First Annual Student Paper Competition

CALL FOR PAPERS
Communication Geography Specialty Group
First Annual Student Paper Competition

COMPETITION TOPIC: Communication technologies or representation of space/place

Papers that effectively relate these two issues will be more highly scored. Acceptable topics
might include:

• Sense of place/space changing in response to communications
• Virtual place/space
• Embodiment and disembodiment as a result of communication
• Communication and diaspora
• Communication and nationalism
• Communication and international conflict
• Geopolitical discourses
• Cultural messages underlying globalization
• Diffusion of a communication technology
• Uneven access to communication technologies across space and society
• Place images in the media
• Political aspects of media institutions
• Economic aspects of media institutions
• Technologically-supported social networks
• Extensibility and distanciation
• Changing relevance of distance in people's lifeworlds
• Relations between communication and transportation
• Telecommunications and the city

COMPETITION DETAILS:

Submit papers to Melanie McCalmont mccalmont@wisc.edu by February 10, 2006 in digital
format (Word or PDF file). Papers must be in publishable format, 20-35 pages, with a cover page
indicating the author(s) names, affiliations, telephone and e-mail address.

To be eligible, a paper must be presented in one of the 2006 AAG sessions sponsored by
COMGEOG and the author must be a student member of COMGEOG. Qualified papers must be
written by currently registered student(s). An exception is an author who has graduated but has
not yet taken a teaching position.

Winners will be announced at the COMGEOG Specialty Group meeting during the AAG Annual
Meeting in Chicago, IL in March 2006.