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Title Communication matters : materialist approaches to media, mobility and networks / edited by Jeremy Packer and Stephen B. Crofts Wiley
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 297 pages) : illustrations
Series Shaping inquiry in culture, communication and media studies
Shaping inquiry in culture, communication and media studies.
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
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 constitutive force of communication in the production of the real. Communication Matters presents original work that rethinks communication as material and situates materialist approaches to communication within the broader "materiality turn" emerging in the humanities and social sciences. This collection will be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students in Media, Communication Studies, and Rhetoric
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Mass media and culture.
Mass media -- Social aspects.
Social interaction -- Technological innovations
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
Mass media and culture
Mass media -- Social aspects
Informationsgesellschaft
Informationstechnik
Massenmedien
Massenmedien.
Digitale Medien.
Kommunikation.
Interaktion.
Technischer Fortschritt.
Form Electronic book
Author Packer, Jeremy
Wiley, Stephen B. Crofts.
ISBN 9780203181096
0203181093
9781136589607
1136589600
9781136589591
1136589597