论媒介地理学的发展历程与学科建构

On Development and Discipline Construction of Media Geography

媒介地理学是一门研究人类同媒介、地理的相互关系及其互动规律的学科。媒介地理学关注地理因素对媒介形态的影响以及媒介对地理样本的建构。一方面,不同的地理环境对媒介的形态与个性有着深刻的影响,另一方面,媒介凭借其对地理的命名与叙述,使真实地理的呈现充满了想象与虚构。从媒介地理学的学科渊源来看,它发端于文化地理学,从文化地理学形成的那天开始,媒介地理学也就诞生了。在研究方法上,举凡实证研究、批判研究、质化研究与量化研究等各种研究方法都应该成为媒介地理学常用的研究范式,借鉴地理学的“空间分析”方法,将有助于探讨媒介的“空间再现”和“地理想象”问题,建构起媒介地理学的学科理论。

Media geography is a study on mutual relationship and regulation among human, media and geography. It focuses on geographic factors＇ influencing on media forms and construction of media to geographic samples. For one side, different geographic environment has a deep influence to the status and characteristic of media; for the other side, by naming and describing geography, media has made the appearance of real geography filled with image and fancy. From the subject orientation of media geography, it startes from culture geography. With the beginning of culture geography, media geography is born too. In researching, those methods such as empirical research, critical research, qualitative and quantitative research, should be used as ordinary research model of media geography. At the same time, adopting the analyzing method of “space theory”, it will be helpful to discuss media＇ s “space reappearance” and “geographic imagination”, so as to build the discipline theories on media geography.