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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.