Susan P. Mains & Julie Cupples 
Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media [PDF ebook] 

Section 1: Introducing Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media.- Chapter 1. Introducing Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media.- Chapter 2. Film Geography: A Review and Prospectus.- Chapter 3. TV and the Spaces of Everyday Life.- Chapter 4. Cultural industries and the (geographical) political economy of the media.- Chapter 5. A Brief History of Mediated, Sensational and Virtual Geographies.- Section 2: Media Production and Place.- Chapter 6. Chinese Cinema Cities: From the Margins to the Middle Kingdom.- Chapter 7. US Television Travels Abroad: Global TV and the Formatting Trend.- Chapter 8. Geographies of the News.- Chapter 9. Remember the Alamo: A Place of Cinematic Experience.- Section 3: Transforming Geospatial Technologies and Media Cartographies.- Chapter 10. Vertical Mediation: Geospatial Imagery and the US Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.- Chapter 11. The Digital Globe and New Mediations of the Environment.- Chapter 12. GIS as Media through the Geoweb.- Chapter 13. GIS as Media?.- Chapter 14. Crowd-Sourced Augmented Realities: Social Media and the Power of Digital Representation.- Section 4: Placing New Media Platforms.- Chapter 15. Science blogging below-the-line: a progressive sense of place?.- Chapter 16. From Webcams to Facebook: Gay/Queer Men and the Performance of Situatedness-in-Displacement.- Chapter 17. Placing Satellite Radio in the Contemporary Radio Landscape.- Section 5: Image/Imagining Media Events and Spaces.- Chapter 18. Visibility, Media Events and Convergence Culture: Struggles for the Meaning of 9/11.- Chapter 19. The Case of the Missing Laureate: The Communication Geography of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.- Chapter 20. From Bolt to Brand: Olympic Celebrations, Tourist Destinations and Media Landscapes.- Section 6: Transnational Media Production and Consumption.- Chapter 20. Development communication, popular pleasure and media convergence.- Chapter 21. Indigenous Media: Linking the Local, Translocal, Global and Virtual.- Chapter 22. Salsation: Affective Encounters and the Right to the City.- Section 7: Media Practices and Pedagogies.- Chapter 23. Mediated Geographies Across Arizona: Learning Literacy Skills through Filmmaking.- Chapter 24. Indigenous Media and Postcolonial Pedagogy.- Chapter 25. Owning and sharing experiences of adventure: tourism, video and editing practices.- Chapter 26. List of Contributors.

Susan P. Mains is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Dundee. Her work explores transnational identities and media representations of mobility, borders, and security in the context of Caribbean migration, creative industries in Jamaica and Scotland, and heritage tourism. She has published in a range of international journals including Social and Cultural Geography, Geo Journal, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, The Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, and Caribbean Geography. Her previous work has been funded through the University of the West Indies, the Association of American Geographers and the American Geographical Society. Currently she is the coordinator for a Carnegie Trust funded project, “Ties to the Tay, ” which utilises participatory filmmaking as part of an interdisciplinary project between a group of academics at the University of Dundee, the Nethergate Writers, artists, and community organisations. She is also a partner in a Royal Society of Edinburgh funded collaborative project exploring representations of place and landscape connections between the Scottish Highlands and the Caribbean. Julie Cupples is Reader in Human Geography and Co-Director of the Global Development Academy at the University of Edinburgh. She joined the University of Edinburgh in 2013 after more than a decade working at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Her research interests span cultural geography, development studies and media and cultural studies. Since the early 1990s, she has been working in Central America, primarily Nicaragua, and has published widely on questions of development/postdevelopment; revolution and conflict; neoliberal economic policies; gender; disasters and environmental risk; electoral geographies and municipal governance. She is currently engaged in a collaborative research project exploring the geographic dimensions of media convergence, funded by the Marsden Fundof the Royal Society of New Zealand. This project is exploring the democratizing and decolonizing dimensions of the new media environment, with a focus on mainstream entertainment media as well as community and indigenous media operations. She is the author of Latin American Development (Routledge, 2013) and the co-author of Media/Communications/Geographies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (forthcoming with Routledge). Chris Lukinbeal holds a B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. in Geography. He is an Associate Professor and Associate Director in the School of Geography and Development at The University of Arizona and the Director of Geographic Information Systems Technology programs and of the Geospatial Innovation Science and Technology center. He has published over 50 academic papers and book chapters related to topics ranging from representation, media, GIS, remote sensing, cartography, urban geography, mental maps and GIS, landscape studies, and education.