Few key elements in the communications field have received such a low critical review as the notion of space. This point is surprising. There are several contributions that invite to a reconceptualization of what we understand by this concept, and that come from contributions made by Edward Hall and his proxemic theory; or the analytical developments of Foucalt, Certeau and Bourdieu’s work. Despite all this genealogy, the space is still understood, almost, related to common sense, as a mere scenery where things happen. The important thing, from the communications perspective, is to analyze what type of representations are built in the interaction between people, as if the environment were the same in every culture.

A good example of how notions of space, geography and political economics can be thought is the classic book of David Harvey, The condition of posmodernity. For the author, posmodernity implies a new form of conceptualizing the space-time experience, that, even when it doesn’t imply a radical rupture with modernism, it has new elements to be analyzed.

Direct communicatin has been a field that, traditionally, communication careers in Argentina have neglected, focusing in hyperobserving the media. Despite, quotidian life was a relevant object of study from multiple authors, some as different as Gramsci, de Certeau, Goffman or Garfinkel.

In tourism, the space is highly regulated to guarantee certain behaviors and discourage others. What it’s looking for is that visitors spend as much money as possible, stay for a while and then leave. And any legislation clearly establishes maximum stay periods in their countries, after which a person loses his tourist status.

There are many tight links between the forms of contruction of space and time, worth to be developed in further entries.