Community Media: People, Places, and Communication Technologies

The media equation - how people treat computers, television, and new media like real people and places

Connecting People through Content – Promoting Community Identity Cognition through People and Places

Large public screens are proliferating in public spaces. Today, most of them are standalone installations that display advertisements in the form of slides, short movies, or still images. However, it is not hard to imagine that these displays will soon be connected through the Internet, thus creating a global and powerful communication medium capable of providing rich, interactive applications....

Places as Media of Containment

While computational approaches to place and location, such as gazetteers, use simplistic data models (Janowicz and Keßler 2008), the important notion of place encompasses a large variety of meanings, ranging from spatially referenced locations, e.g., the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, through objects such as vessels, to pointlike experiential spaces (Couclelis 1992), and social handles such as...

Communication and marketing as tools to cultivate the public's health: a proposed "people and places" framework

BACKGROUND Communication and marketing are rapidly becoming recognized as core functions, or core competencies, in the field of public health. Although these disciplines have fostered considerable academic inquiry, a coherent sense of precisely how these disciplines can inform the practice of public health has been slower to emerge. DISCUSSION In this article we propose a framework--based on ...

Invited commentary: places, people, and health.

A growing body of research in epidemiology and public health has examined how characteristics of the places where people live are related to a variety of health outcomes, including health-related behaviors (1–4), prevalence and incidence of disease (5–7), and mortality (3, 8–13). The paper by Balfour and Kaplan (14) in this issue of the Journal examines how neighborhood characteristics are rela...