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Media Geographies is a book about how spatial constraints of human communities configure and define our existence in the world. it explores the public discussion of the economic crisis and the challenges this crisis created for a democratic system. Its point of departure is the media portrayal of a small nation state, Finland, during an exceptionally deep economic depression. Through a multifaceted analysis of the regional newspapers, and cultural history, different regions emerge with their own history: the past, the present, and ways of addressing the future. Journalism in general does not reflect only dominant cultural values, but also nation's political history, the main staples of economic system and geographical relations between the centre and the peripheries. The author shows how media, economy, and history interact in a media market that recreates and shapes specific cultures in time and space.