dc.contributor.author	Roberts, Jason L.	en
dc.contributor.committeechair	Morrill, Robert W.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Carstensen, Laurence W.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Good, Charles M. Jr.	en
dc.contributor.department	Geography	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-14T20:37:43Z	en
dc.date.adate	2003-06-13	en
dc.date.available	2014-03-14T20:37:43Z	en
dc.date.issued	2003-04-23	en
dc.date.rdate	2004-06-13	en
dc.date.sdate	2003-05-20	en
dc.description.abstract	There can be little dispute that today's society makes extensive use of mass media. Movies, television, and radio are far more prominent today than ten years ago, both locally and globally. We rely on these forms of communication for news and information and entertainment and recreation. New technologies increase our access and our dependence on mass media. In fact, in the U.S. the average person spends 40 percent of their time attending to television at some level (Adams, 1992). Adams then goes on to say that culture and television are clearly involved in reciprocal relations: television affects culture, but culture also affects television (Adams, 1992). It should come as no surprise, therefore, that generational differences in recreation are far more prominent today than they were twenty years ago. Indeed, we are a passive society dependent upon technology and the creativity of others for pleasure. The Internet and television of today have replaced the bicycle and board games of yesterday in terms of babysitting the young for hours on end. Almost all major types of entertainment come from the viewing of some sort of screen or monitor, with children spending vast amounts of time engaging in these passive activities. By the age of sixteen, a contemporary child has probably spent more time watching television than he/she has attending school or doing chores. However, entertainment is only one use for mass media. For example, the term "Information Age" refers to much more than recreation. Large quantities of information can be acquired through these forms of transmission. Unfortunately, false representations are sometimes the goal of those who produce these data media. In addition to the deliberate distortion of truths, those who consume mass media obtain many falsities inadvertently. A perfect example of this is stereotyping. All too often, one's only exposure to certain regions and/or peoples is obtained through television and movies. Instead of becoming familiar with specific facts about cultures, conclusions are drawn based upon viewing and hearing popular culture material. Stereotypes of cultural groups create myths about their respective geographic regions and vice-versa. We are well aware of these myths (for example, the idea that all Southerners are dumb) but what is their link to place perception? How are mental constructs of regions related to cultural stereotypes? How have popular culture and mass media affected stereotypes?	en
dc.description.degree	Master of Science	en
dc.identifier.other	etd-05202003-142711	en
dc.identifier.sourceurl	http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05202003-142711/	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33020	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech	en
dc.relation.haspart	workinprogress.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	table_of_contents.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	title[1].pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	appendix_a5.pdf	en
dc.rights	In Copyright	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.subject	Place Perception	en
dc.subject	Mental Maps	en
dc.subject	Cognitive Maps	en
dc.subject	Stereotypes	en
dc.subject	South	en
dc.subject	Correlation	en
dc.title	Place Perception, Cognitive Maps, and Mass Media: The Interrelationship Between Visual Popular Culture and Regional Mental Mapping	en
dc.type	Thesis	en
thesis.degree.discipline	Geography	en
thesis.degree.grantor	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	en
thesis.degree.level	masters	en
thesis.degree.name	Master of Science	en

Place Perception, Cognitive Maps, and Mass Media: The Interrelationship Between Visual Popular Culture and Regional Mental Mapping

Files

Original bundle

Collections