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
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Ethical Issues of Life in Virtual Worlds
Call for chapters
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.
2nd Call for papers for ‘Placing Mobile Communications’ A stream for the Australian & New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) conference 2008
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
AAG Meeting 2008 Boston Sponsored Sessions
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.
Association of Internet Researchers Conference
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
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Michael
Longan
Communication Director
Department of Geography and Meteorology
Valparaiso University
Valparasio, IN 46383