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Emily Fekete
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Presentations: Economic Geographies of Social Media: Using Foursquare to Assess Individual Consumption Patterns. Graduate Student Symposium on New Media. Lawrence, Kansas. May 2012. Geography and American Sign Language: Rethinking Language and Space. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. New York, New York. February 2012. Video game design, the media and geography. From A to Z, Animals, Zombies, and the Media in Africa. Department of Geography Brown Bag Series. Lawrence, Kansas. October 2011. Animals and Zombies: Western Media Representations of Africa through theLens of Video Games. Association of American Geographers: APCG Division.San Francisco, California. September 2011. Spaces of ASL: Proxemics and the American Deaf CommunityAssociation of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Seattle, Washington. April 2011. Trading Spaces: The New York Stock Exchange and the Shift from Physical to Virtual. Association of American Geographers: GPRM Division. Lawrence, Kansas. October 2010. Communication, Space, and the Deaf: Geography in American Sign Language. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C. April 2010. Incorporating Student Instruction in an LER Course. Celebrating College Teaching Conference. Kent, Ohio. October 2009. Deaf as Ethnicity, Deaf as a Nation. Association of American Geographers: East Lakes Division. Dayton, Ohio. October 2009. Exploration and History: Using the Periploi to Understand the Toponomy and Geography of the Past. Association of American Geographers: East Lakes Division. St. Catherine’s, Ontario. October 2008. Exploration Past and Present: The Periploi in our Understanding of Ancient Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Undergraduate Research Conference. University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire. May 2008. Geographic Literacy among Students at the University of New Hampshire. Undergraduate Research Conference. University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, May 2007. Publications: Fekete, Emily. “Whirling Dervishes.” Online Content. National Geographic Magazine. September 2007. Fekete, Emily. “Lava Tubes.” Online Content. National Geographic Magazine. October 2007. Fekete, Emily. “Gundestrup Cauldron.” Online Content. National Geographic Magazine. October 2007. Fekete, Emily. “Henry Ford and Biofuels.” Online Content. National Geographic Magazine. October 2007. |
Foursquare, virtual spaces (internet and video game spaces), hybrid geographies, social media, consumption, American Sign Language, linguistic (communication) spaces, Deaf communities,and spatial philosophy Awards: Isenogle Award for Most Outstanding Graduate Student, Kent State University, May 2010. Runner Up, Stanley Brunn Communication Geography AAG Specialty Group Award, April 2010. Robert LeBlanc Memorial Award, Department of Geography, University of New Hampshire, May 2008. |
