Media Geography

"Media intervenes and arbitrates the semiological chain of signifieds and signifers, infusing signs with meaning, ideology and hegemony. It is simultaneously naturalized as it intervenes, producing simulacra that allow ideology to appear as fact and myth to appear as truth" (Lukinbeal, Craine, Dittmer 2007, 1)

This anthology is the first comprehensive volume to explore and engage with current trends in Geographies of Media research. It reviews how conceptualizations of mediated geographies have evolved. Followed by an examination of diverse media contexts and locales, the book illustrates key issues through the integration of theoretical and empirical case studies, and reflects on the future challenges and opportunities faced by scholars in this field. 

This book fills a lacuna in geographical research: the role of television in place-making. In this introductory chapter we elaborate mediated place as process. We position the study within media studies in geography and articulate our perspective through an interrogation of key issues in place and representation.





Lukinbeal, Chris and Laura Sharp.  2015. Performing America’s Toughest Sheriff: Media as Practice in Joe Arpaio’s Old West.  Geojournal (6)20: 881-892.


UA, ASU, NAU, Student Videos here & Latinx 

Lukinbeal, Chris, Christina B. Kennedy; John Paul Jones III; John Finn; Keith A. Woodward; David Nelson; Zane Austin Grant; Nicole Antonopoulos; Ari Palos; Carol Atkinson-Palombo.   2007. Mediated Geographies: Critical Pedagogy and Geographic Education.  Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 69: 31-44. 

Lukinbeal, Chris, John Finn, John Paul Jones, Christina Kennedy, and Keith Woodward.  2015. Mediated Geographies Across Arizona: Learning Literacy Skills through Filmmaking. In, Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media, Springer, Science and Business Media series, International Handbooks of Human Geography.  Edited by, Susan Mains, Julie Cupples, and Chris Lukinbeal.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 401-416.

Publications

Finn, John, and Chris Lukinbeal.  2009. Musical Cartographies: Ritmos de los Barrios de la Habana.  In, Sound, Society and the Geography of Popular Music. pp. 127-144.  Edited by Ola Johansson and Thomas Bell. Surrey, England: Ashgate.

Lukinbeal, Chris, and Jim Craine.  2009. Geographic Media Literacy: an introduction. GeoJournal 74: 175–182.

Lukinbeal, Chris, James Craine, and Jason Dittmer.  2007. Aether: A Prospectus.  Aether: The Journal of Media Geography 1: 1-3.

Craine, James, Jason Dittmer, and Chris Lukinbeal.  2008. Introduction.  Aether: The Journal of Media Geography 3, 1.

Lukinbeal, Chris, Laura Sharp, Elisbeth Sommerlad, Anton Escher (eds.).  2019. Media’s Mapping Impulse.  Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.  

Stieve, Tom and Chris Lukinbeal.  2017. Popular Culture. In Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology.  New York: Wiley Press.