地理媒介与第三空间:西方媒介与传播地理学研究进展

Translated title of the contribution: Geomedia and thirdspace: The progress of research of geographies of media and communication in the West

Weitao Wang, Min Zhang

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Abstract

Since the rise of geomedia in recent years, the previous boundaries between production and consumption, and between technical object and symbolic representation in urban public space and everyday life space are increasingly blurred, leading to the need for theoretical innovation in terms of the "virtual/physical" dualism in geography. The development of geographies of media and communication, which is the outcome of the "spatial turn" of media research and the "communication turn" of geography, contains the potential to break through the dualism. This article reviewed the core concepts, main issues, and research framework of geographies of media and communication in order to promote the academic dialogue between Chinese scholars in geography and media and communication studies, as well as to expand the research field of Chinese human geography. First, geographies of media and communication in Western geography was founded on the dynamic relational notions of media and space that were deeply influenced by postmodernism and posthumanism thoughts, including core concepts such as texture, mobility, materiality, and embodiment. Second, existing studies mainly focus on the spatiality of digital media and posthumanism media, the hybrid space politics dominated by digital media representation and algorithmic logic, as well as the hybrid space experience brought by mobile media. Finally, this article referred to the "thirdspace" as a potential direction for geographies of media and communication to surpass the previous dualism, and materiality and embodiment serve as the ontological bridge between media and space.
Translated title of the contributionGeomedia and thirdspace: The progress of research of geographies of media and communication in the West
Original languageChinese (Simplified)
Pages (from-to)1082-1096
Number of pages15
JournalProgress in Geography
Volume41
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Jun 2022

Keywords

  • geographies of media and communication
  • geomedia
  • texture
  • mobility
  • materiality
  • embodiment
  • thirdspace

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