[ecrea] New Book: Communication Matters: Materialist Approaches to Media, Mobility and Networks

I'd like to announce the recent publication of Communication Matters:
Materialist Approaches to Media, Mobility, and Networks (Routledge, 2012).
I hope some of you find it of interest.  I co-edited the book with my
colleague Steve Wiley.  It is the outcome of a symposium we held at North
Carolina State University in the Fall of 2009.  We had a great time working
with all of the contributors and want to publicly thank them for
participating in the symposium and for allowing us to include their
chapters.

All the best,

Jeremy Packer
Associate Professor of Communication
North Carolina State University


 *Communication Matters: Materialist Approaches to Media, Mobility, and
Networks
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*Edited by Jeremy Packer and Stephen B. Crofts Wiley*


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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.

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*Part I Orientations Media/Materiality*

Introduction The Materiality of Communication, *Jeremy Packer and Stephen
B. Crofts Wiley *Chapter

1. Media, Materiality, and the Human: A Conversation with N. Katherine
Hayles, *N. Katherine Hayles *Chapter

2. Becoming Mollusk: A conversation with John Durham Peters about Media,
Materiality, and Matters of History, *John Durham Peters *

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*Part II Communication Time/Space *

Chapter 3. Ubiquitous Sensibility, *Marc Hansen *

Chapter 4. It Changes Space and Time! Introducing Power-Chronography, *Sarah
Sharma *

Chapter 5. Zeroing In: Overhead Imagery, Infrastructure Ruins, and
Datalands in Afghanistan and Iraq, *Lisa Parks *

Chapter 6. Rhetoric, Materiality, and U.S. Western Front Commemoration, *Carole
Blair, V. William Balthrop, and Neil Michel *

Chapter 7. Materiality and Urban Communication: The Rhetoric of
Communicative Spaces, *Victoria Gallagher, Kenneth Zagacki, and Kelly
Norris Martin *

Chapter 8.The Birth of the "Neoliberal" City and its Media, *James Hay *

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*Part III Communication Assemblages/Networks *

Chapter 9. Beyond Transmission, Modes, and Media, *Jennifer Daryl Slack *

Chapter 10. Attention and Assemblage in the Clickable World, *J. Macgregor
Wise *

Chapter 11. The Documentality of Mme Briet’s Antelope, *Bernd Frohmann *

Chapter 12. Assemblages, Networks, Subjects: A Materialist Approach to the
Production of Social Space, *Stephen B. Crofts Wiley, Tabita Moreno, and
Daniel M. Sutko *

Chapter 13. Vitalism, Animality, and the Material Grounds of Rhetoric, *Byron
Hawk *

Chapter 14. 8 Mile: Networked Decision Making, *Jeff Rice *

Chapter 15. Lessons form the YMCA: The Material Rhetoric of Criticism,
Rhetorical Interpretation and Pastoral Power, *Ronald Walter Greene *

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*Part IV Communication Mobility/Immobility *

Chapter 16. Materializing US-Caribbean Borders: Airports as Technologies of
Communication, Coordination and Control, *Mimi Sheller *

Chapter 17. Publicized Privacy: Social Networking and the Compulsive Search
for Limits, *Joshua Gunn and John Sloop *

Chapter 18. Virtual Mobility: The Sign/Body of Pure Information, *Ken
Hillis *

Chapter 19. Location-aware technologies: Control and privacy in hybrid
spaces, *Adriana de Souza e Silva and Jordan Frith *

Chapter 20. Flow and Mobile Media: Broadcast Fixity to Digital
Fluidity, *Kathleen
Oswald and Jeremy Packer*


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