Distant places and television news: A phenomenology of viewers' understandings

Empirical studies of place perceptions have until now been limited. Projects have focussed on places which are immediately present to the perceiver, such as urban landscapes, and have used methods such as sketch maps or distance estimates. These projects place unnecessary limits on the study of geographic experience, especially the understanding of distant place. The social and political nature of foreign country images should not discourage geographers from including distant place perception within the discipline's scope. Furthermore, the difficulty of doing empirical work on this topic should not intimidate geographers into using only maps or distance estimates to assure that the work appears geographic.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Geography

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Davis, Edward Hamilton

Contributors dc:contributor

• O'Loughlin, John

• Geography
• Mass Communications

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1989 Davis, Edward Hamilton

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI8916237
(UMI)AAI8916237

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/18989