Communication Geography: A Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers


Purpose: 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

 


Latest News

Special Issue of "The Information Society" on Geographies of the Information Society Available.

A special issue of The Informaiton Society has been published on Geographies of the Information Society and features articles on the Internet and religious communities, spatial data infrastruture, information and land use management, mobile communications, and more. Browse the Table of Contents.

Call for Chapters: Geographies of Dance

Proposals for chapters for a book on the Geographies of Dance are being sought. Abstracts should be submitted by September 15, 2009.

Aether Call For Papers--Landscape, History, and the Media

Papers that explore the intersection among landscape, history, and the media are sought for a special issue of Aether. Submissions of abstracts due by August 2009. .

Communication Specialty Group is now on Facebook

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.

Las Vegas from the air

Communication Geography sponsored 22 sessions at the 2009 AAG meeting in Las Vegas.

The Communication Geography Specialty Group Congratulates the Winners of This Year's Student Paper Competition

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.

 


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About the Comunication Geography Specialty Group

About Communication Geography

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Contact

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

 

 

Updated March 20, 2008