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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.

Communication Geography sponsored 22 sessions at the 2009 AAG meeting in Las Vegas.

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
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

 

 

Aether Calls for Papers

Aether: the journal of media geography invites submission of papers for a special issue on 'The Geographies of Journalism'. Submissions should be sent no later than March 1, 2008.

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 for Papers
The Communication Geography Specialty group is sponsoring the the following sessions that have issued calls for papers:

• Geographies of Media
• Situating Sat Nav: Questioning the Tom Tom Effect
• Subversive Cartographies for Social Change
• Representation, Participation, and Governance in the
  'Digital Age'
• Graffiti, Landscape Inscription, and Marked Places/Bodies

2007 San Francisco Meeting Sponsored Sessions

• Software and Space (2 Sessions)
• Media Geographies (6 Sessions)
• Google Earth as the 'view from nowhere': The spatial politics of high resolution satellite imagery (2 Sessions)
• Bringing Geography to the World (Panel Session)

2007 San Francisco Meeting Calls for Papers

• Bringing Geography to the World (PDF)
• Media Geography (PDF)
• The Geography of Telecommunications Technologies (PDF)
• Software and Space (PDF)
• Economic geographies of the corporate knowledge economy (PDF)
• The Geography of Information-Technology Enabled Services: New Empirical and Theoretical Insights

2007 Student Paper Competition
The award for the 2007 student paper competition will be increased from $50 to $100. Look for information about the 2007 competition soon.

2006 Student Paper Competition
The winner of the 2006 student paper competition was Leigh Schwartz, a Master's degree candidate at San Diego State University. She received an award of $50 for her paper: "Othering in Video Games: Representation of Foreign Cultures in World of Warcraft, Suikoden III, Shenmue, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas." COMGEOG thanks the judges for their effort and cooperation.

Membership Grows!
CGSG membership has grown significantly in the past year approaching nearly 100 geographers. We welcome all of those members who have recently joined the specialty group!

Chicago 2006 Sessions
COMGEOG sponsored nine very successful sessions at the 2006 meeting, including two panel sessions and seven paper sessions. Summaries of the sessions and abstracts are available.

Elections
At the annual business meeting in Chicago Darren Purcell was elected as Secretary/Treasurer replacing Barney Warf. Melanie McCalmont was elected to a second term as Student Liason and Michael Longan was elected to a second term as Communications Director. The terms for these positions are through March 2008. Paul Adams remains Chair of the specialty group until his term expires in 2007.

Deadlines Extended

Since the AAG has extended the deadlines for abstract submissions to November 3, you have some additional time to send your communication geography related abstract and presenter number to Paul Adams (paul.adams@mail.utexas.edu) for inclusion in a sponsored session.

Sessions at the 2006 AAG Meeting

The Communication Geography Specialty Group (COMGEOG) will be glad to sponsor sessions for the 2006 AAG Meeting that are 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. Paper presenters who would like to be matched up with people presenting on related topics are encouraged to send us their abstracts and we will organize sessions related to themes A and B above. In past years, COMGEOG has sponsored sessions related to cinematic and televisual geographies, performance, print and advertising, geopolitics and place representation, cyberspace and the Internet, and other topics. If you are unsure whether your research fits in with the interests of COMGEOG feel free to contact Paul Adams at: paul.adams@mail.utexas.edu. Further Details

 

Student Paper Competition at the 2006 AAG Meeting

The Communication Geography Specialty Group, will be offering a $50 student paper prize for the first time at the 2006 AAG meeting. See the Call For Papers (HTML format or PDF format) for complete details on eligibility and submission information.

 

Panel Session on Spaces of Communication Chicago AAG Meeting

A panel session on “spaces of communication” is being planned for the 2006 AAG meeting in Chicago that will bring together geographers with expertise in communication technologies and geographers with expertise in representations, images and discourses.