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1 online resource (321 pages) |
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Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies |
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Shaping inquiry in culture, communication and media studies.
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Cover; Communication Matters; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Part I : Orientations media/materiality; Introduction: the materiality of communication; 1. Media, materiality, and the human: a conversation with N. Katherine Hayles; 2. Becoming mollusk: a conversation with John Durham Peters about media, materiality, and matters of history; Part II : Communication time/space; 3. Ubiquitous sensibility; 4. It changes space and time! Introducing power-chronography |
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5. Zeroing in: overhead imagery, infrastructure ruins, and datalands in Afghanistan and Iraq6. Rhetoric, materiality, and US Western Front commemoration; 7. Materiality and urban communication: the rhetoric of communicative spaces; 8. The birth of the ''neoliberal'' city and its media; Part III : Communication assemblages/networks; 9. Beyond transmission, modes, and media; 10. Attention and assemblage in the clickable world; 11. The documentality of Mme Briet's antelope; 12. Subjects, networks, assemblages: a materialist approach to the production of social space |
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13. Vitalism, animality, and the material grounds of rhetoric14. 8 Mile: networked decision making; 15. Lessons from the YMCA: the material rhetoric of criticism, rhetorical interpretation, and pastoral power; Part IV : Communication mobility/immobility; 16. Materializing US-Caribbean borders: airports as technologies of communication, coordination, and control; 17. Publicized privacy: social networking and the compulsive search for limits; 18. Virtual mobility: the sign/body of pure information; 19. Location-aware technologies: control and privacy in hybrid spaces |
| 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 |
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20. Flow and mobile media: broadcast fixity to digital fluidityIndex |
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Print version record |
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Mass media and culture.
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Mass media -- Social aspects.
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Social interaction -- Technological innovations
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Mass media and culture
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Mass media -- Social aspects
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Electronic book
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| Author |
B. Crofts Wiley, Stephen
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| ISBN |
9781136589607 |
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1136589600 |
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