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

Call for Papers 2006 AAG Meeting: Further Details

  


Further information is provided here on the call for papers by the Communication Geography Specialty Group. "COMGEOG" is inviting inquiries and submission of abstracts or organized sessions related to: (A) communication infrastructure, diffusion and policy, or (B) representation, symbolism and discourse. Sessions bringing together these two areas of interest are particularly welcome.

TOPIC A
Suitable topics relating to communication infrastructure, diffusion and policy include:
- the diffusion of wireless communications
- new social practices associated with new media
- shifting regimes of media regulation
- concentration of power in the media industries
- barriers to the diffusion of certain media in certain places
- interaction effects between various new communication technologies
- economic factors driving uneven communication access
- actor networks and communication networks
- surveillance and changing views of privacy
- transformation of time and space
- techniques for mapping communication flows and infrastructure

TOPIC B
Suitable topics relating to representation, symbolism and discourse include:
- place images in television, film, radio, etc.
- nationalist propaganda from above and below
- advertising and geographical ideologies
- coded spaces and code/space
- personal identity and its expression
- modes of democratic communication
- communicative action and citizenship
- transnational information flows
- representations of time and space
- representations of nature

If you are unsure whether your research fits in with the interests of COMGEOG feel free to contact Paul Adams. Abstracts and presenter PIN are due at the address below before November 3, 2005.

Paul Adams
Chair, COMGEOG
Department of Geography and the Environment
University of Texas at Austin
paul.adams@mail.utexas.edu

 
 
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