Geographies of media and communication: a critical introduction
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
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| adam_text | Titel: Geographies of media and communication
Autor: Adams, Paul C.
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xiii
List of Abbreviations xv
1 Introduction 1
2 From the Spoken Word to the Alphabet 13
3 From the Printing Press to the Electromagnetic Signal 29
4 Communication Flows and Flowmations 43
5 Topologies of Communication 69
6 Inclusion/Exclusion 87
7 Virtuality and Scattered Gatherings 108
8 Signs, Symbols, and Signals 123
9 The Place Image 139
10 Internalization/Externalization 154
11 Place and the Power of Communication 167
12 Traces and Routines 180
13 Geographies of Expressive Being-in-Place 198
14 Final Thoughts 214
Bibliography 222
Index 255
Figures
1.1 The quadrant diagram: schematic organization of the four major
sections of Geographies of Media and Communication 4
2.1 (a) Complex tokens from Susa, Iran, c.3300 bce. (b) Cuneiform
tablet recording the allocation of beer, probably from southern
Iraq. Late Prehistoric period, about 3100-3000 bce 20
2.2 Proto-Canaanite abjad, reconstructed, fifteenth to eleventh
centuries bce, with the ancestors of the many Latin letters,
such as A, B, G, and D 23
2.3 Global distribution of writing systems, grouped by general type.
Western hemisphere excluded 25
2.4 A page of an online newspaper from Tohoku, Japan shows
the integration of various writing systems in a typical page of
printed Japanese 26
3.1 Undersea portions of the international telegraph cable network
in 1911 38
4.1 Shannon and Weaver model 45
4.2 Two-step model 47
4.3 Telephone time-space convergence between New York and
San Francisco, 1920 to 1970 49
4.4 Telephone cost-space convergence between New York and
San Francisco, 1920 to 1970 50
4.5 An expanded model of the process of spatial reorganization
indicating simultaneous time-space convergence and time-space
divergence 51
4.6 Plot of gross domestic product versus percentage of population
with mainline telephone access, by country 53
4.7 Geographic distribution of telephone access, by country 54
x Figures
4.8 Plot of gross domestic product versus the ratio of cellular (mobile)
telephone subscriptions to the total population 55
4.9 Geographic distribution of cell phone access, by country 56
4.10 The Internet backbone in the USA 60
4.11 The Internet backbone in Europe 60
4.12 Plot of gross domestic product versus percentage of the national
population who accesses the Internet, by country 63
4.13 Geographic distribution of Internet users 64
4.14 Plot of gross domestic product versus number of Internet hosts
per 1000 persons, by country 65
4.15 Geographic distribution of Internet hosts 65
5.1 The small world network as midway between a regular network
and a random network 72
5.2 A power-law distribution, y = x~l[+k 75
5.3 The power-law distribution, y = xAi+k) (with k = 1) 75
5.4 Number of visits to websites by AOL users on a day in
December 1997 76
5.5 (a) A group of people mapped onto a set of interests which
they share at varying levels, ranging from 1 (weak) to 3 (strong).
(b) Backcloth created by weak, medium, and strong links
indicated in (a) 78
5.6 The rank-size distribution of urban settlements in the United
States, 1790-1990 80
5.7 Communication topologies of some familiar places: (a) the
classroom, church, or concert hall; (b) the business office; and
(c) the round table or cocktail party 83
5.8 The Panopticon, 1791, a structure for the control of various
populations including workers, prison inmates, and patients 84
6.1 In Montreal, English dominates in certain neighborhoods while
French dominates in other neighborhoods 94
6.2 Varying rates of access to the Internet based on age, race, ethnicity,
and education 102
6.3 Warning sign at Groom Lake CIA weapons testing facility, a.k.a.
Area 51, Nevada 104
7.1 A screen shot from an online role-playing game, World of
Warcraft® 116
8.1 Diagram showing the text, its context, and constituents - the
components of an atomic view of communication 123
8.2 The Indian in art - a complex symbol. Chief, by Dallas artist
Rick Timmons 132
9.1 Hands, a photograph from Tim Edensor s British Industrial
Ruins website 151
9.2 Steps, a photograph from Tim Edensor s British Industrial
Ruins website 151
Figures xi
12.1 Hagerstrand s model of time-space 184
12.2 A diagram of hybrid accessibility showing mobility at the scale
of an Ohio county and communications at the scale of the
region (bottom) and the world (top) 186
12.3 Diagrams of personal extensibility in space-time 187
12.4 A map of the world using the Mercator projection 192
13.1 The Mojave phone booth, once one of the most remote public
telephones in the USA 199
13.2 Madres of the Plaza de Mayo walking to protest the
disappearance of their children in the late 1970s and early 1980s,
during Argentina s Dirty War 206
13.3 Olive Bieringa of the Body Cartography Project, performing GO:
Nicollet Avenue, August 12 and 13, 2005, in Minneapolis 207
13.4 Dalcroze eurhythmies movements: Beating and stepping
in 4/4 time 208
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