Geographys Media Turn: Exploring the Digital, Affective, and Unseen [Hardcover]

This edited volume examines how the arts and sciences have had to adapt, engage, confront, and even alter research, teaching, and community service because of modern media. The book describes how academics work with and through the media in their daily and professional lives. The acceleration of changes to media in the digital age has been astounding whether due to social media, web 2.0, new sensor technologies, fake news, or the rise of a post-truth news media economy. Many academics became media producers during COVID-19 having to engage in emergency remote teaching. Further, as academics, we can no longer publish our results and expect a metered response from all entities but rather must promote and defend our work in the media and the classroom. There is almost no part of academic work, let alone human life, that is not affected by media. Many academics across the sciences and humanities now embrace the media as part of their daily practice and actively engage in media production through building podcasts and convergent media sites, managing online courses and degree programs, or being administrators or educators who interact with the media regularly at local, national, or international scales. The chapters are original and written by a group of interdisciplinary junior and senior scholars from various world regions.

The Media Are Our Situation: An Introduction to Geography’s Media Turn (Chris Lukinbeal and Stanley D. Brunn).- Part 1. The Pervasiveness and Dynamic Evolution of Media in Shaping Geographic Understanding.- From Spatial, Geographical to Pan-Geographical: Developmental Trajectories and Research Frameworks of the Chinese Film Geography (Qian Jiang and Chen Sihan).- The Urban–Rural Transformation in Chinese Cinema since 1978 (Wu Yanfang).- Media and Digitalization in Spatially Divergent Islands: Representing Archipelago Nature, Remoteness and Tourism Economy (Tommi Inkinen).- Part 2. Power, Representation,lÃÊ