The Media and Communication Specialty Group of the AAG strives to enhance geographic research and scholarship on matters relating to media and communication in all forms such as, but not limited to, oral and written language, printing, visual arts, music, radio, film and video, telephony, computer-mediated-communications, and gesture/movement, by: (a) encouraging the exchange of ideas among geographers studying technical, social, economic, political, and/or cultural aspects of communication within online and offline worlds, (b) promoting research in topics related to communication contexts (including media and communications infrastructure and institutions) and content (discourses, texts, and images presented through media and communications), (c) encouraging reflection on the communicational role and social mission of geographers both in and out of the classroom.  In doing so, we support the AAG's mission of advancing professional studies in geography and encouraging the application of geographic research in education, government, and business.