Communication as Gesture: Media(tion), Meaning, & Movement by Michael Schandorf

Description: Communication as Gesture by Michael Schandorf, Athina Karatzogianni 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description While the concept of communication has long been bound to a reductive model of the exchange of information, very few scholars of communication would argue that these assumptions are realistic, without a long list of qualifying caveats. But the concept of communication, built from the integration of semiotic signification with the idea of information as the carrier of transmitted meaning, is so deeply ingrained and simple that even displacing it can seem futile, if not absurd. Nevertheless, these foundational assumptions tightly constrain the ways in which any interactional phenomena can be conceived--and constraints upon our ways of understanding communication drastically limit our capacity to understand our worlds and the social processes that generate them, at any scale or level of abstraction. Communication as Gesture traces the concept of communication from its roots in classical rhetoric to its integration in structural linguistics, semiotics, information theory, and cybernetics, integrating perspectives from contemporary rhetorical theory, relational psychology, interactional sociology, philosophy, cognitive linguistics, discourse studies, multimodal semiotics, and more. Because so much of our contemporary world is lived with and through digital media technologies, the study of new media and social media provides a rich illustration of the constraints imposed by our reductive assumptions--and hints at the possibilities generated by rethinking them. The gesture theory of communication introduced presents a dimensional account of communication that is intuitively accessible and theoretically rich while overturning reductive assumptions of the linear character of interaction. Author Biography Michael Schandorf is Lecturer in Arts Studies in Research and Writing at the University of British Columbia. His research and scholarship focuses on the ways in which people make meaning, and the social and political implications of those processes. Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1. Digital Discourse Chapter 2. Information & Meaning: The Semiotics of Cybernetics Chapter 3. Making Meaning: Putting Space in Place Chapter 4. Rhetoric as the Making of Meaning Chapter 5. Dimensions of Interaction Review The author explores the concept of communication as a gesture consisting of a meaningful movement that creates relations and defines the space of interaction between people. He reconsiders the roots of the study of communication in rhetoric, linguistics, semiotics, information theory, and cybernetics, to uncover the theoretical and methodological limitations and traditional assumptions about communication, including digital communication; shows that a more relational understanding of communication processes can be gathered from the relations among these roots; and reintegrates these theoretical and philosophical roots with more recent work in spatial cognition, interactional sociology, and ecological and relational psychology to present an account of communication based on the concept of gesture. He examines the study of digital media and discourse, the semiotics of cybernetics, the role of space in communication, rhetoric as the making of meaning, and the dimensions of interaction in communication. The book is an extended version of the authors dissertation. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) * Review Quote The author explores the concept of communication as a gesture consisting of a meaningful movement that creates relations and defines the space of interaction between people. He reconsiders the roots of the study of communication in rhetoric, linguistics, semiotics, information theory, and cybernetics, to uncover the theoretical and methodological limitations and traditional assumptions about communication, including digital communication; shows that a more relational understanding of communication processes can be gathered from the relations among these roots; and reintegrates these theoretical and philosophical roots with more recent work in spatial cognition, interactional sociology, and ecological and relational psychology to present an account of communication based on the concept of gesture. He examines the study of digital media and discourse, the semiotics of cybernetics, the role of space in communication, rhetoric as the making of meaning, and the dimensions of interaction in communication. The book is an extended version of the authors dissertation. Details ISBN1787565165 Author Athina Karatzogianni Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited Year 2019 ISBN-10 1787565165 ISBN-13 9781787565166 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2019-06-19 Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited Subtitle Media(tion), Meaning, & Movement Place of Publication Bingley Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 302.2 Pages 304 Short Title Communication As Gesture Language English UK Release Date 2019-06-19 AU Release Date 2019-06-19 NZ Release Date 2019-06-19 Series Digital Activism And Society: Politics, Economy And Culture In Network Communication Alternative 9781787565159 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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