TY - BOOK AU - Packer,Jeremy AU - Wiley,Stephen B.Crofts TI - Communication matters: materialist approaches to media, mobility and networks T2 - Shaping inquiry in culture, communication and media studies SN - 9780415782241(hbk.) U1 - 302.23 PY - 2012/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Mass media and culture KW - Mass media KW - Social aspects KW - Social interaction KW - Technological innovations N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: the materiality of communication / Jeremy Packer and Stephen B. Crofts Wiley -- Media, materiality, and the human: a conversation with N. Katherine Hayles -- Becoming mollusk: a conversation with John Durham Peters about media, materiality, and matters of history / John Durham Peters -- Communication time/space. Ubiquitous sensibility / Marc 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 U.S. western front commemoration / Carole Blair, V. William Balthrop, and Neil Michel -- Materiality and urban communication: the rhetoric of communicative spaces / Victoria Gallagher, Kenneth Zagacki, and Kelly Norris Martin -- The birth of the "neoliberal" city and its media / James Hay -- Communication assemblages/networks. 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 -- Assemblages, networks, subjects: a materialist approach to the production of social space / Stephen B. Crofts Wiley, Tabita Moreno, 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 -- Communication mobility/immobility. Materializing US-Caribbean borders: airports as technologies of communication, coordination and control / Mimi Sheller -- Publicized privacy: social networking and the compulsive search for limits / Joshua Gunn and John Sloop -- 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 Oswald and Jeremy Packer ER -