2012 Stanley D. Brunn Student Paper Awards
The Communication Geography Specialty Group (COMGEOG) invites students to submit papers for the 2012 Stanley D. Brunn Student Paper Awards. This competition recognizes outstanding work by students pursuing research in geographical aspects of communication, including:
- communication infrastructure
- place images in the media
- representations of visual landscapes
- soundscapes
- national and regional identities in discourse
- public and private spaces of communication
- spaces of social networking
- places analyzed as communication contexts
- strategies for communicating with students, public and policy-makers
Entrants need not be members of COMGEOG but they must be scheduled to present their papers at the 2012 AAG meeting. The $100 first prize is generously supported by Stanley Brunn. There are two $50 runner-up prizes funded by the Specialty Group. To be eligible, papers must be sole-authored by a currently enrolled student or dual-authored with a currently enrolled student as the lead author.
Papers will be judged by a panel of recognized geographers with expertise in various aspects of communication geography. They will be judged on the basis of originality, clarity, relevance to the discipline, and potential for publication. Formatting must be suitable for the Annals of the AAG, Geographical Review, Professional Geographer, Environment and Planning D, Political Geography, or another refereed journal. Length must be between 5,000 and 8,000 words. Files must be in pdf, doc, or docx format. Figures may be embedded or sent separately as jpg or gif files (please do not send tiff or bmp files). The name(s) and contact information of authors should be on a cover page along with the paper title but not indicated in the body of the paper in order to facilitate the review process.
E-mail entries by February 13 to:
Prizes will be announced at the Specialty Group Business Meeting, Saturday, February 25, 7:30-8:30pm. Plan to come to the Specialty Group Business Meeting if you enter the competition.