Communication Geography at the AAG Annual Meeting in New York, 2012

The Communication Geography Specialty group will be well represented at this year's annual meeting in New York. In addition to 14 Media Geography sessions covering all forms of media, sponsored sessions focus upon virtual communities, crisis communication, deaf geographies, humor, communication technologies, and communication about climate change.  Below you'll find details on sponsored sessions as well as a link to the announcement for the Communication Geography Specialty Group Student Paper competition.

Of special note is the session "Communication Geography: A View from across the Interdisciplinary Divide." Dr. Andre Jansson, from Karlstad, Sweden, will speak at length about what "communication geography" means to an expert in media and communication theory. Afterwards, several notables from our side of the disciplinary divide will have a chance to offer comments and questions. This is a major step to develop communication geography as a subdiscipline, and we are very excited to have the opportunity to Dr. Jansson to the AAG (thanks in part to generous support from an AAG Enrichment Grant).

Finally please join us for the specialty group annual business meeting Saturday, February 25 from 7:30-8:30 PM in Liberty 5, Third Floor, Sheraton Hotel. 

 Stanley D. Brunn Student Paper Awards

Communication Geography Specialty Group Sponsored Sessions

• "Good Luck with That!" Toward Successful Communication of Climate Change Adaptation
• Applications of the GeoWeb: utilizing user-generated content for geographic research
• Celebrity, Media and Vital Causes
• Communicating Through Crisis I
• Communicating Through Crisis II
• Communication Geography Specialty Group Business Meeting
• Communication Geography: a view from across the Interdisciplinary Divide
• Deaf Geographies I - Foundations for Deaf Geographies
• Deaf Geographies II - Analyzing Deaf Geographies
• Deaf Geographies III -The Future of Deaf Geographies
• Geographies of Media I, "The Vanishing City" (2009): New York Gentrification, Globalization, and Documentary Film
• Geographies of Media 2: Spatialities of Sound and Rhythm
• Geographies of Media 3: Geographies of Music
• Geographies of Media 4: Cinema
• Geographies of Media 5: New Media
• Geographies of Media 6: Cultural Politics and the News
• Geographies of Media 7: Visualising the Visceral I, Film as a Research Output
• Geographies of Media 8: Visualising the Visceral II, Texting the Film
• Geographies of Media 9: The Aurality of Place
• Geographies of Media 10: The Fight to Stay Put
• Geographies of Media 11: Seed Spirit: The Otomi of Carolina del Norte - a film by Altha Cravey and Elva Bishop
• Geographies of Media 12: Author Meets Critics - An engaged and critical discussion of Ken Hillis' Online a Lot of the Time: Ritual, Fetish, Sign' (Duke University Press, 2009)
• Geographies of Media 13: Space and Video Games
• Geographies of Media 14: Ideology of the Other
• HONORING JAMES O. WHEELER, SESSION I: INFORMATION AND TRANSPORTATION GEOGRAPHY
• Humor as a Political Resource
• Humor, Space, Power
• Iron Sheep: An open session dedicated to lightning mapping and understanding VGI in the "wild"
• Islands, Arts and the Geographical Imaginations
• Mobile phone data and geographic modelling
• Role of Information and Communication Technology in Urban and Regional Development
• Social Justice and Media: The Role of Information Technologies in Mediterranean Democratic Movements
• Social Media, Research, and Pedagogy
• Spaces of Geopolitical Discourse and Performance
• Spaces of Humor
• Spatial Dimensions of Global Information Society
• Virtual Communities I: Social Media
• Virtual Communities II: Volunteered Geographic Information