2009 Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV Online Program

Paper Session: 5155 Media Geography XII: Imaginative Spaces is scheduled on Thursday, 3/26/09, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in North Hall N116, Las Vegas Convention Center Sponsorship(s): Communication Geography Specialty Group Cultural Geography Specialty Group Qualitative Research Specialty Group Organizer(s): Giorgio Hadi Curti - San Diego State University Jason Dittmer - University College London Chair(s): Tamara Edyta West - Manchester Metropolitan University Abstract(s):   8:00 AM   Author(s): *Victoria S Downey - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities  Abstract Title: Media and the "Other": Exoticized Representations and the Cultural Construction of Hawai'i 8:20 AM   Author(s): *Leigh Schwartz - University of Texas at Austin  Abstract Title: Exploring the Imagination in Virtual Worlds 8:40 AM   Author(s): *Tamara Edyta West - Manchester Metropolitan University  Abstract Title: Narratives of Place, Identity and Memory - Images of Life in Polish Occupied Displaced Persons Camps 9:00 AM   Author(s): *Marina Viola - Pennsylvania State University  Abstract Title: Walt's Vision of the West: A textual analysis of Disney's California Adventure 9:20 AM   Author(s): *Mariko Yabe - UCLA  Abstract Title: Early Twenty-First Century Reading Cultural Cityscapes (in Destruction) of Tokyo Reflecting on the Popular Maps in the 1940s Los Angeles

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