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
 
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.
 

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.