“…Although the flood of images has increased, creating the impression that this is a comparatively new phenomenon, the underlying modes of construction of geographies are certainly not new. Indeed, as Tilo Felgenhauer and Antje Schlottmann (2007) argue, this involves methods of appropriating the world that are firmly established in the "language of space" and are continually reproduced in many variations. Using the example of the (re)construction of "Mitteldeutschland" [Central Germany] by the media, they thereby break through common simplified conceptions of "the media" as actors in the production of opinions and views of the world, and turn the argument around: media portrayals often play a less active and more reactive role in the everyday production of "world-views".…”