Geography of Life

As geographer we can define media as extensions from our body to see and impact far away places. The internet as network of continents, peoples and ideas changed our communication forever. As we reach out into the world, other people from around the globe are influencing us at the same time. Geographical thought about the media are social maps of our globalized and digital lifes!

[bocher-daniel]

Ich finde es interessant das in Planetarien eine Art parallele Kinotechnik entstanden ist. Mit einem Monstrum wie dem Starmaster 💫 im Planetarium Freiburg. Dazu kommt Zitat: „das Ganzkuppel-Videosystem der Firma SkySkan mit seinen beiden Hochleistungsvideoprojektoren, die von zehn leistungsfähigen Computern gefüttert werden. Dank der auf neuesten Forschungsergebnissen beruhenden Datenbank entführen wir Sie mit gewaltigen, bewegten Bildern an jeden bekannten Ort des Kosmos. Mit dieser Technik gehört das Freiburger Planetarien zu den modernsten der Welt.“ Krass oder? Warum ist immer noch IMAX und 3D der neuste heiße scheiß im Kino-Business? #planetarium #kinotechnik #kino (at Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpF0EMrsWz2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Me and my dashboard 🧡 Since a few years we are friends now! Nowadays we do everything together. It waits for me when I come to work and it is their for me and my colleagues when we need it. We did not know each other in highschool but I feel that we would have been on the school yard together showing the other kids hottest trends from America 😎🤓 This dashboard looks like a walk in the park but its actually quite difficult to set up: using a raspberry pi as base hardware, Crowd Tangle Live-Displays for the dashboard and different Linux-Packages for the automation and autostart functions. Now the 3. prototype is finished and almost ready to be called a real product, do you want something like this? #dashboard #dataanalyst @zdf.digital #zdfdigital #teamanalytics (at Mainz, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnlpjL4MybZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The image of Dubrovnik has always been that of a historical city. The history of filming this history is also long and dates back to 1919. Since then, the image of this adriatic destination can be stably described as historical and cultural - confirmed by its inscription on the World Heritage List in 1979 (For more information on the World Heritage Site: https://buff.ly/3tO7YjZ). Movies and series are additional marketing tools to preserve the image: "[...] Movie productions (like Game of Thrones) are an added value to our promotion". So the image hasn't changed for years and even a historical fantasy series like GAME OF THRONE contributes to this image. It gets interesting when you add movies like the new JAMES BOND, STAR WARS - THE LAST JEDI or MAMMA MIA 2, because they are set in the present time or in a futuristic galaxy far, far away. But GAME OF THRONES fits well into the image of Dubrovnik and what the others may bring to the city will be decided in the cinemas of the world. 🎞️📽️🕍🏰🌅 #dubrovnik #got #jamesbond #starwars #mammamia 1st pic: Photo by Priyanka Sethy on Unsplash 2st pic: Photo by David Edkins on Unsplash 3st pic: Photo by Tadeja Pavšič on Unsplash (at Dubrovnik, Croatia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmWz4mVMMD-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bocher-daniel]

I worked for my phd in the bib for the first time since covid hit th planet! Nice to be back 😃 I love the acadameic library at our #CamusMainz for its perfect working environment. I am always the most concentrated in the library 🤓 #bergdoktorarbeit @uni_mainz #humangeography @geo_unimainz (at Georg Forster-Gebäude) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl9Ma1gMoZK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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"Yet the power to invoke a sense of 'being there' was also culturally constructed, animated by the faith in the medium's superior realism. 📸Photography seems to be a means of transcribing reality. Photographs appear to be not statements about the world but pieces of it, even miniature slices of reality, without revealing its constructed nature or its ideological content. It seems that the camera does not lie. The realism of photographs made such travelling real and seductive. Visiting places through photographs was sometimes more or less as good as embodied gazing." 💻Citation from John Urrys book "The tourist gaze 3.0" #bergdoktorarbeit #touristgaze #photography #humangeography (at Hamburg Speicherstadt + Hafencity) https://www.instagram.com/p/CloPv-rMWmh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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"Many photographs portray joyful moments and familial togetherness with traces of unhappiness or friction being absent. People are keen to photograph, for it is in the space of the photograph that they enjoy longed-for family happiness. People gaze at the holiday image- and the imaginary family or friendship of their holiday gazes back. The perfect social relationship and the perfect holiday may be a figment of the public imagination, but it stands for something that ought to exist. Tourist photography is not characterised by the suspension of norms but, like the everyday, is culturally informed by particular notions about what constitutes a loving social life." Quote from John Urry and his book "The tourist gaze 3.0" #bergdoktorarbeit #touristgaze #tourist #humangeography @unimainz & @geounimainz (at Tourist Club Area) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkX1B2WsCRu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Be part of something big! (I continue in german because the podcast ist in deutsch ✌️) Wir reden über eine Bachelorarbeit in der Neurobiologie und finden heraus das sie vielleicht die Grundlage legt für die Bekämpfung von Krankheiten. Wow 😳 Da kann ich nur ehrfürchtig sein und hoffen das meine Doktorarbeit mal diesen Impact haben könnte (I seriously doubt it... es ist nunmal der Bergdoktor) 🤷‍♂️ Also hört euch den Podcast an auf Spotify oder sucht einfach in eurem Podcatcher nach #vorlesungspodcast 🎧#neurobiologie #podcast (at Campus Mainz) https://www.instagram.com/p/CimXamFsAb8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bocher-daniel]

Ich bin ein richtiger Troll 🧌 Meinen #Bergdoktor-Pullover (Geburtstagsgeschenk!) habe ich mal eben ganz frech mit nach Schweden genommen. Wir sind dann irgendwo an einen See gefahren und haben ein Fotoshooting gemacht. Habe mich überhaupt nicht deplatziert gefühlt aber vom Modeln her gehts oder? #schweden #bergdoktorarbeit #natur (at Schweden) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiPxp3csufg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bocher-daniel]

Für manche ist es ein lebenslang andauernder Traum: ein Buch schreiben 📖 Eine gute Freundin von mir hat sich diesen Traum nun teilweise erfüllt. Sie ist Mitautorin eines Artikels in einem Buch mit dem nicht sehr euphorischen Titel „Dinge im Film“ 😁😆 Herzlichen Glückwunsch. Ich kann das Buch nur empfehlen wenn ihr schon immer mal mehr wissen wolltet über die Dinge in einem Film 🎞👌 Ihr könnt nicht ahnen was man alles zu Fenstern in Filmen schreiben und erfahren kann. #phdlife #phdchat #filmwissenschaft (at Frankfurt, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch9Mc7FMNlc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bocher-daniel]

My most wonderful and memorable work experience was on board the MS Wissenschaft in 2018. The MS Wissenschaft is a converted cargo river boat into a mobile exhibition with different scientific themes. I was a guide for an exhibition for the “Future of work”. It was a great experience in an extremely memorable workplace. I learned a lot about my self, travelled on a few rivers through Germany and met some wonderful crew people along the way. 🚢 Always again, never forget. @mswissenschaft #mswissenschaft #lotsenlife (at Elbe River) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChR9OlMM7At/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The ski trip to the Wilder Kaiser was great but how long will it last: the snow ❄️ , the fun 🤩 , the memory 🎞? With all the texts I read and after all the understanding I compiled with my studies I really started to have a differentiated view of traveling and tourism. I always knew that (mass) tourism is bad for the environment and I stoped flying after my trip to croatia for my master thesis. Under the umbrella term ‘over tourism’ a lot of these negative phenomena are already described and researched. But actually there is a lot more! Traveling is living your dream at least 2 weeks every summer but I started to disbelieve this promise. A promise provided by the industry but also from ourselfs as tourists when we post edited photos in social media. #humangeography #valentingroebner #bergdoktorarbeit (at SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser - Brixental) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgWxzLXMVGX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bocher-daniel]

🏙️🏢🤠🌞 In his book "Access all Areas: A User’s Guide to the Art of Urban Exploration" Chapman defines urban exploration (UE) as “an interior tourism that allows the curious minded to discover a world of behind the scenes sights” (Ninjalicious, 2005, p. 3). The sites and sights of urban exploration are thus located beyond the radar of commercial tourism. In addition to abandoned places (e.g., industries, hospitals, residential buildings and sites of leisure and tourism), urban explorers are searching out places that are hidden or difficult to access (e.g., urban rooftops, subterranean spaces and military complexes). 🔎 There are today hundreds of UE communities and groups around the world that converse and circulate photos online via websites and various forms of social media. #Bergdoktorarbeit #humangeography @geounimainz 📔 Source: Jansson, André (2018): Rethinking post-tourism in the age of social media. In: Annals of Tourism Research 69, S. 101–110. DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2018.01.005 . (at Spiegel) https://www.instagram.com/p/CftxzC9M1TO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bocher-daniel]

Natur is not explaining itself to disconnected travelers 🧳 from exotic places (or from big metropolis’s without any real nature experience in the vicinity). Travellers today and especial kids need to be entertained and to be incited to enjoy something. A lot of people find it hard to find something amusing on their own in mountain bioms 🏔 A hike has to be entertaining to be satisfying. The destination management is preparing assessable and marked places of entertainment and play and the hope is that tourists use these save areas and are not intrigued to seek their entertainment in more dangerous places that are still found plenty around in mountainous areas like the @wilder_kaiser. With mellow staging, these spaces can be made recognizable and become a must-see in the destination. #bergdoktorarbeit #humangeography #wilderkaiser #tourism #unimainz (at Wilder Kaiser "Bergdoktor") https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfi8NjSMtqr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bocher-daniel]

I was in the last week at the university of Freiburg and wrote my phd in the local uni bib 💻 📚 I am always very productive when I work at the bib where everyone seems to work and you have to be quite. I really like the paradoxic atmosphere of silence by being surrounded by busy people 🥰😄 #unifreiburg #bergdoktorarbeit #humangeography (at Freiburg, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfO0Hy-sHBW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bocher-daniel]

I was back at work for 1 day and I really need to learn how to do this again! 😱 Me and my Toast-T-Shirt were definitely not dressed as expected but I found a little booklet that helps me with my workers rights 😅 So I had a rough start but its feels good to see at least some colleagues and to be back in the office 👍👍👍 #work @ZDF_digital #dataanalytics #audiencedevelopment (at Mainz, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcUxd6Mse5t/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Baudrillard about simulations of god: 💭 "Their rage to destroy images rose precisely because they sensed this omnipotence of simulacra, this facility they have of erasing God from the conciousneses of people and the overwhelming, destructive truth which they suggest: that ultimately there has never been any God; that only simulacra exist; indeed that God himself has only ever been his own simulacrum. Had they been able to believe that images only occulted or masked the Platonic idea of God, there would have been no reason to destroy them." 👼 #simulation #matrix #baudrillard #tourism #simulation #humangeography (at Going am Wilden Kaiser) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca9plNCMjkF/?utm_medium=tumblr

[bocher-daniel]

The benefits of traveling can be sometimes just an affirmation to yourself that your home is beautiful. 👌 When you are away at the destination and you are looking forward to going home in to your familiar hood, than everything is just fine! Consider yourself lucky that your homescape and your everyday life is apparently fulfilling. ⠀ 🌎🏡 ⠀ Traveling, holidays and the tourist lifestyle with its references to paradise and an adventurous life is nothing more than a social construct. Holidays do not have to be the best days of the year, but rather your everyday should not be the worst days! 😊 #humangeography @unimainz #campusmainz #phdlife (at Bodensee) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaXgzkyM_zN/?utm_medium=tumblr