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Communication matters : materialist approaches to media, mobility, and networks / edited by Jeremy Packer and Stephen B. Crofts Wiley.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Shaping inquiry in culture, communication and media studies.
- Shaping inquiry in culture, communication and media studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media and culture.
- Mass media--Social aspects.
- Mass media.
- Social interaction--Technological innovations.
- Social interaction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Communication has often been understood as a realm of immaterial, insubstantial phenomena-images, messages, thoughts, languages, cultures, and ideologies-mediating our embodied experience of the concrete world. Communication Matters challenges this view, assembling leading scholars in the fields of Communication, Rhetoric, and English to focus on the materiality of communication. Building on the work of materialist theorists such as Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Friedrich Kittler, and Henri Lefebvre, the essays collected here examine the materiality of discourse itself and the c
- Contents:
- Introduction: the materiality of communication / Jeremy Packer and Stephen B. Crofts Wiley
- Media, materiality, and the human: a conversation with N. Katherine Hayles
- Becoming mollusk: a conversation with John Durham Peters about media, materiality, and matters of history / John Durham Peters
- Communication time/space. Ubiquitous sensibility / Marc Hansen
- It changes space and time! introducing power-chronography / Sarah Sharma
- Zeroing in: overhead imagery, infrastructure ruins, and datalands in Afghanistan and Iraq / Lisa Parks
- Rhetoric, materiality, and U.S. western front commemoration / Carole Blair, V. William Balthrop, and Neil Michel
- Materiality and urban communication: the rhetoric of communicative spaces / Victoria Gallagher, Kenneth Zagacki, and Kelly Norris Martin
- The birth of the "neoliberal" city and its media / James Hay
- Communication assemblages/networks. beyond transmission, modes, and media / Jennifer Daryl Slack
- Attention and assemblage in the clickable World / J. Macgregor Wise
- The documentality of Mme Briet's Antelope / Bernd Frohmann
- Assemblages, networks, subjects: a materialist approach to the production of social space / Stephen B. Crofts Wiley, Tabita Moreno, and Daniel M. Sutko
- Vitalism, animality, and the material grounds of rhetoric / Byron Hawk
- 8 mile: networked decision making / Jeff Rice
- Lessons from the YMCA: the material rhetoric of criticism, rhetorical interpretation and pastoral power / Ronald Walter Greene
- Communication mobility/immobility. Materializing US-Caribbean borders: airports as technologies of communication, coordination and control / Mimi Sheller
- Publicized privacy: social networking and the compulsive search for limits / Joshua Gunn and John Sloop
- Virtual mobility: the sign/body of pure information / Ken Hillis
- Location-aware technologies: control and privacy in hybrid spaces / Adriana de Souza e Silva and Jordan Frith
- Flow and mobile media: broadcast fixity to digital fluidity / Kathleen Oswald and Jeremy Packer.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781136589591
- 1136589597
- 9780203181096
- 0203181093
- 9780415782241
- 0415782244
- 9781136589607
- 1136589600
- OCLC:
- 852756266
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