Communication matters
Subtitle: materialist approaches to media, mobility and networks
By: edited by Jeremy Packer and Stephen B. Crofts Wiley
Series: Shaping inquiry in culture, communication and media studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780415782241; 9780415782258
Subjects: Social aspects; Mass media and culture; Technological innovations; Mass media; Social interaction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the materiality of communication / Jeremy Packer and Stephen B. Crofts Wiley; title: Media, materiality, and the human: a conversation with N. Katherine Hayles; title: Becoming mollusk: a conversation with John Durham Peters about media, materiality, and matters of history / John Durham Peters; title: Communication time/space. Ubiquitous sensibility / Marc Hansen; title: It changes space and time! introducing power-chronography / Sarah Sharma; title: Zeroing in: overhead imagery, infrastructure ruins, and datalands in Afghanistan and Iraq / Lisa Parks; title: Rhetoric, materiality, and U.S. western front commemoration / Carole Blair, V. William Balthrop, and Neil Michel; title: Materiality and urban communication: the rhetoric of communicative spaces / Victoria Gallagher, Kenneth Zagacki, and Kelly Norris Martin; title: The birth of the "neoliberal" city and its media / James Hay; title: Communication assemblages/networks. beyond transmission, modes, and media / Jennifer Daryl Slack; title: Attention and assemblage in the clickable World / J. Macgregor Wise; title: The documentality of Mme Briet's Antelope / Bernd Frohmann; title: Assemblages, networks, subjects: a materialist approach to the production of social space / Stephen B. Crofts Wiley, Tabita Moreno, and Daniel M. Sutko; title: Vitalism, animality, and the material grounds of rhetoric / Byron Hawk; title: 8 mile: networked decision making / Jeff Rice; title: Lessons from the YMCA: the material rhetoric of criticism, rhetorical interpretation and pastoral power / Ronald Walter Greene; title: Communication mobility/immobility. Materializing US-Caribbean borders: airports as technologies of communication, coordination and control / Mimi Sheller; title: Publicized privacy: social networking and the compulsive search for limits / Joshua Gunn and John Sloop; title: Virtual mobility: the sign/body of pure information / Ken Hillis; title: Location-aware technologies: control and privacy in hybrid spaces / Adriana de Souza e Silva and Jordan Frith; title: Flow and mobile media: broadcast fixity to digital fluidity / Kathleen Oswald and Jeremy Packer.