by Helen Morgan Parmett

About Helen Morgan Parmett

Helen Morgan Parmett is Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Western Washington University. Her research focuses on media’s role in the production of space, addressing issues of identity, branding, cultural policy, and governance.

Space

Space means “denoting time or duration” and “area or extension” (Oxford English Dictionary). Media are often credited with the annihilation of space in both of these senses through their collapse of time/duration and compression of distance (Harvey 1989). Yet, media also constitute and produce space, symbolically and materially. Media are fundamentally disorienting and orienting—dislodging us, helping us navigate, and producing space simultaneously.