Communication matters
Materialistic approaches to media, mobility, and networks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20299533 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alireza Isfandyari-Moghaddam, Alireza Isfandyari‐Moghaddam (Islamic Azad University of Hamedan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | E9-E13 |
| Publication date | 2012-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9916 • E-ISSN: 1460-2466 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2012.01662.x |
| OpenAlex | W2006753085 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
After holding the first annual CRDM (Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media) Research Symposium entitled “Materializing Communication and Rhetoric: Technologies, Infrastructures, Flows” in North Carolina State University at 25th and 26th of September 2009, it was decided to develop and revise the presented essays for the book Communication Matters: Materialistic Approaches to Media, Mobility, and Networks. Opposed the idea that 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 (p. i), the editors and authors' thesis is based on the materiality of communication and its constitutive force in the production of the real. Hence, as mentioned at page 4, such a collected attempt aims to add to an understanding of materiality through emphasizing the constitutive role of communication and media. The present review examines to what extent the book has succeeded in forming its
Aesthetics · Art · Communication studies · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ideology · Linguistics · Materialism · Materiality (auditing) · Media studies · New media · Political science · Realm · Rhetoric · Social science · Sociology · Digital Games and Media · Law · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |