New Media & Society
Special Issue
Abstract Deadline: November 1st 2020.
Edited by: Karin Fast (Karlstad University) and Pablo Abend (University of Siegen)
Overview
There has been an increased interest in the process of place-making by means of technology. Spurred by the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, and the appearance of new location-aware technologies, the nexus between geography and media came into focus of media and communication studies. While the majority of work within the field of geography and media focus on contemporary developments, this volume wants to address the nexus of geography and media from a historical perspective. Such a perspective serves to counterbalance dominant discourses – produced not least by ICT companies and policy makers but also by academics – about the “revolutionary” traits of new location-aware media. „CfP Geomedia Histories“ weiterlesen