Media Turn

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This book examines the "media turn" in geography, proclaiming that media shape our understanding, experience, and production of space and place. Media are our very situation blurring the boundaries between information, data, perception, reason and reality. A critical theme is how media reinforce existing power structures, often leading to the marginalization or removal of voices. This is evident in the MV Joola shipwreck and it’s neglect of coverage by global media and in redlining practices in Omaha where strategic visualizations were used to justify racial policies and disinvestment. The rise of fake news highlights media's ability to prioritize affect over evidence for political objectives. Other chapters engage the media as our situation through a focus on affect, embodiment, and experience. The chapter on embodied videographies via GoPro allows for the haptical exploration of parochial spaces. Online teaching during Covid required faculty to become media producers who had to navigate technical, emotional and labor demands in production and delivery of a class. Fan responses to cinematic geography, like New Moon's and Star Wars locations demonstrate experiential verification and the affective consensus of jet setters are a part of the cinematic world. Chinese cinema's portrayal of the Chunyun migration shows the national psychology of a rural/urban process and a nostalgia for tradition and home. Finally, the collection examines human-technology partnerships in media production. This includes ethical complexities and new creative tools when making and using AI-co-created media (e.g., ChatGPT). Research on US university Extended Reality (XR) Labs show disciplinary disparities, with STEM plus health fields largely dominant. Podcasting, via the Chinese film criticism podcast Fanpai, is a transformative medium of cultural resistance and rhizomatic knowledge production, because it utilizes operational tactics while creating affective encounters and in so doing challenge restrictive Chinese censorship. Digitalization and mediatization transforms tourism industry and remote locations as shown in Finland's Turku Archipelago. This collection of essays investigates the different ways in which the media turn has impacted everyday and academic geographies.

Table of Contents

The Media Are Our Situation: An Introduction to Geography’s Media Turn

Chris Lukinbeal and Stanley D. Brunn...............................................

Part I: 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 II: Power, Representation, and the Unseen Geographies of Marginalization and Disinformation

Geographies of Silence and Omission in West Africa: A Case Study of Senegal’s Largest Humanitarian Disaster

Karen S. Barton..............................................................................

Fake News and Post-Truth Geographies

Barney Warf...................................................................................

Medial Constructions of Urban Imaginations

Stephan M. Pietsch.........................................................................

Omaha’s “Magic Geography:” Visualizing Racial Urban Placemaking in the 20th Century

Jeannette Gabriel and Christina Dando............................................

Part III: The Interplay of Affect, Embodiment, and Lived Experience in Mediated Spaces

Through the Aperture of the Parochial: Embodied Videography and Everyday (Circum)ambulation

Les Roberts....................................................................................

Feminist Geography and Media Production for Online Teaching and Learning

Karen Falconer Al-Hindi..................................................................

Nomadic Voice: Internet Guerrilla, Affect, and Rhizomatic Knowledge Production in Fanpai Film Criticism Podcast

Lu Wang........................................................................................

The Pacific Worlds Website: Representing Oceanic Indigenous Geographic Thought Through the Internet

RDK Herman..................................................................................

Part IV: Film, Spectacle, and Shifting Realities

The Nature of Spectacle: Arctic Amateur Documentary Film from the 1950s to Present

Daniel Grafton and Stuart C. Aitken.................................................

The Visual Media Worlds of Zoo 2.0: From Caged Animals to Websites of Animal Rights and Welfare

Shutian Li and Stanley D. Brunn.......................................................

Fields of Becoming: Bourdieu, Deleuze, and the Concept of Beauty in The Substance

Jim Craine and Aleksandra Craine....................................................

Projecting Places: Cinema’s Crimes Against Geography and the Case of the Vampirization of Italian Locations

Giorgio Avezzù...............................................................................

Star Wars Location Hunting: Film and Television Tourism as an Extension of Media Experience

Jacob Rowlett.................................................................................

Database Film and the Terrestrial Imaginary

Floris Paalman and Haitian Ma.......................................................

Part V: The Evolving Human-Technology Partnership in Media Production

Artificial Intelligence and Media Geography: From the Personal to the Nonhuman

Chris Lukinbeal...............................................................................

The Uneven Disciplinary Landscape of Academic Outputs from Extended Reality (XR) Labs at American Universities

A.R. Doery......................................................................................

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