International Conference on Mass Media Maps. Approaches - Results - Social Impact: Berlin - June 19 - 21, 1997 - Proceedings

The „International Conference on Mass Media Maps" was organised to bring together people from different spheres of activities as well as from different regions of Europe and North America to exchange and discuss their works and experiences under the issues „approaches - results - social impact". According to our assumptions, an international conference like this has never taken place before. The representatives of the different spheres of activities are commonly occupied with or interested in the growing field of maps in mass media (locator/reference maps, weather maps) as a special variety of infographic design, and - in the same way - of scientific map making as well as weather forecasting. Based on cartographic, meteorological and graphic communications, particularly developed during the German research project „Journalistic Cartography" (1988-1993 completed at the Department of Cartography, Freie Universität Berlin) specialists were invited from Europe and North America where those cartographic artefacts have influenced the appearance and the impact of mass media in varying scales. […] The proceedings of the Berlin MMM-conference, containing 29 contributions, truly mirror the sessions' sequence and clearly prove that most of the objectives of the conference have been achieved in an excellent way. Participants from Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom and the USA gave very professional papers which in general were followed by intensive and vivid discussions, accompanied by a large poster exhibition of mass media maps and attended by a studious audience. Due to the fact that English as the means of communication of the MMM-conference was not sufficiently familiar to all participants, some papers and some contributions to the discussions were presented in German; in this volume they are followed by an English summary.