| Communication Matters: Materialist Approaches to Media, Mobility and Networks Contributor(s): Packer, Jeremy (Editor), B. Crofts Wiley, Stephen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415782252 ISBN-13: 9780415782258 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $61.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 302.23 |
| LCCN: 2011019887 |
| Series: Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.05 lbs) 316 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. The book includes images of the digital media installations of Francesca Talenti, Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
