2005 Denver AAG Meeting Communication Geogaphy Specialty Group Sponsored Sessions
1601
Visual Narratives in the Production of Geography 2
is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/5/05,
from 4:00 PM - 5:40 PM
Organizer(s):
K. Maria D. Lane - Dept. of Geography, UT-Austin
Chair(s):
K. Maria D. Lane - Dept. of Geography, UT-Austin
Presenters(s):
4:00 PM Kendra McSweeney - The Ohio State
University
Abstract Title: Portrait, Landscape, Mirror: Historical Photographs
in Ethnographic Research
4:20 PM Amy Propen
Abstract Title: Meaning-Making and the Map: A Social Semiotic
Approach to Analyzing Cartographic Representation
4:40 PM Harvey K. Flad - Vassar College
Abstract Title: The Virtual Fieldtrip: A Guide to Reading
the Past and Present City
5:00 PM Mr. Glenn W Gentry - SYRACUSE
UNIVERSITY
Abstract Title: Sparking Geographic Images: Exploring the
Role of Matchbooks/boxes as Visual Narratives
Discussant(s):
Prof. Paul C. Adams - University of Texas at Austin
2504
Spatial Dimensions of the Small World
Wednesday, 4/6/05,
from 3:00 PM - 4:40 PM
Organizer(s):
Daniel Z. Sui - Texas A&M
Chair(s):
Daniel Z. Sui - Texas A&M
Presenters(s):
3:00 PM Introduction: Daniel Z. Sui -
Texas A&M
3:05 PM Prof. Catherine Dibble - University
Of Maryland
Abstract Title: Synthesis and Calibration of Spatial Small-world
Networks
3:25 PM Bin Jiang - University of Gaule
Abstract Title: On Small World and Information Structures
of the Built Environments
3:45 PM Zengwang Xu
Abstract Title: A spatial diffusion model based on the small
world theory
Discussant(s):
Rui Carvalho - UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Prof. Paul C. Adams - University of Texas at Austin
4118
Geographies of Media 1: Cinematic and Televisual Geographies
(Abstracts)
Friday, 4/8/05,
from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Organizer(s):
James Craine - San Diego State University
Edward L. Jackiewicz - California State University - Northridge
Chair(s):
Chris Lukinbeal - Arizona State University - Department of Geography
Presenters(s):
8:00 AM Chris Lukinbeal - Arizona State
University - Department of Geography
Abstract Title: Cinematic Landscapes
8:20 AM Mr. Joseph Escobedo Palis
Abstract Title: Two For The Road: The Latin American Geographies
through the Lenses of Walter Salles
8:40 AM Kevin E. McHugh - Arizona State
University
Abstract Title: Oh, the Places You'll Go!
9:00 AM
Katie Algeo - Western Kentucky University
Abstract Title: Sikhing Identity in "Bend it Like Beckham":
Sikhs Speak
9:20 AM James Craine - San Diego State
University
Abstract Title: Virtual Signification: Los
Angeles, The Shield, and theshieldfans.com
4218
Geographies of Media 2: Spaces of Print and Advertising
(Abstracts)
Friday, 4/8/05,
from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Organizer(s):
James Craine - San Diego State University
Chris Lukinbeal - Arizona State University - Department of Geography
Chair(s):
James Craine - San Diego State University
Presenters(s):
10:00 AM Christina Dando - University
of Nebraska-Omaha
Abstract Title: The Last, Best Space?: Recasting the Plains
as Space
10:20 AM Jane Moeckli - University of
Iowa
Abstract Title: “What’s healthy is what’s beautiful”: Representations
of ‘nature’ in health and beauty advertisements
10:40 AM Naomi Pope - University Of California,
Los Angeles
Abstract Title: Competitive Commercials: A Geographical Analysis
of the Advertising Industry in Los Angeles
11:00 AM Mr. Scott Rodgers - King's College
London
Abstract Title: Mediating cities as political objects/projects:
journalism, practice and association
4318
Geographies of Media 3: Performance
(Abstracts)
Friday, 4/8/05,
from 12:00 PM - 1:40 PM
Organizer(s):
James Craine - San Diego State University
Chris Lukinbeal - Arizona State University - Department of Geography
Chair(s):
Edward L. Jackiewicz - California State University - Northridge
Presenters(s):
12:00 PM Ola Johansson - University Of
Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Abstract Title: Birth of the Cool: Modern Rock, Local Music
Scenes, and the Ephemeral Nature of Global Popular Culture
12:20 PM Tamar Y. Rothenberg
Abstract Title: From “Around the Way” to the “Global-I”: Developing
Perspectives on Geography in Youth Media
12:40 PM Katrinka C. Somdahl - University
of Texas at Austin
Abstract Title: Dancing on the Web: a sense of place/ a politics
of space
1:00 PM Prof. Jules Boykoff - Whitman
College
Abstract Title: Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and
the Politicization of Public Space
1:20 PM Robert Russell - University of
Iowa
Abstract Title: The Real World, Chicago: Or, Crossing Between
the Virtual and Local: Alternative Country Music and Community in Chicago
4347
Islands I: Isolated Outliers or Critical Nodes of Contact? Historical
and Political Perspectives
Friday, 4/8/05,
from 12:00 PM - 1:40 PM
Organizer(s):
Philip E. Steinberg - Florida State University
Eric Clark - Social and Economic Geography, Lund
Chair(s):
Eric Clark - Social and Economic Geography, Lund
Presenters(s):
12:00 PM Kent Mathewson - Louisiana State
University
Abstract Title: Mythical Isles and Insular Myths: Stepping
Stones to Geographical Modernity
12:20 PM Philip E. Steinberg - Florida
State University
Abstract Title: Islands and the Origin of the Modern State:
Geohistory From the Perspective of the Portolan Chart
12:40 PM Prof. John Terrell - Field Museum
of Natural History
Abstract Title: The Making of an Island: Coastal geomorphology
and New Guinea's Changing Human Role in the Southwestern Pacific
1:00 PM Richard Deal - Western Kentucky
University
Abstract Title: Devolution on Tokelau: Reconciling Traditional
Structures with Contemporary Needs
Discussant(s):
W. Stuart Kirkham - University of Texas
4418
Geographies of Media 4: Communicating
(Abstracts)
Friday, 4/8/05,
from 2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Organizer(s):
James Craine - San Diego State University
Edward L. Jackiewicz - California State University - Northridge
Chair(s):
Chris Lukinbeal - Arizona State University - Department of Geography
Presenters(s):
2:00 PM William Terry - Miami University
Abstract Title: WAIF-FM: A CASE STUDY IN COMMUNITY RADIO'S
PLACE IN A GLOBALIZING MEDIASCAPE
2:20 PM Karen Johnson-Webb - BOWLING
GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY
Abstract Title: Media Agenda Setting: Perceptions of Rural
Vulnerability to Terrorist Attack
2:40 PM Prof. Marian Mustoe - Eastern
Oregon University
Abstract Title: The Emergency Alert System: Its viability
in the New Localism of Commercial Radio
3:00 PM Ms. Kendra Strauss - UNIVERSITY
OF OXFORD
Abstract Title: Dispatches from an overheating world:Writing
the geographical imaginations of global warming.
4447
Islands II: Isolated Outliers or Critical Nodes of Contact? Economic
Development Perspectives
Friday, 4/8/05,
from 2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Organizer(s):
Philip E. Steinberg - Florida State University
Eric Clark - Social and Economic Geography, Lund
Chair(s):
Philip E. Steinberg - Florida State University
Presenters(s):
2:00 PM Chang-Yi Chang - National
Taiwan University
Abstract Title: A Regional Perspective on Tourism Development
of Small Islands in Taiwan-A Case Study of the Pescadores
2:20 PM Huei-Min Tsai - National Taiwan
Normal University
Abstract Title: Island Visioning and Participatory Local Sustainability
Indicators: A case study of Kinmen Island
2:40 PM Eric Clark - Social and Economic
Geography, Lund
Abstract Title: Island gentrification
3:00 PM Prof. Beate M.W. Ratter - University
of Mainz
Abstract Title: Cane, Culture and Castro – Path Dependency
in Caribbean economies, the Cuban example
Discussant(s):
Russell Fielding - University Of Montana
4518
Geographies of Media 5: Cyberspace and the Internet
(Abstracts)
Friday, 4/8/05,
from 4:00 PM - 5:40 PM
Organizer(s):
James Craine - San Diego State University
Chris Lukinbeal - Arizona State University - Department of Geography
Chair(s):
Edward L. Jackiewicz - California State University - Northridge
Presenters(s):
4:00 PM Leigh Schwartz
Abstract Title: Representation of Cities and Fantasy Landscapes
in Video Games
4:20 PM Robert McNab Kerr - University
of Wisconsin-Platteville
Abstract Title: Xenophobia in Normative Cyber-Space: Mainstreaming
the 'Extreme-Right' on the Internet
4:40 PM Darren Purcell - Florida Dept.
of Education
Abstract Title: Regional Identity in Cyberspace - Competing
Visions of Sandzak and Raska
5:00 PM Ann Z. Li - Rutgers University
Abstract Title: The devil finds work for virtual hands to
do: Telegeographies and media markets
5139
Geopolitics, Globalization and the Representation of Place
(Abstracts)
Saturday, 4/9/05,
from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Organizer(s):
Prof. Paul C. Adams - University of Texas at Austin
Chair(s):
Prof. Paul C. Adams - University of Texas at Austin
Presenters(s):
8:00 AM Bruce D'Arcus - Miami University
Of Ohio
Abstract Title: Elián González and the Geopolitics of Home
8:20 AM Reecia Orzeck - Syracuse University
Abstract Title: Jenin Brought Home: The Politics of Representation
and Reception
8:40 AM Virginie Mamadouh - University
of Amsterdam
Abstract Title: The 2004 presidential election: European media
and the geopolitics of a global event
9:00 AM Jason Dittmer - Georgia Southern
University
Abstract Title: Captain America's Empire: Reflections on Identity,
Popular Culture, and Post-9/11 Geopolitics
9:20 AM Prof. Paul C. Adams - University
of Texas at Austin
Abstract Title: French Visions of Europe and the United States:
Imagining a "Euro-Puissance"
5106
The Wide Wicked Web: Exploring the Unusual and Underground Internet
Saturday, 4/9/05,
from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Organizer(s):
Matthew Zook - University of Kentucky
Chair(s):
Matthew Zook - University of Kentucky
Presenters(s):
8:00 AM Mark Graham - University of Kentucky
Abstract Title: Patterns of Internet Dating and Partner Search
8:20 AM Matthew Zook - University of
Kentucky
Abstract Title: Spam, Spam, Spam, Glorious Spam: Uncovering
the Geographic Contours of Bulk, Unsolicited Email
8:40 AM Prof. Sean Gorman - George Mason
University
Abstract Title: The Geography of Spam? An Exploratory Analysis
of the Origins of Unsolicited Email