Matters of Communication (International Communication Association)

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 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.