[ecrea] New thematic section from Culture Unbound: "Rural Media Spaces"

> New thematic section from
> Culture Unbound: “Rural Media Spaces” 
> http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/current-volume.html
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> Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural research is a new
> open access e-journal that seeks to be a forum for contemporary, cutting
> edge cultural research from a wide range of disciplinary and
> interdisciplinary areas. Culture Unbound has just published a new
> thematic section dedicated to the theme “Rural Media Spaces”.
>  
> This section is edited by Magnus Andersson and André
> Jansson and it comprises seven articles that in different ways
> focuses on how the processes of globalization and mediatization affect
> the places beyond cities: What happens to rural spaces and rural
> societies in terms of connectivity, representation and social
> significance? These questions indicate a potential research agenda that
> corresponds to the emerging subfield of communication geography that
> engages with the dual question of how communication produces space and
> how space produces communication. This thematic section of Culture
> Unbound is thus an attempt to bring together an interdisciplinary
> group of scholars and provide a common ground for research on the
> relationship between mediation, mediatization and rural spaces in the
> global era.
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>
> Featured articles are:
> Magnus Andersson & André Jansson, “Rural Media Spaces:
> Communication Geography on New Terrain”
> Lelia Green, “Imagining Rural Audiences in Remote Western
> Australia”
> Maria Bakardjieva & Amanda Williams, “Super Network on the
> Prairie: The Discursive Framing of Broadband Connectivity by Policy
> Planners and Rural Residents in Alberta, Canada”
> André Jansson, “Mediatization, Spatial Coherence and Social
> Sustainability: The Role of Digital Media Networks in a Swedish
> Countryside Community”
> Magnus Andersson, “Provincial Globalization: The Local Struggle of
> Place-Making”
> Michael Woods, “Reporting an Unsettled Countryside: The News Media
> and Rural Protests in Britain”
> Keith Halfacree, “Reading Rural Consumption Practices for
> Difference: Bolt-holes, Castles and Life-rafts”
>  
> Along with this thematic section we also publish two new articles within
> the wider field f cultural research: Martina Ladendorf’s 
> ”Commercialization of Lesbian Identities in Showtime’s The L-Word”
> and Defne Karaosmanoglu’s, ”Nostalgia Spaces of Consumption and
> Heterotopia: Ramadan Festivities in Istanbul”.
>  
> You can access all articles for free at:
> http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/current-volume.html
>  
>
> We also welcome new article manuscripts in all areas of cultural
> research, as well as proposals for future theme sections.
>  
> Martin Fredriksson
> Executive Editor
> Culture Unbound
> (Martin.fredriksson /at/ liu.se)

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