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Author Adams, Paul C.

Title Geographies of media and communication : a critical introduction / Paul C. Adams
Published Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

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Description xvi, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Series Critical introductions to geography
Critical introductions to geography.
Contents From the spoken word to the alphabet -- From the printing press to the digital signal -- Communication flows and flowmations -- Topologies of communication -- Inclusion/exclusion -- Virtuality and scattered gatherings -- Signs, symbols and signals -- The place image -- Internalization/externalization -- Place and the power of communication -- Traces and routines -- Geographies of expressive being-in-place -- Final thoughts
Summary "From the invention of the telegraph to the emergence of the Internet, communications technologies have transformed the ways that people and places relate to each other. Geographies of Media and Communication is the first textbook to treat all aspects of geography's variegated encounter with communication." "Connecting geographical ideas with communication theories such as intertextuality, audience-centered theory, and semiotics, Paul C. Adams explores media representations of places, the spatial diffusion of communication technologies, and the power of communication technologies to transform places, and to dictate who does and does not belong in them."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Communication and geography.
Communication and technology.
Communication in geography.
Mass media and technology.
Semiotics.
LC no. 2008032200
ISBN 9781405154130 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781405154147 (paperback: alk. paper)