Paul C Adams
Biographic Data
| ID | 130549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul C Adams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul C |
| FAMILY NAME | Adams |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMS P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9303-0027 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 499 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Introduction: New Messages/New Media
How can geographers recalibrate their communications to more effectively build and disseminate knowledge? How can geographers mobilize old and new media in the pursuit of policy relevance? What confluences of messages and media are involved in engaged scholarship? How can we strengthen communications among geographers of various types and listen more attentively to a range of stakeholders beyond our disciplinary boundaries? What does it take to b…
Introduction: Yi-Fu Tuan and the Expanding Cosmos of Human Geography
This GeoHumanities Forum explores the continuing relevance of works by the geographer Yi-Fu Tuan (1930–2022). Beyond his obvious legacy establishing the subfield of humanistic geography and writing some of the most frequently cited works in the discipline of geography, Tuan’s ideas paved the way for disciplinary shifts of the past several decades, including concerns with ethics, affect, writing, imaginaries, embodiment, and animal geographies. To…
Latino Intergenerational Communication and Attitudes Regarding Climate Change
Heightened environmental concerns of Latinx communities have been identified by various surveys, contradicting a common misconception that marginalized communities are disinterested in environmental issues. Using the state of Texas as a case study, Mexican-American climate perceptions are analyzed through semi-structured interviews with twenty individuals in Spanish and English. The themes of generation, acculturation, familism, and household fin…
The coming of the post-digital workplace? A survey of how white-collar workers experience and cope with digital media reliance
The coming of the post-digital workplace? A survey of how white-collar workers experience and cope with digital media reliance. New media technology can both hamper and amplify workers' agency. Much research shows that the ambiguities of digital reliance are accentuated among office workers, especially knowledge workers, who spend most of their working time handling different types of information and data. Thus, in times of constant connectivity,…
Explicit and Implicit Attitudes of the American Public Towards the Chinese People in the Aftermath of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Multiscalar homing digital media use by Ukrainian refugees
The role of place in everyday life of Ukrainian war refugees in Poland
The article addresses the issue of Ukrainian war refugees in Poland. The authors aim to reconstruct the role that various places play in the everyday life of refugees in Poland and the differences between recognized places. In this way, the authors try to answer the question about the meaning of place in life as refugee persons during the first weeks and the following months of their stay in host country. The research used a mixed method approach…
The intimate politics of everyday digital practices: Entangling and disentangling
Postdigital Territoriality: Disentangling from Digital Media as a Return to Place
People adopt geographical strategies to distance themselves from digital sociality. Rather than merely turning off devices, they engage in a broader, more durable project of disentangling. This effort responds to the homogenizing, standardizing forces of connective media and their coercive entanglements: socially normalized routines of personal media use, hybridizations of human agency with communication technologies, and digitally mediated activ…
“Not a Big Climate Change Guy” Semiotic Gradients and Climate Discourse
This study explores the comparative grounds people employ to understand weather and climate, recognizing weather change while distancing themselves from climate change. It draws on interviews with farmers and ranchers in the Texas panhandle and West Texas, confirming previous research that rejects the idea of a knowledge gap or information deficit leading to misunderstanding of climate change. The semiotic method extends findings of media frame a…
Monuments to Lenin in the post-Soviet cultural landscape
Landscape semiotics can be explored by focusing on Vladimir Lenin, whose likeness once graced more than 14,000 toponyms, museums, statues and monuments. During the Soviet period, Lenin monuments reflected a symbolic language linking communist power and ideology to particular sculptural characteristics. After 1991, the significance of Lenin statues took multiple paths of evolution in what Lotman would call “explosion.” Depending on the geographica…
Place dialogue
This paper argues for attention to place dialogue, rethinking how place meanings emerge through interactions between human agency and the nonhuman agency of place. To speak is to act, so what is in play here is acknowledging place not only as a ‘speaker’ and a ‘listener’ but also as an agent. In addition to developing posthumanist geographies, the article proposes a new direction for geographical studies of communication, building on the semiotic…
Disentangling: The Geographies of Digital Disconnection
Routledge Handbook of Media Geographies
Shifting moods on Sina Weibo: The first 12 weeks of Covid-19 in Wuhan
Better understanding of social media uses in crisis situations can help improve disaster management by policy-makers, organizations, businesses, and members of the public. It can also build theoretical understanding of how social life and citizenship incorporate social media usage. This study tracks the evolution of public sentiment in Wuhan, China, during the first 12 weeks after the identification of COVID-19 on the Chinese microblogging platfo…
Disentangling: The Geographies of Digital Disconnection
Language and Groundwater: Symbolic Gradients of the Anthropocene
This article argues that geographers must study the power of words as integral parts of human–environment relationships, with particular attention to local meanings, to intervene more effectively in the Anthropocene. Words are important tools by which people come to understand environmental changes and develop plans to facilitate mitigation and adaptation or, alternatively, to postpone these responses. This project considers the portion of Texas …
Geographies of media
Geographers understand media as heterogeneous systems including material infrastructures, symbolic systems, and social processes. Media geographies are generally considered in relation to one or more of the following questions: how media and their uses are incorporated into particular places through place‐making processes (media‐in‐places), how geographical images and ideas are conveyed through mediated discourses (places‐in‐media), how communica…
Agreeing to Surveillance: Digital News Privacy Policies
The shift toward digital distribution has led newspapers to adopt data collection and sharing practices with unexplored ethical consequences. Analysis of the privacy policies of the 15 largest U.S. newspapers reveals what is permitted with regard to the capture of newsreader data and the sharing of such data with advertisers, affiliated companies, and social media. These practices and the related news metrics and analytics are critiqued in light …
Women's risk and well-being at the intersection of dowry, patriarchy, and conservation: The gendering of human-wildlife conflict
Drawing on work in feminist political ecologies and employing a grounded theory approach, this article examines the socio-spatial links between the patriarchal tradition of dowry, tigers, and women's well-being. It shows how a landscape governed for conservation purposes can produce embodied and material harm for women living under a patriarchal system. Focus groups conducted in eastern Rajasthan, India, reveal how human-tiger interaction, even i…
Public Privates: Feminist Geographies of Mediated Spaces
Marcia R. England. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. xxi and 189 pp., bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-4962-0580-3), $30.00 paper (ISBN 978-1-4962-0672-5), $30.00 electr
Geographies of media and communication III: Academic communications and the digital communication environment
This third report on geographies of media and communication explores the risks associated with scholarly communications in the digital communication environment. It offers a critical interpretation of changes affecting publishing, teaching and professional development. Each of these facets of academic communications is changing in ways that produce and exacerbate risks. While acknowledging that the digital communication environment also presents …
Place
Place is a key concept in geography despite varying interpretations of its meaning and constant struggles to define the term. To a geographer, place implies a particular mixture or synthesis of heterogeneous processes coming together in a location, and doing so in contingent and shifting ways while also forming connections to other places. Place is also a distinct framing of human experience. Its complexity and inherent subjectivity make place qu…
Migration Maps with the News: Guidelines for ethical visualization of mobile populations
Maps showing immigration into Europe are a potential source of journalistic bias. Limited time and funding to create maps of migration can lead to dependence on data from institutions dedicated to controlling migration, in effect promoting a logic of surveillance directed at immigrants rather than a logic of hospitality based on respect for human rights. There are organizational and logistical barriers to overcome if migration is to be portrayed …
Geographies of media and communication II: Arcs of communication
Some of the most perceptive contributions to the geographic study of media and communication have been in areas of landscapes studies and geohumanities. To bring landscape and geohumanities insights together more explicitly with communication and media, this progress report draws on George Revill’s concept of an ‘arc of sound’, expanding the concept’s scope to an arc of communication – a dynamic trajectory connecting one vantage point to another …
Textures Of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies
India.com: The construction of a space between
The study of information and communication technologies (ICT) by geographers has evolved over the past third of a century from a concentration on friction of distance and spatial organization toward a set of four interrelated social approaches: ICT as a set of contested terrains, ICT as a means of perception, ICT as a form of embodiment, and ICT as virtual places or spaces (distanciated social contexts). These approaches are complementary rather …
Television as Gathering Place
An examination of television as a center of meaning and as a social context supports the concept of a place without a location. Similar ideas have appeared in media theory since the 1960s, but have not been the subject of geographic research. Comparison of television with other media, including books, radio, and film, reveals that it is uniquely place-like. Television functions as a social context, providing sensory communion and social congregat…
Communication Geography: A Bridge Between Disciplines
We call for a fundamental restruc turing of research paradigms in geography and media/communication studies to form a bridge between core concerns of the 2 disciplines. This endeavor responds to contemporary historical changes: mediated/mediatized mobility, technological convergence, interactivity, new communication interfaces, and the automation of surveillance. Long-standing concern with a set of issues we call representations, textures, struct…
The interface envelope: Gaming, Technology, Power
The Interface Envelope is an exploration of interfaces – the structured contexts that allow people to interact with digital technologies. An interface is best understood as an environment made up o
Geographies of media and communication I: Metaphysics of encounter
Media and communication are attracting increasing amounts of attention from geographers but the work remains disorganized and lacks a unifying paradigm. This progress report suggests a new paradigm for geographical studies of media and communication and indicates how recent research fits under this umbrella. The report presents recent studies of literature, film and television, digital media, photography, comics, stamps and banknotes. The range o…
Protest and the scale politics of telecommunications
A taxonomy for communication geography
We transmit images of space and place through communication, so space and place are part of the ‘content’ of media. In addition, every communication follows a path from sender(s) to receiver(s) along a particular spatial route between particular places. These observations indicate opposing forms of containment: spaces and places contain communications yet are also contained by communications. We can accept these complementary views as keys to the…
Placing the Anthropocene: A Day in the Life of an Enviro‐organism
A turning point in human–environment relations has been signalled by the term Anthropocene. Academic responses to the Anthropocene must acknowledge the unprecedented role of humankind on the planet while avoiding models that dismiss or minimise the agency of non‐human actors. They must pay attention to hybridity, materiality, actor‐networks and nonrepresentational geographies, and at the same time, they must appreciate posthumanist blurring of on…
A Reconsideration of Personal Boundaries in Space-Time
An appropriate image of the person for geographers is an entity with fluctuating boundaries that reach through space and time in constantly changing patterns. Such extensions through space and time are not merely “internal” or psychological states of being in the world; they are integral to economic, political, and cultural processes. Human extensibility is fundamental to the ongoing processes of social structuration in which social practices are…
The Ashgate research companion to media geography
© Paul C. Adams, Jim Craine and Jason Dittmer and the contributors 2014. All rights reserved. This Companion provides an authoritative source for scholars and students of the nascent field of media geography. While it has deep roots in the wider discipline, the consolidation of media geography has started only in the past decade, with the creation of media geography's first dedicated journal, Aether, as well as the publication of the sub-discipli…
Introduction: Cyberspace and Geographical Space
Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications
PLACE ATTACHMENT: Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications. Edited By Lynne C. Manzo and Patrick Devine-Wright, xii and 217 pp.: diagrs., ills., bibliogs., index. London and New York: Routledge, 2014. $44.95 (paper), ISBN 9780415538213. Geographers borrow extensively from other disciplines and other disciplines borrow on occasion from geography, but this exchange does not mean that geography's cognate disciplines necessarily ask similar quest…
Network Topologies and Virtual Place
The use of terms such as “cyberspace,”“electronic frontier,” and “information superhighway” implies a project for geographers: the attempt to incorporate such innovative views of place within an ontological framework sensitive to geographical concerns. Combinatorial theory and structuration theory provide a basis for this incorporation. Just as places are dialectically related to social processes, so too are communication media. Similar factors r…
Bringing Globalization Home: A Homeworker in the Information Age
Studies of social processes at the aggregate level reduce worker identity to an abstraction defined by social structures. This paper considers the daily routine of one worker to clarify the construction of identity. A homeworker is chosen because the contrast between her structurally defined identity and her personally defined identity is particularly salient. Her relation to distant situations—via television, radio, computer networking, telephon…
Women's risk and well-being at the intersection of dowry, patriarchy, and conservation: The gendering of human-wildlife conflict
Drawing on work in feminist political ecologies and employing a grounded theory approach, this article examines the socio-spatial links between the patriarchal tradition of dowry, tigers, and women's well-being. It shows how a landscape governed for conservation purposes can produce embodied and material harm for women living under a patriarchal system. Focus groups conducted in eastern Rajasthan, India, reveal how human-tiger interaction, even i…
Migration Maps with the News: Guidelines for ethical visualization of mobile populations
Maps showing immigration into Europe are a potential source of journalistic bias. Limited time and funding to create maps of migration can lead to dependence on data from institutions dedicated to controlling migration, in effect promoting a logic of surveillance directed at immigrants rather than a logic of hospitality based on respect for human rights. There are organizational and logistical barriers to overcome if migration is to be portrayed …
Geographies of media and communication II: Arcs of communication
Some of the most perceptive contributions to the geographic study of media and communication have been in areas of landscapes studies and geohumanities. To bring landscape and geohumanities insights together more explicitly with communication and media, this progress report draws on George Revill’s concept of an ‘arc of sound’, expanding the concept’s scope to an arc of communication – a dynamic trajectory connecting one vantage point to another …
Monuments to Lenin in the post-Soviet cultural landscape
Landscape semiotics can be explored by focusing on Vladimir Lenin, whose likeness once graced more than 14,000 toponyms, museums, statues and monuments. During the Soviet period, Lenin monuments reflected a symbolic language linking communist power and ideology to particular sculptural characteristics. After 1991, the significance of Lenin statues took multiple paths of evolution in what Lotman would call “explosion.” Depending on the geographica…
Place dialogue
This paper argues for attention to place dialogue, rethinking how place meanings emerge through interactions between human agency and the nonhuman agency of place. To speak is to act, so what is in play here is acknowledging place not only as a ‘speaker’ and a ‘listener’ but also as an agent. In addition to developing posthumanist geographies, the article proposes a new direction for geographical studies of communication, building on the semiotic…
Multilayered regionalization in Northern Europe
The gendering of Asian Indian transnationalism on the Internet
Online activities offer immigrants an important way to maintain and recreate transnational linkages across space and time. Even though one enters cyberspace as a disembodied participant, fundamental aspects of bodily difference – gender, age, and race – shape the online activity that occurs on the Internet. Results from an Internet survey of Asian Indian Internet users in the United States provide evidence of the gendering and age-based divisions…
Introduction to ‘Technological Change’: A Special Issue of Ethics, Place & Environment
In 1894 the anthropologist Otis Tufton Mason called for research in an area he dubbed ‘technogeography’, and he lauded the potential benefits of the knowledge to be acquired under this heading: The
Age at which pensions are awarded under social security: Patterns in ten industrial countries, 1960–1986 1
Explicit and Implicit Attitudes of the American Public Towards the Chinese People in the Aftermath of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Age at which pensions are awarded under social security: Patterns in ten industrial countries, 1960–1986 1
Children and the transition to the market economy: Safety nets and social policies in central and eastern Europe
Television as Gathering Place
An examination of television as a center of meaning and as a social context supports the concept of a place without a location. Similar ideas have appeared in media theory since the 1960s, but have not been the subject of geographic research. Comparison of television with other media, including books, radio, and film, reveals that it is uniquely place-like. Television functions as a social context, providing sensory communion and social congregat…
A Reconsideration of Personal Boundaries in Space-Time
An appropriate image of the person for geographers is an entity with fluctuating boundaries that reach through space and time in constantly changing patterns. Such extensions through space and time are not merely “internal” or psychological states of being in the world; they are integral to economic, political, and cultural processes. Human extensibility is fundamental to the ongoing processes of social structuration in which social practices are…
Protest and the scale politics of telecommunications
Cyberspace and Virtual Places
SimCity
Network Topologies and Virtual Place
The use of terms such as “cyberspace,”“electronic frontier,” and “information superhighway” implies a project for geographers: the attempt to incorporate such innovative views of place within an ontological framework sensitive to geographical concerns. Combinatorial theory and structuration theory provide a basis for this incorporation. Just as places are dialectically related to social processes, so too are communication media. Similar factors r…
Bringing Globalization Home: A Homeworker in the Information Age
Studies of social processes at the aggregate level reduce worker identity to an abstraction defined by social structures. This paper considers the daily routine of one worker to clarify the construction of identity. A homeworker is chosen because the contrast between her structurally defined identity and her personally defined identity is particularly salient. Her relation to distant situations—via television, radio, computer networking, telephon…
The Promise of the City: Space, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought
India.com: The construction of a space between
The study of information and communication technologies (ICT) by geographers has evolved over the past third of a century from a concentration on friction of distance and spatial organization toward a set of four interrelated social approaches: ICT as a set of contested terrains, ICT as a means of perception, ICT as a form of embodiment, and ICT as virtual places or spaces (distanciated social contexts). These approaches are complementary rather …
The September 11 attacks as viewed from Quebec: The Small-Nation Code in Geopolitical Discourse
Introduction to ‘Technological Change’: A Special Issue of Ethics, Place & Environment
In 1894 the anthropologist Otis Tufton Mason called for research in an area he dubbed ‘technogeography’, and he lauded the potential benefits of the knowledge to be acquired under this heading: The
The gendering of Asian Indian transnationalism on the Internet
Online activities offer immigrants an important way to maintain and recreate transnational linkages across space and time. Even though one enters cyberspace as a disembodied participant, fundamental aspects of bodily difference – gender, age, and race – shape the online activity that occurs on the Internet. Results from an Internet survey of Asian Indian Internet users in the United States provide evidence of the gendering and age-based divisions…
Creating and inhabiting virtual places: Indian immigrants in cyberspace
The Internet is often appropriated by groups seeking to preserve, develop and celebrate their identities across space. Using an online survey of a group of immigrants to the United States from India as well as their American-born children, this article reveals that the Internet is utilised for overcoming separation at intra- and international scales, for creating a variety of transboundary networks and for constructing a sense of identity in virt…
Place In Context: Rethinking Humanist Geographies
The appeal of icewine is attributable to its distinct aroma characteristics, such as 'honey', 'caramel', and 'dried fruit', but little is known about the chemical basis of these aroma attributes. A set of icewines with different aroma intensities were selected by a panel of wine experts. Detailed volatile compound analyses and sensory descriptive analyses were performed on the selected icewines. Using partial least-squares regression, several lac…
Peripatetic Imagery And Peripatetic Sense Of Plac
Textures Of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies
A taxonomy for communication geography
We transmit images of space and place through communication, so space and place are part of the ‘content’ of media. In addition, every communication follows a path from sender(s) to receiver(s) along a particular spatial route between particular places. These observations indicate opposing forms of containment: spaces and places contain communications yet are also contained by communications. We can accept these complementary views as keys to the…
Introduction: Cyberspace and Geographical Space
Multilayered regionalization in Northern Europe
Communication Geography: A Bridge Between Disciplines
We call for a fundamental restruc turing of research paradigms in geography and media/communication studies to form a bridge between core concerns of the 2 disciplines. This endeavor responds to contemporary historical changes: mediated/mediatized mobility, technological convergence, interactivity, new communication interfaces, and the automation of surveillance. Long-standing concern with a set of issues we call representations, textures, struct…
Effect of Ambiguous Hemochromatosis Gene Test Results on Physician Utilization
BACKGROUND: Genetic test results may be available to greater numbers of people through genetic screening projects and other means. The effects of widespread genetic testing and notification of genetic test results, particularly added costs through increased physician utilization, have not been clearly established. METHODS: A primary care-based cohort of 20,306 participants (Hemochromatosis and Iron Overload Study, Ontario site) were tested for th…
Trajectories of the Nobel Peace Prize
Trajectories are defined as constructs used in geopolitical discourses at all levels – formal, practical and popular. Each trajectory consists of a particular scaling of here, a particular scaling of there, and a particular causal hypothesis about how the two are linked. Norwegian discourses about the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize provide examples of trajectories. These discourses reveal certain assumptions about the motives and outcomes framed in terms…
Environmental Messages in Online Media: The Role of Place
Online environmental messages are examined through the use of focus groups. These messages are derived from short online videos and an interactive Internet tool called the “ecological footprint calculator.” Subject responses are compared and contrasted across two axes of differentiation: Americans versus Norwegians, and journalism students versus petroleum engineering students. Responses of focus groups drawn from these four stakeholder types sho…
Sociology (42 works) · Political science (30 works) · Computer Science (27 works) · Geography (23 works) · Law (18 works) · Politics (16 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Social science (14 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (13 works) · Philosophy (12 works)