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Place memory and emotions are popular topics in human geography. The rapid development of information technology has promoted new social media platforms, built virtual spaces that differ from physical spaces, and provided new carriers for place memory and emotional sustenance. In this study, subtitle, bullet-screen, and comment data were quantified on the basis of disembedding theory and media geography combined with the natural language processing method to explore the process of local memory awakening under the background of "digital-reality fusion," taking the documentary "A Bite of China" as the study case. The following results were obtained: 1) The theme words of the subtitles included hometown, food, taste, and life. In the bullet-screen and comment data, the words "food" and "hometown" were the core nodes that built the semantic network together with other theme words. Food has become a representative of local culture, not only as a focus of local economic development but also as a window to regional culture, and is capable of awakening people's deepest memories of their hometowns. Food reflects the good wishes and life expectations of people, with the memory of the taste of their hometown having become a symbol of this attachment and the nostalgia touching the hearts of travelers. 2) The documentary awakens social memories, shapes places in modern society, and constructs a sociocultural space that carries food culture and daily practices. From the data visualization results, it could be seen that the audience as a whole showed positive emotions, the immediacy of bullet-screen was more likely to stimulate positive emotions than comments, the semantic network of bullet-screen was denser, and the audience was more inclined to comprehensively evaluate the overall level of the video in comments. Modern media technology breaks through the limitations of physical space, bringing the experience of virtual space to the audience and allowing them to instantly express their emotions and feelings while watching the video, thereby realizing the generation of emotional ties and social relations across time and space. Mediated communication has become a habitual practice in modern society, providing channels through which audience members can exchange information and ideas and express their emotions daily, thereby shortening the mental cognitive distance of people and having the same authenticity as unmediated communication and interactions. 3) Digital media provides a new interactive platform for the audience, dissolves the geographical limitations of traditional communication, and realizes dialogue between virtual and physical spaces. It also reconstructs the relationship between people and places and shortens the emotional distance between people and hometowns while providing information for daily life practices. Digital media has reconfigured the relationship between people and places in society through new media technology, creating a new type of physical space connection; namely, virtual space. In addition to local activities, the virtual space provides a new place for people to communicate and interact with one another. Although it is also a place that carries people's emotions, it enriches the audience's experience, thus contributing to the construction of the media's sense of place. This study expands the content of dietary geography and provides theoretical and empirical references for the reconstruction of human-land relations in the digital information age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Evaluation of the importance of ecological protection is the scientific basis of ecological protection. Based on a natural resource database, this paper evaluates the importance of ecological protection in Shaanxi Province, China. With this basis, the ecological network analysis method was used to optimize the evaluation results of the importance of ecological protection, and then the spatial pattern of ecological protection in Shaanxi Province was constructed. The results show that the extremely important area of ecosystem regulation function in Shaanxi Province is 67 562.30 km2, accounting for 32.8% of the total area of the province. It is mainly distributed in the Qinba Mountains, Guanshan Mountains, and Ziwuling Mountains. The eco-sensitive area, accounting for 6.4% of the total area of the province, is 13 260.88 km2 and is mainly located in the Loess Plateau. The 30 ecological source areas and 106 ecological nodes in the study area have the distribution characteristics of being more abundant in the south and west and less abundant in the north and east. The 103 ecological corridors are mainly distributed in the north–south direction. The ecological network was used to optimize the initial evaluation results of the importance of ecological protection, and 3.3% of the extremely important area was identified and increased. The extremely important area of ecological protection in the province is 84 362.30 km2, accounting for 40.97% of the total area of the province. Based on the optimization results of the ecological protection importance evaluation, a network spatial pattern of point–line–surface ecological protection can be constructed. This study constructed a regional ecological protection pattern by combining superposition analysis and ecological network construction, which can effectively improve the accuracy and scientificity of ecological protection and restoration area delineation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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[Objective] The spatial distribution characteristics and coordination relationship between population and economy in Weihe River Basin were explored to provide theoretical basis for reducing regional gap and promoting regional coordinated development. [Methods] Based on population and GDP data of 88 counties and districts in the Weihe River Basin from 2000 to 2019, the imbalance index, geographical concentration, inconsistency index and other methods were comprehensively used to analyze the dynamic evolution characteristics of the relationship between population and economic spatial distribution in the Weihe River Basin from the overall and local levels. Based on the panel data, the influencing factors of population and economic space differentiation were analyzed. [Results] (1) The imbalance between population and economy in the Weihe River Basin had undergone a process of first decreasing and then expanding. The imbalance index had increased from 0.105 in 2000 to 0.107 in 2019, and regional development differences had always existed. (2) The spatial distribution of population and economy was characterized by dense in the southeast and sparse in the northwest, but the population factors mainly concentrated in the counties and districts along the main stream of the Weihe River, and the economic factors mainly concentrated in the municipal districts. (3) According to the inconsistency index, the relationship between population and economic spatial distribution in the Weihe River Basin could be divided into five types: economic polarization, economic advance, balanced development, population advance, and population polarization. (4) The spatial imbalance of population and economic distribution was not only affected by the market mechanism and the role of the government, but also obviously related to the level of urban development and regional development strategy of counties and districts, and the influence of explanatory variables in different periods was also different. [Conclusion] The situation of uncoordinated regional development in the Weihe River Basin is severe. It is still one of the problems to be solved in the future to promote the development of counties in the northwest of this basin, narrow the inter-provincial development gap, and promote the spatial balance of population and economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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