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COMGEOG Student Paper Competition The Communication Geography Specialty Group will be awarding three paper prizes to student participants at the 2010 AAG meeting, in Washington DC. More details are available from the competition announcement [pdf]. 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.
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.
Communication Geography Sessions and Specialty Group Meeting at the 2009 Meeting of the AAG in Las Vegas The Communication Geography Specialty Group is sponsoring 22 sessions at the Las Vegas meeting of the AAG. Highlights include 13 sessions on Media Geography, two sessions asking "Is Google Good for Geography?", and sessions on mobility, measuring Internet traffic, online politics, and e-commerce. The Communication Geography Specialty Group meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, 3/25/09, from 11:50 AM - 12:50 PM in North Hall N117, Las Vegas Convention Center.
Call for Papers: Australia/New Zealand Communication Associaton Digital and Social Media Stream The 2009 conference of the Australia/New Zealand Communication Association will take place in Brisbane on 8-10 July 2009. Papers are being sought from across a range of disciplines for the Digtal and Social Media stream as well as the overall conference. Call for Papers: 'MODERNITY 2.0': EMERGING SOCIAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR IMPACTS 9th International Conference of Sociocybernetics. Urbino, Italy 29 June- 5 July 2009 Emerging
Ethical Issues of Life in Virtual Worlds 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 Aether, an online, peer-reviewed journal, invites submission of papers for a special issue focusing on the geographies of interactive visual media and gaming, to be published in early 2008. AAG Meeting 2008 Boston Calls
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