This Companion provides an authoritative source for scholars and students of the nascent field of media geography. By indicating the sub-disciplines evolution and hinting at its future, this volume not only serves to encapsulate what geographers have learned about media but also will help to set the agenda for expanding this type of interdisciplinary exploration.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures and Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Geographies of Media - Paul C. Adams, Jim Craine and Jason Dittmer
• PART I: MEDIA
• 1 Photography - Steven Hoelscher
• 2 Film - Deborah Dixon
• 3 Radio - Alasdair Pinkerton
• 4 Comic Books - Jason Dittmer
• 5 Stamps and the Postal System - Pauliina Raento
• 6 Dance - Derek McCormack
• 7 Video Games - James Ash
• 8 The Internet - Darren Purcell
• PART II: PLACES
• 9 Places of Mediated Nature - David Lulka
• 10 Bodies - Julie Cupples
• 11 Places of Interiority - Stuart C. Aitken
• 12 Syncretic (S)p[l]aces - Giorgio Hadi Curti and Tamara M. Johnson
• 13 Haunted Places - Colin Gardner
• 14 Advertising Place - Jim Craine, Chris Dando and Ron Davidson
• 15 Places of Graffiti - John Finn
• PART III: SPACES
• 16 Spaces of the Word - Paul C. Adams
• 17 Spaces of Mediated Sound - Michael Bull
• 18 Spaces of Telemediated Sociability - Barney Warf
• 19 Spaces of Volunteered Geographic Information - Ate Poorthuis and Matthew Zook
• 20 Spaces of Affect - Paul Simpson
• 21 Spaces of Mediated Performance - Katrinka Somdahl-Sands and Paul C. Adams
• 22 Spaces of Media Capital - Brett Christophers
• Acknowledgments
• References