Chris Lukinbeal is the founding Director of Geographic Information Systems Technology Programs at the University of Arizona, USA, and Professor of the School of Geography Development and Environment. He earned his PhD in Geography from San Diego State University and University of California, Santa Barbara. Chris is a cultural geography and cartographer with research interests in representation, visualization, media, and cinema. Stan D. Brunn labels himself as a cosmopolitan Middle Westerner who has graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Ohio State University. He has traveled in more than 110 countries and taught at universities in the U.S., Caribbean, China, South Africa and Europe (>15). His research interests are broad including political, social, economic, communications and has written/edited books on social and political geography, time/space, urban, COVID, mapping, religion, language, stamps and nationalism, and ad hoc geographies.

• The Media Are Our Situation: An Introduction to Geography’s Media Turn (Chris Lukinbeal and Stanley D. Brunn).- Part 1. The Pervasiveness and Dynamic Evolution of Media in Shaping Geographic Understanding.- From Spatial, Geographical to Pan-Geographical: Developmental Trajectories and Research Frameworks of the Chinese Film Geography (Qian Jiang and Chen Sihan).- The Urban–Rural Transformation in Chinese Cinema since 1978 (Wu Yanfang).- Media and Digitalization in Spatially Divergent Islands: Representing Archipelago Nature, Remoteness and Tourism Economy (Tommi Inkinen).- Part 2. Power, Representation, and the Unseen Geographies of Marginalization and Disinformation.- Geographies of Silence and Omission in West Africa: A Case Study of Senegal’s Largest Humanitarian Disaster (Karen S. Barton).- Fake News and Post-Truth Geographies (Barney Warf).- Medial Constructions of Urban Imaginations (Stephan M. Pietsch).- Omaha’s “Magic Geography:” Visualizing Racial Urban Placemaking in the 20th Century (Jeannette Gabriel and Christina E. Dando).- Part 3. The Interplay of Affect, Embodiment, and Lived Experience in Mediated Spaces.- Through the Aperture of the Parochial: Embodied Videography and Everyday (Circum)ambulation (Les Roberts).- Feminist Geography and Media Production for Online Teaching and Learning (Karen Falconer Al-Hindi).- Nomadic Voice: Internet Guerrilla, Affect, and Rhizomatic Knowledge Production in Fanpai Film Criticism Podcast (Lu Wang).- The Pacific Worlds Website: Representing Oceanic Indigenous Geographic Thought Through the Internet (RDK Herman).- Part 4. Film, Spectacle, and Shifting Realities.- The Nature of Spectacle: Arctic Amateur Documentary Film from the 1950s to Present (Daniel Grafton and Stuart C. Aitken).- The Visual Media Worlds of Zoo 2.0: From Caged Animals to Websites of Animal Rights and Welfare (Stanley D. Brunn and Shutian Li).- Fields of Becoming: Bourdieu, Deleuze, and the Concept of Beauty in The Substance (Jim Craine and Aleksandra Craine).- Projecting Places: Cinema’s Crimes Against Geography and the Case of the Vampirization of Italian Locations (Giorgio Avezzù).- Star Wars Location Hunting: Film and Television Tourism as an Extension of Media Experience (Jacob Rowlett).- Database Film and the Terrestrial Imaginary (Floris Paalman and Haitian Ma).- Part 5. The Evolving Human-Technology Partnership in Media Production.- Artificial Intelligence and Media Geography: From the Personal to the Nonhuman (Chris Lukinbeal).- The Uneven Disciplinary Landscape of Academic Outputs from Extended Reality (XR) Labs at American Universities (A.R. Doery).

Chris Lukinbeal is the founding Director of Geographic Information Systems Technology Programs at the University of Arizona, USA, and Professor of the School of Geography Development and Environment. He earned his PhD in Geography from San Diego State University and University of California, Santa Barbara. Chris is a cultural geography and cartographer with research interests in representation, visualization, media, and cinema. Stan D. Brunn labels himself as a cosmopolitan Middle Westerner who has graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Ohio State University. He has traveled in more than 110 countries and taught at universities in the U.S., Caribbean, China, South Africa and Europe (>15). His research interests are broad including political, social, economic, communications and has written/edited books on social and political geography, time/space, urban, COVID, mapping, religion, language, stamps and nationalism, and ad hoc geographies.

• The Media Are Our Situation: An Introduction to Geography’s Media Turn (Chris Lukinbeal and Stanley D. Brunn).- Part 1. The Pervasiveness and Dynamic Evolution of Media in Shaping Geographic Understanding.- From Spatial, Geographical to Pan-Geographical: Developmental Trajectories and Research Frameworks of the Chinese Film Geography (Qian Jiang and Chen Sihan).- The Urban–Rural Transformation in Chinese Cinema since 1978 (Wu Yanfang).- Media and Digitalization in Spatially Divergent Islands: Representing Archipelago Nature, Remoteness and Tourism Economy (Tommi Inkinen).- Part 2. Power, Representation, and the Unseen Geographies of Marginalization and Disinformation.- Geographies of Silence and Omission in West Africa: A Case Study of Senegal’s Largest Humanitarian Disaster (Karen S. Barton).- Fake News and Post-Truth Geographies (Barney Warf).- Medial Constructions of Urban Imaginations (Stephan M. Pietsch).- Omaha’s “Magic Geography:” Visualizing Racial Urban Placemaking in the 20th Century (Jeannette Gabriel and Christina E. Dando).- Part 3. The Interplay of Affect, Embodiment, and Lived Experience in Mediated Spaces.- Through the Aperture of the Parochial: Embodied Videography and Everyday (Circum)ambulation (Les Roberts).- Feminist Geography and Media Production for Online Teaching and Learning (Karen Falconer Al-Hindi).- Nomadic Voice: Internet Guerrilla, Affect, and Rhizomatic Knowledge Production in Fanpai Film Criticism Podcast (Lu Wang).- The Pacific Worlds Website: Representing Oceanic Indigenous Geographic Thought Through the Internet (RDK Herman).- Part 4. Film, Spectacle, and Shifting Realities.- The Nature of Spectacle: Arctic Amateur Documentary Film from the 1950s to Present (Daniel Grafton and Stuart C. Aitken).- The Visual Media Worlds of Zoo 2.0: From Caged Animals to Websites of Animal Rights and Welfare (Stanley D. Brunn and Shutian Li).- Fields of Becoming: Bourdieu, Deleuze, and the Concept of Beauty in The Substance (Jim Craine and Aleksandra Craine).- Projecting Places: Cinema’s Crimes Against Geography and the Case of the Vampirization of Italian Locations (Giorgio Avezzù).- Star Wars Location Hunting: Film and Television Tourism as an Extension of Media Experience (Jacob Rowlett).- Database Film and the Terrestrial Imaginary (Floris Paalman and Haitian Ma).- Part 5. The Evolving Human-Technology Partnership in Media Production.- Artificial Intelligence and Media Geography: From the Personal to the Nonhuman (Chris Lukinbeal).- The Uneven Disciplinary Landscape of Academic Outputs from Extended Reality (XR) Labs at American Universities (A.R. Doery).