Communications/Media/Geographies Routledge Studies in Human Geography Series

Although there are human geographers who have previously written on matters of media and communication, and those in media and communication studies who have previously written on geographical issues, this is the first book-length dialogue in which experienced theorists and researchers from these different fields address each other directly and engage in conversation across traditional academic boundaries. The result is a compelling discussion, with the authors setting out statements of their positions before responding to the arguments made by others.

One significant aspect of this discussion is a spirited debate about the sort of interdisciplinary area that might emerge as a focus for future work. Does the already-established idea of communication geography offer the best way forward? If so, what would applied or critical forms of communication geography be concerned to do? Could communication geography benefit from the sorts of conjunctural analysis that have been developed in contemporary cultural studies? Might a further way forward be to imagine an interdisciplinary field of everyday-life studies, which would draw critically on non-representational theories of practice and movement?

Readers of Communications/Media/Geographies are invited to join the debate, thinking through such questions for themselves, and the themes that are explored in this book (for example, of space, place, meaning, power, and ethics) will be of interest not only to academics in human geography and in media and communication studies, but also to a wider range of scholars from across the humanities and social sciences.

List of Figures

Preface

Introduction

Paul C. Adams, Julie Cupples, Kevin Glynn, and André Jansson

Part I: Positions

1. Communication Geography: Pragmatic Goals

Paul C. Adams

2. Postcolonial Spaces of Discursive Struggle in the Convergent Media Environment

Julie Cupples and Kevin Glynn

3. Critical Communication Geography: Space, Recognition, and the Dialectics of Mediatization

André Jansson

4. Arguments for a Non-Media-Centric, Non-Representational Approach to Media and Place

Shaun Moores

Part II: Reflections

5. For an Ethic of Broader Recognition

Paul C. Adams

6. For Representation and Geographic Specificity

Julie Cupples and Kevin Glynn

7. For Communication Geography

André Jansson

8. For Everyday-Life Studies

Shaun Moores

9. Parting Thoughts

Paul C. Adams, Julie Cupples, Kevin Glynn, André Jansson and Shaun Moores

Index

Paul C. Adams is Professor of Geography at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Julie Cupples is Reader in Human Geography and Co-director of the Global Development Academy at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Kevin Glynn teaches in the Media Studies program at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand.

André Jansson is Professor of Media and Communication Studies and Director of the Geomedia Research Group at Karlstad University, Sweden.

Shaun Moores is Professor of Media and Communications at the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, UK.