# National Geographic **Domain:** Science Communication / Exploration / Planetary Imagination **Doc Type:** Media Institution Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Public Mythology]], natural history, [[Planetary Sensing|Earth observation]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] --- ## Definition **National Geographic** is a scientific and cultural storytelling institution associated with geography, exploration, ecology, anthropology, photography and natural history. ## Corpus Context Its images and narratives helped construct a mass-media planetary imagination. That legacy carries both educational power and questions about who observes, frames and represents other places and peoples. ## Directory Context This institution is indexed in [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [National Geographic destination](https://on.natgeo.com/natgeotiktok)