational theories, to name a few.
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Motivated by a need to engage students in the critical evaluation of visual information, and by a desire to teach students how to use digital technologies as a way of exploring and expressing geographical constructs and processes, the... more
Motivated by a need to engage students in the critical evaluation of visual information, and by a desire to teach students how to use digital technologies as a way of exploring and expressing geographical constructs and processes, the geography departments at Arizona's three universities sought and received funding from the Arizona Board of Regents for learner-centered curricular development organized around the theme of "Mediated Geographies. " In this paper, we explore how critical pedagogy and learner-centered education strategies were used to engage students in semester-long documentary and photo essay projects. Some of the student projects discussed in this essay are posted for viewing at the project Web site: http://geography.asu.edu/lukinbeal/mediated.html. This project was funded by the Arizona Board of Regents' (ABOR) Learner Centered Education Grant Program. For more information about ABOR's program, see
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Rapid urbanization has led to an ever increasing proportion of our population living in cities and surrounding suburbs. With this increase, the actual and perceived quality of intensely humanized urban and suburban landscapes grows in... more
Rapid urbanization has led to an ever increasing proportion of our population living in cities and surrounding suburbs. With this increase, the actual and perceived quality of intensely humanized urban and suburban landscapes grows in importance. As humans we long for a habitat, a landscape, in which we can develop our full potential. How well do suburban landscapes currently meet our needs? This paper presents an overview of three suburban landscape types in the East Bay. Recurring and unique elements found in each type are discussed. Views on suburban landscapes are reviewed. And, finally, we argue that these landscapes are much more than "walled gardens", not only are they integral parts of suburbia, but, as a whole comprise an American symbol.
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Cartography is one of the oldest forms of media. With cartography and media, meaning, ideology, and power are habitually arbitrated across and through space and time. Media has an underlying mapping impulse – a proclivity to comprehend... more
Cartography is one of the oldest forms of media. With cartography and media, meaning, ideology, and power are habitually arbitrated across and through space and time. Media has an underlying mapping impulse – a proclivity to comprehend itself and be rendered comprehensible through metaphors of topologies, networks, and flows that lead to the constant evacuation of spaces in order to produce places of communication. Both media and cartography are never static, but instead, are ongoing scopic and discursive regimes that continually make and remake how we understand and interact with our world. Developments in mobile computing have not only increased the pace, flow, and interaction of media across space, but also the ubiquity, and thus the taken-for-grantedness, of mapping. Owing to the practices of the neogeographers of the Geoweb, media requires geographical situatedness in which and for which media can take place. Media's Mapping Impulse is an interdisciplinary collection that e...
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In this paper, I engage in a cartographic analysis of 500 Days of Summer. I use the concepts of the map and tour and relate them to cartography as representation and practice. Where a focus on cartography as a representation enhances a... more
In this paper, I engage in a cartographic analysis of 500 Days of Summer. I use the concepts of the map and tour and relate them to cartography as representation and practice. Where a focus on cartography as a representation enhances a textual analysis of a film, cartography as practice emphasises the map production process. Central to the map production process is geocoding, ground truthing, and indexing. Finally, this paper offers a cartographic tour of the film that provides an example of how a processual approach to cinematic cartography can be put into practice to produce an affective geovisualisation.
Research Interests: Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Social Geography, Urban Geography, Cartography, and 15 moreMedia Studies, New Media, Media and Cultural Studies, Art, Film Studies, Film Theory, Film Analysis, Cinema, Film Aesthetics, Los Angeles, Film and Media Studies, Media Geography, Los Angeles culture and history, Geography and film, and AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY
What constitutes a cinematic city has been debated by scholars in urban studies, film studies, and geography since the late 1990s. Where initial investigations queried the role of cities in film, critical readings point to a radically... more
What constitutes a cinematic city has been debated by scholars in urban studies, film studies, and geography since the late 1990s. Where initial investigations queried the role of cities in film, critical readings point to a radically different understanding of the ontology of representation: films are not merely images but actively (de)construct daily life and the world as we know it. While the most common mode of inquiry to the cinematic city has been through textual analysis, others have sought to engage the cinematic city through different means. These include dialectics, simulacra, haptics, and historical interpretations.
Research Interests: Social Theory, Geography, Human Geography, Urban Geography, Media Studies, and 15 moreArt, Architecture, Film Studies, Dialectology, Film Analysis, Critical Social Theory, Architectural History, Haptics, Urban And Regional Planning, Regional Studies, Film and Media Studies, Hollywood, Imagined Interactions, Architecture and Public Spaces, and movie theater
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In 2005 a screenwriting book was published showing what was already known: Most Hollywood movies are the same. What separated this book, Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat, from its predecessors, was the absolute specificity of Snyder’s formula,... more
In 2005 a screenwriting book was published showing what was already known: Most Hollywood movies are the same. What separated this book, Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat, from its predecessors, was the absolute specificity of Snyder’s formula, as well as its widespread adoption by the film industry. Rather than providing general advice on how to develop a unique and innovative three-act story, Snyder constructed a precise formula of 15 “beats,” or specific events, that not only must happen but that must happen on the same page of every script. This formula, known as “Save the Cat,” has now become synonymous with Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. Similar to the introduction of continuity editing to filmmaking at the beginning of cinema’s history, this formula prefigures the scope of possibility within which filmmaking can operate, subconsciously training viewers with each subsequent movie what to expect and when. “Save the Cat” has become cinema’s lingua franca, or common language, allowing Hollywood to transcend international cultural and linguistic differences. This lingua franca of the silver screen has never been more vital to Hollywood’s success: With the turn of the new millennium, international ticket sales – especially in the everexpanding markets of China, Russia, and Brazil –dominate American box office revenues. Of note, these new foreign markets are not buying tickets for all types of American films, but are mainly focusing on spectacle-driven action and science fiction movies in 3D and IMAX formats. To understand the role of Hollywood’s lingua franca on the industry’s global expansion or, rather, the effect that global expansion is having on the types of narratives that Hollywood producers are interested in making, Transformers 4: Age of Extinction, a recent blockbuster that peaked in China, is used here as a case study. Through the use of this case study, the application of the Save the Cat formula is demonstrated and the role that geography plays within its beats is noted. Through this analysis it is easy to see how Save the Cat works as an architecture through which Hollywood is able to construct a lingua franca that, in this case, reaches US, Chinese, and international filmgoers the world over.
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While geographers have long considered the meaning of place, space, and landscape, they have only recently turned their attention toward the concept of scale. During the 1990s and 2000s it was taken up in the “scale debates” in human... more
While geographers have long considered the meaning of place, space, and landscape, they have only recently turned their attention toward the concept of scale. During the 1990s and 2000s it was taken up in the “scale debates” in human geography, but these debates engaged very little with the scientific geography, cartography, or GIS communities. While no consensus was ever reached about what exactly scale means, its degree of usefulness, or whether it even exists, the continued use of scale has nevertheless become stigmatized or even blacklisted from the vernacular of human geography. I argue that what was missing from the scale debates was that cartographic scale is not the oldest form of scale; rather, scale as a mentifact predates its use in cartography. This point is important because it exposes scale’s two histories: one as a mentifact tied to the human condition, justice, and value, and the other as a representational device that aides in transforming three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional form. The implications of this bifurcated history show that the varied and unstable nature of the meaning of scale complicates its use within all subfields of geography.
Research Interests: Sociology, Cultural Studies, Geography, Social Geography, Cartography, and 12 moreOntology, Epistemology, Media Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Social Sciences, Film Studies, Poststructuralism, History of Science, Representation, Visulaization, Linear Perspective, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Lukinbeal, Chris and Laura Sharp. Living Montage: A Gastronomy of the Eye. You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography XVII: 96-98.
Research Interests: Psychoanalysis, Geography, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Social Geography, and 15 moreMedia Studies, Architecture, Film Studies, Literature and cinema, Phenomenology, Cultural Landscapes, Jacques Lacan, Cinema, Montage, Landscape, Visual Arts, Honoré de Balzac, Cinema Studies, Media Geography, and Brunelleschi
This paper explores the use of a new pedagogy, the rock art stability index (RASI), to engender deeper understanding of weathering science concepts by students. Owing to its dynamic nature, RASI represents a quintessential actor network... more
This paper explores the use of a new pedagogy, the rock art stability index (RASI), to engender deeper understanding of weathering science concepts by students. Owing to its dynamic nature, RASI represents a quintessential actor network for weathering science, because it links task in the landscape with an active material practice and an alternative materialistic world-view recently called for in positivistic science, to create place. Using concept maps as an assessment tool, 571 college undergraduate students and 13 junior high school integrated science students (ages 12—13) were evaluated for increased learning potential between pre- and post-field experiences. Further, this article demonstrates that when students use RASI to learn the fundamental complex science of weathering they make in-depth connections between weathering form and process not achieved through traditional, positivistic weathering pedagogy. We argue that RASI draws upon inherent actor networks which allow studen...
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Sociology, Social Theory, Geography, Physical Geography, and 10 moreEarth Sciences, Philosophy of Science, Education, Actor Network Theory, Earth and Space science education, Fieldwork, Rock Art, Human and Physical Geography, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT, and Stability Index
Research Interests: Geography, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Social Geography, Visual Studies, and 15 moreMedia Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Film Theory and Practice, Film Theory, Critical Pedagogy, Geographical education, Visual Learning, Media, Cinema, Documentary Film, US-Mexico Borderlands, Cinema Studies, Media Geography, Arizona, and Cinema and Education
The 77th annual meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers was held on the campus of The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, from September 24 to 27, 2014. Paper sessions were held in the Tucson Marriott University Park... more
The 77th annual meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers was held on the campus of The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, from September 24 to 27, 2014. Paper sessions were held in the Tucson Marriott University Park Hotel, a block away from the University of Arizona’s Main Gate and just north of the new streetcar line that leads from campus to downtown Tucson. The Opening Night Reception was held in the Hall of Champions; the President’s Reception and Mexican Fiesta Dinner and Night at the Museum took place in the Arizona Historical Society’s Museum; and the Awards Banquet was in The University of Arizona’s Student Memorial Center. Though the Autumnal Equinox occurred a day before the conference, visitors were bathed in 98°F heat upon arrival. One hundred ninety-five people registered for the meeting. Attendees came from most of the states in the APCG region and included substantial contingents from The University of Arizona; Arizona State University; Portland State University; the University of Nevada, Reno; San Diego State University; Idaho State University; and several of the institutions in the California State system. Geographers from outside the region attended as well, coming from as far away as Korea and Germany. The Association of American Geographers’ President Mona Domosh (Dartmouth University) was also in attendance. The meeting opened with a reception held at The University of Arizona’s Hall of Champions, an Athletics museum attached to McKale Memorial Center (basketball arena), which highlights the University’s heritage and traditions. Attendees were welcomed by APCG Vice President Chris Lukinbeal and The University of Arizona administrators Vincent Del Casino (professor of geography and vice provost for Digital Learning & Student Engagement, and associate vice president for Student Affairs & Enrollment Management); John Paul Jones III (professor of geography and dean, College of Social and Behavioral Sci-
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With this paper we review past works that have established film geography as a sub-discipline. The paper is organized around the author-text-reader (ATR) model and pays particular attention to its role in defining the area of study and... more
With this paper we review past works that have established film geography as a sub-discipline. The paper is organized around the author-text-reader (ATR) model and pays particular attention to its role in defining the area of study and how it is approached theoretically and methodologically. The textual metaphor from which the ATR model is derived is a signifying practice associated with the cultural production of meaning through various forms of representation. Textual analysis is a hermeneutical method that became hegemonic in film studies beginning in the 1970s following Christian Metz’s influential application of semiotics to film, which occurred concomitantly with the establishment of film theory as a serious discipline (c.f. Shiel 2001). The method came to geography later during the “linguistic turn” in the social sciences that did not take full effect until the late 1980s (Lukinbeal and Zimmermann 2008). While the ATR model consists of three modalities, researchers have tended to focus on only one at a time (Dixon et al. 2008). An author-centered approach focuses on the pre-filmic processes of meaning creation. Here, the emphasis is on production, labor, the auteur, the generative process of meaning creation, and the overall economic conditions within the creative industries. A text-centered approach analyzes the construction of meaning within the film’s diegesis and mise-en-scene. Reader-centered approaches investigate film as a spectatorial practice, the audience as market, the situatedness of consumption, the ethnography of film audiences, and film exhibition.
Research Interests: History, Geography, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Economic Geography, and 15 moreFilm Studies, Film Theory, Geopolitics, Actor Network Theory, Film Analysis, Haptics, Jacques Derrida, Auteur Theory, Cinema, Feminist film theory, Landscape, Jean Baudrillard, Hollywood, Cinema Studies, and Cultural Theory of Affect
While “media geography” has coalesced in recent years as an identifiable subdiscipline of human geography, media geography did not emerge from a linear history, nor does it have a clearly defined or singular focus. Compiling this edition,... more
While “media geography” has coalesced in recent years as an identifiable subdiscipline of human geography, media geography did not emerge from a linear history, nor does it have a clearly defined or singular focus. Compiling this edition, participating in media geography networks at conferences and elsewhere, and teaching media at our respective institutions have all abundantly revealed that media geography is a subdiscipline with many different routes and trajectories. People come to identify as media geographers as a result of an interest in a particular medium such as film, television or radio, through the literature on the Internet and geographies of cyberspace, through critical and popular geopolitics, through questions of development and the digital divide, through media and cultural studies, through communication studies, through scholarship on the city and urban studies, and through GIS, the geoweb and geospatial technologies. Media geography intersects with social and cultural geography, development geography, political geography, feminist geography, economic geography and GIS. One of the major contributions of media productions, spaces and analyses are the opportunities they offer for providing an entryway into understanding places and communities that we may otherwise rarely, if ever encounter—but this can be problematic when the identity and places that are being marked as yours, no longer appear recognisable, representative and/or desirable. The contributions in this collection pay close attention to such opportunities and challenges posed by a range of media formats, contexts and methods. These diverse entry points make for a rich emerging field in which a number of voices and perspectives are present. The field is further complicated and enriched by scholars in media studies who have turned to human geography and human geographic concepts, in order to take space, place and scale seriously in their analyses of media texts, industries and audiences. Given the diversity of the field, we thought it valuable as editors to write three position pieces that situate our work, and us personally, within the broader project represented by the scholars in this volume.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Geography, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, and 15 moreAnthropology, Media Studies, Film Studies, Dance Studies, Film Theory, Critical Pedagogy, Cultural Landscapes, Critical Media Studies, Media Theory, Media, Cinema, Landscape, Film and Media Studies, Cinema Studies, and Media Geography
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This study reviews the major theories of visual search processes and applies some of their concepts to searching for multivariate point symbols in a map environment. The act of searching a map for information is a primary activity... more
This study reviews the major theories of visual search processes and applies some of their concepts to searching for multivariate point symbols in a map environment. The act of searching a map for information is a primary activity undertaken during map-reading. The complexity of this process will vary, of course, with symbol design and map content. Multivariate symbols, for example, will be more difficult to search for efficiently than univariate symbols. The purpose of this research was to examine the cognitive processes used by map readers when searching for multivariate point symbols on a map. The experiment used Chernoff Faces as the test symbol, and a symbol-detection task to assess how accurately and how efficiently target symbols composed of different combinations of facial features could be detected. Of particular interest was assessing the role that different combinations of symbol dimensions and different combinations of symbol parts played in moderating search efficiency....
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... Holmes and Gould's Tracy, as works of art, fulfill Tuan's crite-rion of “newness” and provide information on underlying social attitudes, hopes, and fears ... em-body cultural beliefs and values and take risks we are not... more
... Holmes and Gould's Tracy, as works of art, fulfill Tuan's crite-rion of “newness” and provide information on underlying social attitudes, hopes, and fears ... em-body cultural beliefs and values and take risks we are not brave enough to take for “things we believe in" (Lubin 1968, p ...
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Page 1. 179 Urban Geography, 2011, 32, 2, pp. 179207. DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.32. 2.179 Copyright © 2011 by Bellwether Publishing, Ltd. All rights reserved. 179 PLACING LATINO CIVIC ENGAGEMENT1 Patricia L. Price2 ...
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Geographers' interest in film has increased during the last 20 years. Methodological and theoretical perspectives tend, however, to be bipolar and reflect either cognitive or social approaches. Work reflecting these approaches is... more
Geographers' interest in film has increased during the last 20 years. Methodological and theoretical perspectives tend, however, to be bipolar and reflect either cognitive or social approaches. Work reflecting these approaches is reviewed with geographic research grounded in transactionalism and postmodernism as examples. A geographic view of film that recognizes the importance of more than one theoretical framework, positions the cognitive and social in a continuum reaching from the individual to the societal, and makes traditional notions of scale antiquated is recommended. Research by geographers contesting the assumed objectivity in documentaries is reviewed as are geographers' contributions to understanding the construction of meaning of urban and natural settings in films. Suggestions for future directions in film research are made.
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... E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and community in the twenty-first century. The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture. Scandinavian Political Studies , 30: 137–74. ... Putnam, R. 2007. E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and community in the twenty-first... more
... E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and community in the twenty-first century. The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture. Scandinavian Political Studies , 30: 137–74. ... Putnam, R. 2007. E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and community in the twenty-first century. The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture. ...
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... Chris curreidy is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Southern Conizecticut State University where he teaches film geography, GIs, cartography and social-irrbaii geography courses. of American Film Production Chris Lukinbeal ...
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ABSTRACT While the use of media permeates geographic research and pedagogic practice, the underlying literacies that link geography and media remain uncharted. This article argues that geographic media literacy incorporates visual... more
ABSTRACT While the use of media permeates geographic research and pedagogic practice, the underlying literacies that link geography and media remain uncharted. This article argues that geographic media literacy incorporates visual literacy, information technology literacy, information literacy, and media literacy. Geographic media literacy is the ability to locate, evaluate, effectively use, and produce geographic information. It is associated with analysis and expression, understanding and praxis. In an era where information increasingly comes from media sources and technologies saturate everyday life, media and media-related technologies have become central to geographic literacy.
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... From that session came the Daniel Arreola, and Gary Hausladen and Paul Starrs papers. ... The collec-tion concludes with Dando's exploration of Boy's Don't Cn/, and Dempsey's critical interpretation... more
... From that session came the Daniel Arreola, and Gary Hausladen and Paul Starrs papers. ... The collec-tion concludes with Dando's exploration of Boy's Don't Cn/, and Dempsey's critical interpretation of films that capture the Rural Female Community. ... Clarke, David B., ed. 1997. ...
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GeoJournal 59: 307321, 2004. © 2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. ... The rise of regional film production centers in North America, 19841997 ... Chris Lukinbeal Department of Geography, Arizona State... more
GeoJournal 59: 307321, 2004. © 2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. ... The rise of regional film production centers in North America, 19841997 ... Chris Lukinbeal Department of Geography, Arizona State University, PO Box 870104, ...
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This study investigates the sense of place portrayed in Ming Pao, a Chinese-language daily newspaper published in the Greater Toronto Area (gta). Mapping and content analysis of local news stories and photographs show that while the... more
This study investigates the sense of place portrayed in Ming Pao, a Chinese-language daily newspaper published in the Greater Toronto Area (gta). Mapping and content analysis of local news stories and photographs show that while the newspaper provides more coverage of the Chinese community than the mainstream media, there is an overwhelming emphasis on homeland news and a relatively limited range and amount of local news coverage. These findings, combined with the newspaper’s preoccupation with crime and lack of representation of other ethnic groups in a metropolitan area of unparalleled diversity, result in a portrait of the gta that is incomplete and potentially misleading.
This paper argues that locative media studies offers much broader insights on the logic of new media than is currently espoused. Media scholars have largely restricted the analysis of locative technologies to hand-held and immersive... more
This paper argues that locative media studies offers much broader insights on the logic of new media than is currently espoused. Media scholars have largely restricted the analysis of locative technologies to hand-held and immersive gadgets and experiences. I argue for an expanded theorization of the "locative", one that develops a broader understanding of the conditions of networking of new media platforms, users, and content. In addition to developing a geographical perspective on media consumption and use, it is argued that locative media studies should seek to analyze the means by which users both locate information on networks and are themselves located. A theory of the "locative", in other words, helps us understand the means by which we find information and also seek to be found on various technological platforms and networks.
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The daily newspaper in North America has long been a locally based medium that offers an opportunity for media geographers to explore concepts of place and locality. I explore how newspapers create a sense of place about the locality they... more
The daily newspaper in North America has long been a locally based medium that offers an opportunity for media geographers to explore concepts of place and locality. I explore how newspapers create a sense of place about the locality they serve. I review some of the major geographic theories of place and the local and also the work of communications scholars on how newspapers construct reality in their pages. I apply these ideas to the notion that newspapers construct a sense of place using both the form and the ...
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A professor in one of my film courses once asked if we get lost in the movies. By 'lost' she meant being immersed in the intentionalities and problematics of the film's narrative structure that sutures you to its story and... more
A professor in one of my film courses once asked if we get lost in the movies. By 'lost' she meant being immersed in the intentionalities and problematics of the film's narrative structure that sutures you to its story and makes one forget about the political economy involved behind the ...
Television, cinema, books, newspapers and the Internet mediate our experiences of place and geography. Geography is a visual discipline that is an embedded means of documentation, orientation and representation in appearance of maps,... more
Television, cinema, books, newspapers and the Internet mediate our experiences of place and geography. Geography is a visual discipline that is an embedded means of documentation, orientation and representation in appearance of maps, globes, travel descriptions, landscape ...
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The ways that a city (or at least its elites) represents itself to itself and to the world indicate something of that city's overall sense of self.1 The manufactured image of Los Angeles, as McClung suggests, is part of the... more
The ways that a city (or at least its elites) represents itself to itself and to the world indicate something of that city's overall sense of self.1 The manufactured image of Los Angeles, as McClung suggests, is part of the city's structure, part of its historical memory and collective sense of ...
... Stuart Aitken and Leo Zonn's (1994) essay, Re-Presenting the Place Pastiche, was an innervating introduction to film geography and an opening salvo in moving beyond mimetic, representational thinking. ... This is the... more
... Stuart Aitken and Leo Zonn's (1994) essay, Re-Presenting the Place Pastiche, was an innervating introduction to film geography and an opening salvo in moving beyond mimetic, representational thinking. ... This is the direction in film geography that I find most innervating. ...
This paper explores the semantic geographies inscribed by the news-making process. Previous research suggests that the commercial value of news audiences may contribute to the selection of places deemed worthy for reportage by publishers... more
This paper explores the semantic geographies inscribed by the news-making process. Previous research suggests that the commercial value of news audiences may contribute to the selection of places deemed worthy for reportage by publishers and editors. For example, the “newsworthiness” of different municipalities, or the ability of specific cities to attract news coverage, has been found to be related to financial aspects of municipalities as news markets. This study examines the amount of news attention given to local cities in a metropolitan area, and the geography that is created by the act of mentioning places in media texts. I utilized an automated content analysis of local news articles from 1999-2007 from a large metro daily newspaper in Phoenix, Arizona. Names of local cities were identified and mapped by their prevalence and co-occurrence in these newspaper articles. Results showed that per-capita rates of news coverage were positively correlated with city per-capita incomes, but not related to median age, total population, or proximity to the newspaper’s main office. Cities mentioned together within news articles also exhibited high rates of spatial autocorrelation; cities were more likely to be mentioned with neighboring cities than distant cities. I contend that the process of news production is also a cartographic process, since journalists are involved in representing places—and implicitly mapping places—through the semantic geographies of their media texts.
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... Aether is in many ways is a reflection of this very process. What started out as film geography in the mid 1990s has evolved into geographies of journalism, marketing, newspapers, photography, video, internet, gaming,... more
... Aether is in many ways is a reflection of this very process. What started out as film geography in the mid 1990s has evolved into geographies of journalism, marketing, newspapers, photography, video, internet, gaming, geovisualization, music, and television. ...
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In tandem with the boom in mobile media, the number of scholarly articles and essays on the social impact of the mobile phone is increasing every day. Some recent studies have expanded their focus to pay closer attention to specific... more
In tandem with the boom in mobile media, the number of scholarly articles and essays on the social impact of the mobile phone is increasing every day. Some recent studies have expanded their focus to pay closer attention to specific social and individual uses in "developing" countries, acknowledging mobile use at different social and political levels in different regions of
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Publikationsansicht. 59608859. Playing the World: Computer Games, Cartography and Spatial Stories (2008). Lammes, S. Details der Publikation. Archiv, DSpace at Utrecht University (Netherlands). Keywords, Letteren. Typ, Article. Sprache,... more
Publikationsansicht. 59608859. Playing the World: Computer Games, Cartography and Spatial Stories (2008). Lammes, S. Details der Publikation. Archiv, DSpace at Utrecht University (Netherlands). Keywords, Letteren. Typ, Article. Sprache, Englisch. ...
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Page 1. Point of Purchase Perceptions: Selling Products with Place M. Marian Mustoe Eastern Oregon University The word point can suggest a wide range of geographic implications. Near West Seattle, Washington, there is ...
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Page 1. Digital Digs, or Lara Croft Replaying Indiana Jones: Archaeological ... critique. The interplay of game architecture and narrative in the scenarios of Lara Croft's archaeological adventures aesthetically develops these... more
Page 1. Digital Digs, or Lara Croft Replaying Indiana Jones: Archaeological ... critique. The interplay of game architecture and narrative in the scenarios of Lara Croft's archaeological adventures aesthetically develops these ambiguities. ...
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In this essay I consider Graphical User Interfaces (guis) as instruments that generate spatiality according to the logic of the cartographic representation of reality. By analyzing the history of guis I explore how some latest generation... more
In this essay I consider Graphical User Interfaces (guis) as instruments that generate spatiality according to the logic of the cartographic representation of reality. By analyzing the history of guis I explore how some latest generation interfaces can partly transform space ...
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... It's not that commercialized radio sound where it's there and it's almost like it's untouchable. I think the Homebrew [listeners] feel that they can reach out and touch it, and play around with it a... more
... It's not that commercialized radio sound where it's there and it's almost like it's untouchable. I think the Homebrew [listeners] feel that they can reach out and touch it, and play around with it a little bit (Whiffen 2005, Personal Communication). ... Brian O'Connell explained: ...
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... (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. ... in Boys Don't Cry (1999); Chris Lukinbeal's (2006) discussion of the outsourcing of movie production to foreign countries; Stuart Aitken's (2007) investigation of the... more
... (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. ... in Boys Don't Cry (1999); Chris Lukinbeal's (2006) discussion of the outsourcing of movie production to foreign countries; Stuart Aitken's (2007) investigation of the representation of childhood in Scottish film; and Giorgio Hadi Curti's (2008 ...
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Within the locative media discourse, Radio Frequency Identification ( rfid) ranks as a primary technological component of the evolving pervasive computing infrastructure. rfid tags appear to constitute the flagship among the armada of... more
Within the locative media discourse, Radio Frequency Identification ( rfid) ranks as a primary technological component of the evolving pervasive computing infrastructure. rfid tags appear to constitute the flagship among the armada of ubiquitous computing devices that are about to create a shift in spatial and situational awareness. While this promise still needs to be fulfilled in the mundane realm of technological feasibility, this paper takes a different tack on this special technology. It does not deal with the future (of the supply chain, the data privacy, the "technological unconscious"), but
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Investigative journalism has its roots in the stunt and slumming journalism of the nineteenth century, a varied practice that meshes "undercover" passing, social justice, exposé and sensationalism. One recurring theme of this... more
Investigative journalism has its roots in the stunt and slumming journalism of the nineteenth century, a varied practice that meshes "undercover" passing, social justice, exposé and sensationalism. One recurring theme of this tradition has been the exploration of city spaces and the lives of disenfranchised urbanites who inhabit them. In 2006, The Globe and Mail, one of Canada's national English-language newspapers, allowed columnist Jan Wong to extend this tradition by going undercover, with her two children, as a (less than) minimum-wage housecleaner. The success of the series depends on the double entry of Jan Wong as a private domestic worker into her clients' homes and public journalist on the front page of the newspaper. Moving between low- income and middle-income homes, city and suburbs, Wong's discourse crisscrosses the physical, social and psychic spaces of labor, poverty and consumption in the contemporary metropolis. I argue these journalistic pr...
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This paper develops a methodology for understanding how relations between people and place are co-constituted through music and sounds. Using the case of Four Winds Festival Bermagui, New South Wales, the paper discusses our use of... more
This paper develops a methodology for understanding how relations between people and place are co-constituted through music and sounds. Using the case of Four Winds Festival Bermagui, New South Wales, the paper discusses our use of "sound diaries" as a means to better understand the role of sound in participants' understanding of place. Highlighted within our discussion is how our experimental methodology overcomes some of the inherent problems of researching so-called "sound geographies." Sound diaries provide a possible technique to provide partial insights into the embodied knowledge triggered by sounds and music. Woven within these personal interpretations and their attributed meanings are more general themes concerning the concept of soundscapes, practices of listening, the role of sound in the mutual constitution of place and identities, and the embodied underpinnings of place-making practices in relation to sound and music.
Video games not only incorporate representations of landscapes, they are themselves a form of landscape representation that communicates ideas about how the world is and how it should be. Like traditional forms of landscape... more
Video games not only incorporate representations of landscapes, they are themselves a form of landscape representation that communicates ideas about how the world is and how it should be. Like traditional forms of landscape representation, video games use tricks of perspective and realistic graphics to represent real world places or to create worlds that appear to be real. Through their
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This article argues that when mainstream journalists write about "undocumented workers" or so-called "illegal immigrants" they rarely address them as the implied audience of their stories. The argument is demonstrated... more
This article argues that when mainstream journalists write about "undocumented workers" or so-called "illegal immigrants" they rarely address them as the implied audience of their stories. The argument is demonstrated with a dialogic framing analysis of a sample of reportage on immigration and on the tensions in American citizenship issues from the 2005-06 New York Times. In the conclusion propositions
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At present, nearly every media-related subject field appears to be "locative", or with the prefix "geo" attached, be it the discussion on geoart, geosurveillance, or geocaching. Within this context, recent geographical... more
At present, nearly every media-related subject field appears to be "locative", or with the prefix "geo" attached, be it the discussion on geoart, geosurveillance, or geocaching. Within this context, recent geographical and phenomenological studies on mobile media practices, in particular, reveal a trend toward a revaluation of place and placiality. While social sciences, media and cultural studies label this re-materialization of place "spatial turn," a cultural, humanistic and media turn is acknowledged in geography. Currently, the two converging developments are still marked by differing conceptual formations: locative media and mediated localities. This paper as well as this issue are concerned with both sides—the spatial turn in media studies and the media turn in geographical studies—and provides a sketch of the subject area "geomedia" from a phenomenological perspective and the field of "media geography" from a dsciplinary pers...
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Since the collapse of communism and the European Union's enlargement, the debate on "Europeanization," its dimensions, features and geographies, has broadened notably. Organizing Europe spatially and symbolically has only... more
Since the collapse of communism and the European Union's enlargement, the debate on "Europeanization," its dimensions, features and geographies, has broadened notably. Organizing Europe spatially and symbolically has only just begun and it is still unfamiliar territory where media representations and elite discourses have a salient role in the construction of social space. Modern media practices can be understood as technologies of new political entity formation and border implementation. This paper analyses the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) as objects of knowledge and power through the international press. Those concerned with participation in this objectifying process are not only international institutions such as the European Union but also media in general. Empirically, the article analyzes how the Baltic States were produced in the discourses of the Financial Times during the last five years. It shows how the Baltic region is constructed as an obj...
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Writing about screen media and Chinese identities is a contentious and complicated task. In some ways it’s similar to writing about “European media,” an endeavor that would seem odd to most readers given the diverse terrain traversed by... more
Writing about screen media and Chinese identities is a contentious and complicated task. In some ways it’s similar to writing about “European media,” an endeavor that would seem odd to most readers given the diverse terrain traversed by these media, a terrain on which societies have struggled for centuries to sustain distinctive voices in numerous languages. Although political regimes have at times brought Europeans together through military might and strategic alliances, their successes have been comparatively fleeting. Europe today continues to struggle with the process of unification and remains differentiated along lines that were solidified by the Westphalian system of states and the waves of nationalism that washed across European societies during the nineteenth century.
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Technological advancements have always been the harbingers of social change; however, the roles these changes take have varied implications for the populace. In recent years, the application and use of technology have accelerated for the... more
Technological advancements have always been the harbingers of social change; however, the roles these changes take have varied implications for the populace. In recent years, the application and use of technology have accelerated for the individual and for the authorities. Technology is increasingly used as a method for societal monitoring and control, raising issues over civil liberties and personal freedoms. In this paper I will trace a history of informal protest and “momentary communities” from Rave culture of the 1990s to a non-protest/protest community of FlashMobs in the twenty-first century. Protest movements are reacting to increases in surveillance, infiltration and infringement of civil liberties by utilizing underground methods to achieve their goals. Locative media and the rise of ubiquitous computing have put power into the hands of the many and are being employed to enact protests online and on the streets. New technologies have allowed for new communities to be defined: FlashMobs can be seen as a protest for common space; SmartMobs utilize technology to better organize activist and rights protests. Citizens have new methods to mobilize large groups of people who share a common interest, goal or outlook, creating new “momentary communities.” These new methodologies are stretching the conceptual understanding of social protest and empowering citizens to react against authoritarian controls. This paper will show the power inherent in this new method of social organization and its potential (already under way) for activism and hactivism.
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A compreensão do contraste e do desafio das cartografias cinemáticas pode residir na indagação do que John Pickles (2004, p.89) chama de “o paradoxo cartográfico.” O paradoxo cartográfico é que a perspectiva linear e o projecionismo... more
A compreensão do contraste e do desafio das cartografias cinemáticas pode residir na indagação do que John Pickles (2004, p.89) chama de “o paradoxo cartográfico.” O paradoxo cartográfico é que a perspectiva linear e o projecionismo informam a prática cartográfica. Contudo, estes dois regimes de visão são complementares e contraditórios. O paradoxo cartográfico tem sido mobilizado pela montagem e a animação de imagens em movimento. A penúltima tecnologia da perspectiva linear é o cinema, enquanto que a penúltima tecnologia do projecionismo é o SIG e a animação cartográfica. Discuto neste artigo que compreender a mobilização destes regimes de visão pode conduzir à produção de geovisualizações afetivas.
There are three key threads running through Public Privates: the representation of gender in media texts; the gendering of private and public spaces in these cultural artefacts; and, the importance...
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Based on an intensive news-flow analysis, this article seeks to determine the news geographies of the online editions of the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. That is, by tracking the origin, source and topic of the... more
Based on an intensive news-flow analysis, this article seeks to determine the news geographies of the online editions of the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. That is, by tracking the origin, source and topic of the editorial content of these daily newspapers, the article provides a comprehensive picture of their international and domestic coverage. It argues that, in spite of the increased reach the Internet affords these newspapers, they map out a highly circumscribed news world, which consists largely of their respective home states, their federal government, a handful of Washington’s closest political, economic and military partners, and the battlefields of Iraq. Not only does this reinforce the news value of proximity, the results suggest that researchers need to account for the economic value of certain kinds of news coverage, particularly in the topic areas of sports and arts and entertainment.
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as part of Wiley-Blackwell’s “Critical Introductions to Geography” series. This is the series that began with Don Mitchell’s Cultural Geography and Paul Robbins’ Political Ecology and has now grown to five titles (with another five... more
as part of Wiley-Blackwell’s “Critical Introductions to Geography” series. This is the series that began with Don Mitchell’s Cultural Geography and Paul Robbins’ Political Ecology and has now grown to five titles (with another five forthcoming). As the book’s front matter notes, “Critical Introductions to Geography is a series of textbooks for undergraduate courses covering the key geographical subdisciplines and providing broad and introductory treatment with a critical edge. They are designed for the North American and international market and take a lively and engaging approach with a distinct geographical voice that distinguishes them from more traditional and out-date texts” (p. ii). Is communication geography really a “key subdiscipline?” Apparently Paul Adams thinks so, and evidently either he or series editor John Paul Jones were able to convince Wiley-Blackwell as much too. And yet I wonder how many universities in “the North American and international market” have undergra...
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Virtual places are becoming more and more common, leading to more interest from geographers. Videogames create a variety of virtual places to explore, though they must still be played in the real world. Some of the earliest videogames... more
Virtual places are becoming more and more common, leading to more interest from geographers. Videogames create a variety of virtual places to explore, though they must still be played in the real world. Some of the earliest videogames were found at arcades, which provided social gaming experiences that are virtually nonexistent today. Although the place is now absent, there exists a community of arcade collectors who obtain and restore games in order to recreate the experience in their own homes. While the community surrounding the arcade of the past was largely limited to local arcades, present day collectors are scattered across the United States. Today collectors rely heavily on the virtual places created by the Internet to stay connected, although a variety of events occur at different levels of scale due to the physical nature of the games. This article uses images to explore these events, starting with local gatherings, and going up to national scale expositions. Today it is c...
The music of Irish rock band u2 is often heavily loaded with idealistic and political connotations, but is at the same time abstract enough to allow for broad (re) interpretation. This combination has proven to create a profound... more
The music of Irish rock band u2 is often heavily loaded with idealistic and political connotations, but is at the same time abstract enough to allow for broad (re) interpretation. This combination has proven to create a profound representational discourse in the dramatic and sensuous staging of live concerts. Live u2 performances are all-encompassing spectacles that use sound, images, props, and the sheer magnitude of the event to create a fresh approach to the texts (songs) that are both temporally and locationally specific. The u2 concert space is consciously constructed for the purpose of producing a concert experience that has the potential to transform the audience’s perceptions of the world beyond the horizons of the concert arena. This article will explore how u2 manipulates the space of a concert arena to evoke its socially conscious messages. This study will unveil the vast range of processes and devices employed to create the overwhelming experience that is a live u2 conce...
Salsa no tiene raza ni color. The notion that salsa music has/knows neither race nor color is commonly held by salsa musicians, dancers, and avid listeners. Salsa music and dance is considered by practitioners to be a unifier—a global... more
Salsa no tiene raza ni color. The notion that salsa music has/knows neither race nor color is commonly held by salsa musicians, dancers, and avid listeners. Salsa music and dance is considered by practitioners to be a unifier—a global phenomenon that brings people from diverse backgrounds together in the same space for mutual enjoyment. In this paper, I complicate notions of salsa as strictly a unifying force by arguing that the meanings ascribed to salsa music and the way these meanings are expressed through the body within clubs in the Triangle area (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) of North Carolina also creates divisions among actors of the salsa and broader Latin music scene. Following an ethnographic exploration of salsa clubs, I argue that salsa mediates subtle forms of territoriality. Communities of dancers are constructed around the ways in which the body responds to the salsa rhythm (i.e. salsa On-1, Mambo On-2, Cuban style salsa), therefore the micro-geographies of movement al...
In line with recent calls in the transnational discourse for more work into middling transnationalism this article investigates the role of information and communication technologies ( ict ) in the experiences migrants from South African... more
In line with recent calls in the transnational discourse for more work into middling transnationalism this article investigates the role of information and communication technologies ( ict ) in the experiences migrants from South African and the Republic of Korea to New Zealand. Interviews were conducted with individuals who migrated at various times over the past 30 years to explore what if any difference icts have made to how they have settled in New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland. While icts are recognised as a core contributing factor to transnationalism few researchers have actually investigated how migrants are using them. Consequently, this article focuses on two aspects. First the migrants use icts to inform their geographical imaginations concerning the new spaces of Auckland and secondly, their changing use of icts over time in their negotiation of contact with family and friends “back home”. The findings disrupt conclusion that have been drawn in the literature, finding...
Media geographies inspired People’s Guelaguetza: Oaxacans Take it to the Streets. In Oaxaca’s central marketplace in summer 2006, call-in commentary on Sit-In Radio (Radio Plantón) wafted through the air and, from time-to-time, people... more
Media geographies inspired People’s Guelaguetza: Oaxacans Take it to the Streets. In Oaxaca’s central marketplace in summer 2006, call-in commentary on Sit-In Radio (Radio Plantón) wafted through the air and, from time-to-time, people stopped what they were doing to listen intently to a compelling narrative. Woman-run Saucepan Radio (Radio Cacerola) blared from taxis as they navigated to the edges of the permanently barricaded central city. And, over a period of weeks, University Radio (Radio Universidad) slowly brought the city to a boil with the calm voice of la doctora Aether: The Journal of Media Geography • Fall 2010 10
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To many Americans, geographical imaginings of Middle Easterners, Arabs, and Muslims are frequently derogatory. Though such imaginings have different meanings, origins, and ramifications, they have nevertheless reproduced essentialized... more
To many Americans, geographical imaginings of Middle Easterners, Arabs, and Muslims are frequently derogatory. Though such imaginings have different meanings, origins, and ramifications, they have nevertheless reproduced essentialized perceptions of these diverse groups of people as the backward or dangerous “other.” Images such as the oppressed woman draped in a burka or the angry man with a long beard touting a gun are prevalent in everyday discourses, popular media, and political rhetoric in the U.S. Particularly since 9/11 and the escalation of the “war on terror,” these sorts representations have not only become common, but have also had widespread ramifications in both domestic and international politics. Focusing on the scale of the body, our paper examines representations of the male body as a site and symbol of difference and “otherness.” Specifically, we examine beards, whether worn by al-Qaeda fighters or Afghan citizens, as key symbols in the manufacturing of Middle East...
Analyses of virtual spaces have frequently cited cinema as the primary influence on the configuration and perception of game worlds. This essay takes a different approach, examining the influence of historical ideologies of space on... more
Analyses of virtual spaces have frequently cited cinema as the primary influence on the configuration and perception of game worlds. This essay takes a different approach, examining the influence of historical ideologies of space on current game design. In Discipline and Punish, Foucault defines the modern social space as a configuration of private domiciles and public precincts ordered to facilitate surveillance, indexing of social data, and population control. The reordering of pre-modern social space was directly motivated by the bubonic plague. Stopping the spread of disease meant exercising strict control over social interaction and over the spaces in which that interaction occurred. Once the emergency had passed, the new configuration remained in place, gradually evolving from an ad hoc defensive system to a permanent disciplinary system. The rules of Foucaultian disciplinary space extend to the simulated spaces of role-playing games, in which the player’s encounters with dise...
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The growl of Tom Waits is unmistakable and more so than ever in his latter works. The music is theatrical in nature; telling the tales of assorted characters and using the mellow plucking of a banjo or a cacophony of mismatched... more
The growl of Tom Waits is unmistakable and more so than ever in his latter works. The music is theatrical in nature; telling the tales of assorted characters and using the mellow plucking of a banjo or a cacophony of mismatched instruments to invoke the right mood for the story. His earlier albums evoke images of American working class men and women; his later evoke images of the surreal and the exotic. It is my assertion that through these latter images, Waits is making art that is overtly geographic and covertly commenting on modernity, being, dwelling, and the existentialist networks that connect the world. Through my own interpretation of the 1999 album Mule Variations I pull forth examples of existential space and place and attempt to map its soundscapes discovering a sorrowful ambivalence towards fixity and flow.
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Thinking about place and our experiences of being in the world through montage, in this edition of you are here we asked for contributions that expressed experiences of place through the technique of montage, but also those that... more
Thinking about place and our experiences of being in the world through montage, in this edition of you are here we asked for contributions that expressed experiences of place through the technique of montage, but also those that illustrate how our experiences of place are always already a montage effect, constructed by selection, variance, the cut, and the unseen. Following precedent, poems, prose essays, and visual art comprise the majority of the selected submissions, all of which were chosen for their ability to impress upon us the fact that montage is not merely a visual device that differentiates art-house from Hollywood cinema, but rather underpins communication itself.
Research Interests: Geography, Human Geography, Social Geography, Urban Geography, Visual Studies, and 25 moreVisual Anthropology, Media Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Art Theory, Film Studies, Film Theory, Photography, Contemporary Art, Film Analysis, Film History, Soviet Film, Media, Cinema, Montage, Russian & Soviet Art, Visual Arts, Photography (Visual Studies), Visual and Cultural Studies, Media Geography, Sergei Eisenstein, Collage, Montage, & Assemblage, Commuication, Lev Kuleshov, Theory of Montage, and Communications Geography
by Ann Fletchall and Kristy Smith, provides background information related to the inception and goals of the project Mediated Geographies: Critical Pedagogy and Geographic Education.
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by Sam Herr, Chelsea Kappeler, and Stephanie Lipple. The documentary is the story of Shanti Sellz and Daniel Strauss, two No More Deaths volunteers who were arrested in 2005 for providing humanitarian aid in the Sonoran Desert. The... more
by Sam Herr, Chelsea Kappeler, and Stephanie Lipple. The documentary is the story of Shanti Sellz and Daniel Strauss, two No More Deaths volunteers who were arrested in 2005 for providing humanitarian aid in the Sonoran Desert. The documentary follows the lives of Shanti and a small contingent of other humanitarian aid workers and sympathizers over the last couple of months leading up to their trial. The lawsuit would later be thrown out in 2006.
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by Katie deVriese, James Wagner, Chris Lukinbeal, Marilyn Dantico, John Finn, Natalie Lopez, Sarah Bongiovanni, and Stuart Bricker (with music by Peter deVriese), explores civic engagement, neighborhood revitalization and community... more
by Katie deVriese, James Wagner, Chris Lukinbeal, Marilyn Dantico, John Finn, Natalie Lopez, Sarah Bongiovanni, and Stuart Bricker (with music by Peter deVriese), explores civic engagement, neighborhood revitalization and community building in the Garfield neighborhood of Phoenix, AZ.
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by Kirby Brady, Nell McCallum, Mary Perry, and Nick Sexton, examines the relationship between the US/Mexico border and the people of Douglas, Arizona.
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by Tad Barker, Michael Wyman, and Ellis Harper, is about US/Mexico border pharmacies and their clientele. The film shows people that frequent these pharmacies, what they purchase, why they purchase medications there, their opinions on... more
by Tad Barker, Michael Wyman, and Ellis Harper, is about US/Mexico border pharmacies and their clientele. The film shows people that frequent these pharmacies, what they purchase, why they purchase medications there, their opinions on prescription drugs from both the US and from Mexico, and the legal circumstances in which they buy prescription drugs in Mexico.
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by Claire Kleese, Chris Bentley, John Holden, and Nicole Disante, examines the market of tourist goods in Nogales, Mexico and Mexicans crossing the border to shop in Nogales, Arizona at big stores like WalMart. This documentary focuses on... more
by Claire Kleese, Chris Bentley, John Holden, and Nicole Disante, examines the market of tourist goods in Nogales, Mexico and Mexicans crossing the border to shop in Nogales, Arizona at big stores like WalMart. This documentary focuses on the exchange of goods between the two countries sharing Nogales
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by Katie Smith, Shuko Ogi, Carson Cherland, and Mark Poland, takes us on a tour of Arizona’s Route 66 near Flagstaff, Arizona.