Aloha!

My name is Katina, I'm from Chile. I did my thesis for my Master Degree in Communications (but it was 10 years ago), nevertheless I think the conclusions still current. My topic the media and the cultural identity, their relationship include. Thats has an very close relation with the time and space (location). I proved that the cultural identity can be influenced by the media (in this time, the most important was TV, now maybe also, but I'm not sure). And the way is how you show who doing what(and ho often). If you do that, you can make an strong accent in some activities/people in your location . I don't know if it help you. My thesis has all the sources of course, but it is in spanish. Anyway, if you want to see it, please let me know. By the way,I'm interested in your topi, so, if you found something interesting, and if it is ok with you, I'llbe gald if you share it with me. 

One key distinction is that location in journalism used to be about advertising circulation areas (newspapers) or technical broadcast reach (radio and TV), based on where advertisers could spread their messages (blame the penny press). Spatial journalism isn't about that at all (or shouldn't be); it's about tailoring information to a particular place. So, of course, if there is a gourmet coffee shop nearby, and that shop wants to advertise alongside the stories of the place, then that will likely be a revenue stream for media companies. But, more importantly, I think, spatial journalism could return the focus to the audience of the stories, as people, who want to be engaged with a place, and less about getting product in front of eyeballs. There is no scale to spatial journalism without mechanization. Mechanization is too crude at this point to work. I also think scale – again the penny press – caused a variety of issues with the ideology of journalism that we suffer greatly from, so maybe future journalistic efforts will be more about satisfaction than scale. Maybe that's the core of the business model that the industry has been looking for?

Modern tools of communication have transformed how journalism is conceptualized, previously journalists could not file their stories in an instant as is the case today due to lack of the internet or satellite technology. Spatial journalism is is able to handle location differently through advanced media technologies that enable real time reporting of events through time and space. Areas that were previously  thought of as out of reach by journalists due to structural deficiencies such as lack of broadcast infrastructure are now accessible thanks to new media technologies.