Paul C. Adams
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Paul C. Adams is an Associate Professor and Director of Urban Studies at the Department of Geography and the Environment at University of Texas at Austin
. Adams applies various geographical lenses to communication, addressing communication infrastructure, communication as a social process, and communication as an element of individual experience.
in Boulder, Colorado
. He received his M.S. in Geography in 1990 and his Ph.D. in Geography in 1993, both from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin
. Adams specializes in geography of communication technologies, nationalism
, critical geopolitics
, and representations of space and place. Before arriving at the University of Texas at Austin, Adams had held academic positions at Virginia Tech
, the State University of New York at Albany, and Texas A&M University
.
Department of Geography and the Environment at University of Texas at Austin
The Department of Geography and The Environment at The University of Texas at Austin is a division unit of the College of Liberal Arts. The Department was founded in 1949 and is a research focused institution with a well-developed graduate program...
. Adams applies various geographical lenses to communication, addressing communication infrastructure, communication as a social process, and communication as an element of individual experience.
Background
In 1984, Adams received his Bachelor of Environmental Design (with Special Honors) from the University of Colorado at BoulderUniversity of Colorado at Boulder
The University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado...
in Boulder, Colorado
Boulder, Colorado
Boulder is the county seat and most populous city of Boulder County and the 11th most populous city in the U.S. state of Colorado. Boulder is located at the base of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of...
. He received his M.S. in Geography in 1990 and his Ph.D. in Geography in 1993, both from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin
Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison....
. Adams specializes in geography of communication technologies, nationalism
Nationalism
Nationalism is a political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms, i.e. a nation. In the 'modernist' image of the nation, it is nationalism that creates national identity. There are various definitions for what...
, critical geopolitics
Critical geopolitics
The basic concept behind Geopolitics is that intellectuals of statecraft construct ideas about places, these ideas have influence and reinforce their political behaviors and policy choices, and these ideas affect how we, the people, process our own notions of places and politics.Critical...
, and representations of space and place. Before arriving at the University of Texas at Austin, Adams had held academic positions at Virginia Tech
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, popularly known as Virginia Tech , is a public land-grant university with the main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia with other research and educational centers throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and internationally.Founded in...
, the State University of New York at Albany, and Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...
.
Selected publications
- Adams, Paul C., 2009, Geographies of Media and Communication: A Critical Introduction , London: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Adams, Paul C., 2007, Atlantic Reverberations: French Representations of an American Election , Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press.
- Adams, Paul C., 2005, The Boundless Self: Communication in Physical and Virtual Spaces , Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press.
- Adams, Paul C., 2004, The September 11 Attacks as Viewed from Quebec: The Small-Nation Myth in Geopolitical Discourse. Political Geography 23 (6): 765-795.
- Adams, Paul C., Steven Hoelscher, and Karen Till, eds., 2001, Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
- Adams, Paul C., 1998, Network Topologies and Virtual Place Annals of the Association of American Geographers 88(1):88-106.
- Adams, Paul C., 1996, Protest and the Scale Politics of Telecommunications Political Geography 15(5):419-441.
- Adams, Paul C., 1995, A Reconsideration of Personal BoundariesPersonal boundariesPersonal boundaries are guidelines, rules or limits that a person creates to identify for him- or herself what are reasonable, safe and permissible ways for other people to behave around him or her and how he or she will respond when someone steps outside those limits.'Personal boundaries define...
in Space-Time Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85(2):267-285.
- Adams, Paul C., 1992, Television as Gathering Place Annals of the Association of American Geographers 82(1):117-135.
External links
- Home Page https://webspace.utexas.edu/adamspc3/mainpage/
- University of Texas Profile Page http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/geography/faculty/adamspc3
- Communication Geography Specialty Group of the AAG http://www.communication-geography.org/
- Aether (the Journal of Media Geography)http://geogdata.csun.edu/~aether/