Research Catalog

Title

Communication matters : materialist approaches to media, mobility, and networks / edited by Jeremy Packer and Stephen B. Crofts Wiley.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Packer, Jeremy, 1970-
• Wiley, Stephen B. Crofts.

Description

xvi, 297 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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 force of communication in the production of the real. Essays are arranged in four sections: Orientations media/materiality offers an introductory essay by the editors and features interviews with two leading scholars in the field: N. Katherine Hayles and John Durham Peters; Communication time/space explores the role of media, communication, and rhetoric in the production of spaces, temporalities, and relations of power; Communication assemblages/networks develops new theoretical approaches for apprehending the material aspects of communication networks and humantechnological assemblages; Communication mobility/immobility assesses the development of communication and transportation infrastructures and technologies in relation to practices of mobility, immobility, and control. 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.

Series Statement

Shaping inquiry in culture, communication and media studies

Uniform Title

Shaping inquiry in culture, communication and media studies.

Subject

• Massenmedien
• Informationstechnik
• Informationsgesellschaft
• Mass media and culture
• Mass media > Social aspects
• Social interaction > Technological innovations
• Mass media and culture > Interviews

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: the materiality of communication / Jeremy Packer and Stephen B. Crofts Wiley -- Media, materiality, and the human: a conversation with N. Katherine Hayles / N. Katherine Hayles with Stephen B. Crofts Wiley -- Becoming mollusk: a conversation with John Durham Peters about media, materiality, and matters of history / John Durham Peters with Jeremy Packer -- Ubiquitous sensibility / Marc B. 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 US Western Front commemoration / V. William Balthrop, Carole Blair, and Neil Michel -- Materiality and urban communication: the rhetoric of communicative spaces / Victoria J. Gallagher, Kenneth S. Zagacki, and Kelly Norris Martin -- The birth of the "neoliberal" city and its media / James Hay -- 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 -- Subjects, networks, assemblages: a materialist approach to the production of social space / Stephen B. Crofts Wiley, Tabita Moreno Becerra, 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 -- Materializing US-Caribbean borders: airports as technologies of communication, coordination and control / Mimi Sheller -- Publicized privacy: social networking and the compulsive search for limits / John Sloop and Joshua Gunn -- 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 F. Oswald and Jeremy Packer.

ISBN

• 9780415782241 (hbk : alk. paper)
• 0415782244 (hbk : alk. paper)
• 9780415782258 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0415782252 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780203181096 (ebk)
• 0203181093 (ebk)

LCCN

^^2011019887

OCLC

• 788366282
• SCSB-11846116

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library