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Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media Susan P. Mains · Julie Cupples Chris Lukinbeal Editors Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media Susan P. Mains • Julie Cupples Chris Lukinbeal Editors Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media 123 Editors Susan P. Mains Julie Cupples Geography Institute of Geography, University of Dundee School School of Geosciences of the Environment University of Edinburgh Dundee, UK Edinburgh, UK Chris Lukinbeal School of Geography and Development The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, USA ISBN 978-94-017-9968-3 ISBN 978-94-017-9969-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9969-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015953014 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer Science+Business Media B.V. Dordrecht is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www. springer.com) Dedicated to Fredy Humberto Patiño Durango Contents Section I Introducing Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media 1 Introducing Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media ...... 3 Julie Cupples, Chris Lukinbeal, and Susan P. Mains 2 Film Geography: A Review and Prospectus ............................. 21 Laura Sharp and Chris Lukinbeal 3 TV and the Spaces of Everyday Life ..................................... 37 Lynn Spigel 4 Cultural Industries and the (Geographical) Political Economy of the Media ..................................................... 65 Brett Christophers 5 A Brief History of Mediated, Sensational and Virtual Geographies ................................................................. 81 Stuart C. Aitken and James W. Craine Section II Media Production and Place 6 Chinese Cinema Cities: From the Margins to the Middle Kingdom ..................................................................... 95 Michael Curtin 7 US Television Travels Abroad: Global TV and the Formatting Trend ................................................. 111 Ann Fletchall 8 Geographies of the News................................................... 127 Mike Gasher 9 Remember the Alamo: A Place of Cinematic Experience.............. 141 Leo Zonn vii viii Contents Section III Transforming Geospatial Technologies and Media Cartographies 10 Vertical Mediation: Geospatial Imagery and the US Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq ................................................... 159 Lisa Parks 11 The Digital Globe and New Mediations of the Environment .......... 177 Leon Gurevitch 12 GIS as Media Through the Geoweb ...................................... 191 Daniel Sui and Bo Zhao 13 GIS as Media? .............................................................. 209 Matthew W. Wilson and Monica Stephens 14 Crowd-Sourced Augmented Realities: Social Media and the Power of Digital Representation................................. 223 Matthew Zook, Mark Graham, and Andrew Boulton Section IV Placing New Media Platforms 15 Science Blogging Below-the-Line: A Progressive Sense of Place?..... 243 Jonathan Mendel and Hauke Riesch 16 From Webcams to Facebook: Gay/Queer Men and the Performance of Situatedness-in-Displacement ...................... 261 Ken Hillis and Michael Petit 17 Placing Satellite Radio in the Contemporary Radio Landscape ...... 273 Sara Beth Keough Section V Image/Imagining Media Events and Spaces 18 Visibility, Media Events and Convergence Culture: Struggles for the Meaning of 9/11......................................... 293 Kevin Glynn 19 The Case of the Missing Laureate: The Communication Geography of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize ............................... 313 Paul C. Adams 20 From Bolt to Brand: Olympic Celebrations, Tourist Destinations and Media Landscapes ..................................... 329 Susan P. Mains Contents ix Section VI Transnational Media Production and Consumption 21 Development Communication, Popular Pleasure and Media Convergence ................................................... 351 Julie Cupples 22 Indigenous Media: Linking the Local, Translocal, Global and Virtual .................................................................. 367 Pamela Wilson 23 Salsation: Affective Encounters and the Right to the City ............. 385 Tamara M. Johnson Section VII Media Practices and Pedagogies 24 Mediated Geographies Across Arizona: Learning Literacy Skills Through Filmmaking ............................................... 401 Chris Lukinbeal, John C. Finn, John Paul Jones III, Christina Beal Kennedy, and Keith Woodward 25 Indigenous Media and Postcolonial Pedagogy........................... 417 Laurel C. Smith 26 Owning and Sharing Experiences of Adventure: Tourism, Video and Editing Practices ............................................... 433 Eric Laurier About the Authors ............................................................... 447 Index ............................................................................... 457 Section I Introducing Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media Introducing Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media 1 Julie Cupples, Chris Lukinbeal, and Susan P. Mains While “media geography” has coalesced in recent years as an identifiable subdiscipline of human geography, media geography did not emerge from a linear history, nor does it have a clearly defined or singular focus. Compiling this edition, participating in media geography networks at conferences and elsewhere, and teaching media at our respective institutions have all abundantly revealed that media geography is a subdiscipline with many different routes and trajectories. People come to identify as media geographers as a result of an interest in a particular medium such as film, television or radio, through the literature on the Internet and geographies of cyberspace, through critical and popular geopolitics, through questions of development and the digital divide, through media and cultural studies, through communication studies, through scholarship on the city and urban studies, and through GIS, the geoweb and geospatial technologies. Media geography intersects with social and cultural geography, development geography, political geography, feminist geography, economic geography and GIS. One of the major contributions of media productions, spaces and analyses are the opportunities they offer for providing an entryway into understanding places and communities that we may otherwise rarely, if ever encounter—but this can be problematic when the identity and places that are being marked as yours, no longer appear recognisable, J. Cupples Institute of Geography, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, UK e-mail: [email protected] C. Lukinbeal School of Geography and Development, The University of Arizona, Harvill Building 437B, 85721 Tucson, AZ, USA e-mail: [email protected] S.P. Mains () Geography, School of the Environment, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, DD1 4HN, UK e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 3 S.P. Mains et al. (eds.), Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media, DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9969-0_1 4 J. Cupples et al. representative and/or desirable. The contributions in this collection pay close attention to such opportunities and challenges posed by a range of media formats, contexts and methods. These diverse entry points make for a rich emerging field in which a number of voices and perspectives are present. The field is further complicated and enriched by scholars in media studies who have turned to human geography and human geographic concepts, in order to take space, place and scale seriously in their analyses of media texts, industries and audiences. Given the diversity of the field, we thought it valuable as editors to write three position pieces that situate our work, and us personally, within the broader project represented by the scholars in this volume. Susan P.Mains, University of Dundee Although media permeates our lives, the ways in which mediated spaces become embedded in our personal narratives are not always apparent until much later or when a specific place, conversation or television programme acts as a prompt, reminding us of something that reappears and coalesces with other times and places. When I was a child, one of my favourite activities involved spending an evening watching a collection of homemade Super 8 mm cine films—an emotive occasion that brought our immediate family together and various friends who popped
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