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Author Schandorf, Michael, author

Title Communication as gesture : media(tion), meaning, & movement / Michael Schandorf
Edition First edition
Published Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Series Digital activism and society
Digital activism and society.
Contents Front Cover; Communication as Gesture: Media(tion), Meaning, & Movement; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; Prologue; Introduction; Chapter 1 Digital Discourse; 1.1. Digital Discourse: Language & 'Para'-language; 1.2. Digital Pragmatics; 1.2.1. Digital Para-language; 1.2.2. Emoticons; 1.2.3. Emoji; 1.2.4. Digital Identities & Cyberselves; 1.2.5. Orality & Literacy; 1.3. Digital Pragmatics Redux; Chapter 2 Information & Meaning: The Semiotics of Cybernetics; 2.1. Language as Code, Code as Language; 2.2. Semiotics, Language, & the Communication of Information
2.3. Signification & Information2.4. Signification & Mediation: Texts & Con-Texts; 2.5. Significance & Meaning: The Ethics of Information; Chapter 3 Making Meaning: Putting Space in Place; 3.1. Space: The Enactment of Relations; 3.2. Of Networks, & Other Political Metaphors; 3.3. Space Is a Verb; 3.4. Functions of Communication: Meaning-making to Space-making; 3.5. Communication & Mediation; 3.6. Mediation & Modality; 3.7. Mediation & Mediational Means; 3.8. Synthesis: Communication as Space-making; Chapter 4 Rhetoric as the Making of Meaning; 4.1. Phatic: Not 'Meta' but Fundamental
4.2. Rhetorical Pragmatics: To Influence the Confluence4.2.1. Epideictic: Acknowledging Affective & Constitutive Relations; 4.2.2. Memory: The Rhetorical Character of Re-membering; 4.2.3. Ways of Seeing: Epideictic & the Materiality of Ideology; 4.2.4. The Epideictic Enactment of Reality; 4.3. Communication Is Rhetorical; Chapter 5 Dimensions of Interaction; 5.1. Synthesis: Information, Rhetoric, & Action; 5.2. Gesture: Interaction → Intra-action; 5.3. Making Meaning, Effecting Affect; 5.4. Mediational Means of Territorialization; 5.5. Synthesis: The Dimensions of Communication; References
Summary This book critiques current assumptions about 'communication', particularly digitally mediated communication, by re-examining conceptual foundations in rhetoric, linguistics, semiotics, information theory, and cybernetics. The result is a dimensional account of interaction that is at once both intuitive and revolutionary
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 13, 2019)
Subject Communication.
Communication studies.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Comunicación
Communication.
Communication
Communicatie.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781787565159
1787565157
9781787565173
1787565173