Communication as Spatial Production: Expanding the Research Agenda of Communication Geography. (February 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lindell, Johan
• Is Part Of: Space and culture. Volume 19:Number 1(2016:Feb.)
• Page Start: 56
• Page End: 66
• Publication Date: 2016-02
• Subjects: communication geography -- spatiality -- medium theory -- social phenomenology -- epistemology; Human geography -- Periodicals; Spatial behavior -- Periodicals; Space (Architecture) -- Periodicals; Personal space -- Periodicals; Human ecology -- Periodicals; Comportement spatial -- Périodiques; Espace (Architecture) -- Périodiques; Espace personnel -- Périodiques; 304.205
• DOI: 10.1177/1206331215596480
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1552-8308

Abstract

The founders of the interdisciplinary field of communication geography argue that the field carries the potential to provide a processual view of communication as spatial production. This article sets out to delineate this underexplored aspect of communication geography. The aim is to expand the research agenda of communication geography by acknowledging the role of everyday social interaction on the one hand, and media environments on the other, in producing and maintaining peoples' taken-for-granted senses of space. This focus is guided by combining central insights of social phenomenology and medium theory. In synthesizing these positions, a research agenda emerges that emphasizes the capacity of media to "mold" the scope and character of communication that in turn maintain the scope and character of taken-for-granted space in everyday reality.