ABSTRACT
Chapter 1 provides the overview of geography studies in Western contexts over the past several decades. This return to the roots of geographic underpinnings provides a much-needed foundational landscape upon which to build this and other projects that use terms such as “space” and “place” interchangeably or lack a historical context in how geography can be viewed from physical, social, cultural, economic, digital, and media perspectives. These approaches are applied throughout the book to push boundaries of how current work within the field of journalism studies addresses geographic elements.
