Matters of Communication: Political, Cultural and Technological Challenges (Timothy Kuhn)
	Quantity in Basket:none Code: 978-1-61289-028-9 Price:$59.50 Title: Matters of Communication Sub-title: Political, Cultural and Technological Challenges Editor(s): Timothy Kuhn Publish Date: May 2011 Pages: 256 Format: Cloth
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This book is an invitation to consider the consequences of thinking about communication as (im)material with respect to pressing political, cultural and technological problems. Arguing against those who would separate the social world into the material and the symbolic, communication scholars increasingly assert that communication matters in social life precisely because it is the central nexus of constitution: The point at which objects, sites and bodies intertwine with—and become inseparable from—norms, ideologies, and values in the production of social phenomena. Pursuing this vision, the 10 chapters (along with a preface and introduction) provide theoretical and empirical examples that show how communicative practice consitutes efforts to shape communities, exercise control, and engage in projects of social transformation. Taken as a whole, the volume capitalizes on our contemporary encounter with materiality to evoke conceptions of communication with the potential to open up novel engagements with political, cultural, and technological challenges. Contents: Preface, François Cooren. Introduction: Engaging Materiality, Communication and Social Problems, Timothy Kuhn. part I theoretical explanations. Infinite Availability: About Hypercommunication and Old Age, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. Discourse and the Materiality of its Artifacts, Klaus Krippendorff. Materiality of the Self: Toward a Reconceptualization of Identity in Communication, Sachi Sekimoto. Materiality, Structuration, and Communication, Robert D. McPhee and Joel O. Iverson. Foucault’s “Materiality of the Incorporeal” and Communication in Modern Society, Alexandre Macmillan. Materiality as Organizational Communication: Technology, Intention, and Delegation in the Production of Meaning, Paul M. Leonardi and William C. Barley. PART II EMPIRICAL EXPLORATIONS. The Transnational Communication of “Racism”: Media, Migration, and the Shaping of International Relations, Ien Ang and Nayantara Pothen. Rumors and Strategic Communication: The Gendered Construction and Transmediation of a Terrorist Life Story, Chris Lundry and Pauline Hope Cheong. Materializing Guanxi: Practice of Liao Tian in Chinese Business Settings, Mylene Hardy and Guowei Jian. Understanding Meaning and Embodiment of Power: Distance in Malaysian Public Organization, Hassan Abu Bakar and Che Su Mustaffa. Author Index. Subject Index.