Communication Geography Specialty Group of the AAG

To provide a forum for intellectual exchange between geographers studying communication issues within a political, economic, or cultural geography framework as well as geographers studying communication technologies and infrastructure. Approved by the AAG Council, October 2003

A Facebook Group for the Communication Geography Specialty Group has been established on Facebook. Please join the group if you are on Facebook and are interested in communication geography.

The winners of the 2009 Communication Geography Student Paper competition were announced at the business meeting of the Communicaiton Geography Specialty Group. The winners are David Meek from The University of Georgia for his paper YouTube, Invisibility and Displacement: Towards a Situational Geography of Cyberplace and Ann M Fletchall from Arizona State University for her paper Landscape and Place-Making on Television: The Construction of Orange County, California.

The Communication Geography Specialty Group is sponsoring 22 sessions at the Las Vegas meeting of the AAG. Highlights include 13 sessions on Media Geography, two sessions asking "Is Google Good for Geography?", and sessions on mobility, measuring Internet traffic, online politics, and e-commerce. The Communication Geography Specialty Group meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, 3/25/09, from 11:50 AM - 12:50 PM in North Hall N117, Las Vegas Convention Center.

The 2009 conference of the Australia/New Zealand Communication Association will take place in Brisbane on 8-10 July 2009. Papers are being sought from across a range of disciplines for the Digtal and Social Media stream as well as the overall conference.

9th International Conference of Sociocybernetics. Urbino, Italy 29 June- 5 July 2009

Las Vegas from the air

Join us in Las Vegas for the 2009 AAG Meeting

Scholarly articles on emerging issues of life in virtual worlds such as Second Life are solicited. Work that connects streams of ethics research and theory to virtual worlds as they are and to what they are developing into is particularly sought. More information.

Call it a mobile, cell phone, or keitai; when an incoming call is heard, both power and place concerns arise. Mobile telephony adoption and usage is about power and place. The power of the mobile is increasing as it integrates with other everyday technologies, objects, and across media platforms. Currently there is significant emerging work on mobiles in various disciplines in Australia and New Zealand, as part of a vibrant international reckoning of mobiles and online technologies. More information

The Communication Geography Specialty Group is sponsoring 13 sessions at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. A schedule of the sponsored sessions has been posted. Highlights include a series of eight sessions on Geographies of Media, two sessions on satellite navigation systems, and a session on the geogaphy of Graffiti. In addition the Communication Geography Specialty Group Business Meeting will be held on Thursday April 17 from 11:55 AM to 12:55 PM.

Aether Premier Issue

Aether: The Journal of Media Geography has published it's premier issue online.

Daren Purcell recently attended the 2007 Association of Internet Researchers Conference and shares a link to the conference program (pdf) that you may find interesting

News Archive

About the Comunication Geography Specialty Group

CGSG Bylaws (pdf)

About Communication Geography

AAG Meeting Activities

Las Vegas
- 2009 Las Vegas Sponsored Sessions
Boston
- 2008 Boston Sponsored Sessions
San Francisco
- 2007 San Francisco Sponsored Sessions
Chicago

2006 Chicago Sponsored Sessions

Denver
- 2005 Denver Sponsored Sessions
- Calls for Papers for the 2005 Denver AAG Meeting
Philadelphia
- 2004 Philadelphia Spnosored Sessions
- Minutes of the 2004 Business Meeting

Contact

Michael Longan
Communication Director
Department of Geography and Meteorology
Valparaiso University
Valparasio, IN 46383

Updated March 20, 2008