| | List of Figures |
| | List of contributors |
| | Acknowledgments |
PART I Orientations media/materiality |
| | Introduction: The materiality of communication |
| | JEREMY PACKER AND STEPHEN B. CROFTS WILEY |
| 1 | Media, materiality, and the human: A conversation with N. Katherine Hayles |
| | N. KATHERINE HAYLES WITH STEPHEN B. CROFTS WILEY |
| 2 | Becoming mollusk: A conversation with John Durham Peters about media, materiality, and matters of history |
| | JOHN DURHAM PETERS WITH JEREMY PACKER |
PART II Communication time/space |
| 3 | Ubiquitous sensibility |
| | MARK B. N. HANSEN |
| 4 | It changes space and time!: Introducing power-chronography |
| | SARAH SHARMA |
| 5 | Zeroing in: Overhead imagery, infrastructure ruins, and datalands in Afghanistan and Iraq |
| | LISA PARKS |
| 6 | Rhetoric, materiality, and US Western Front commemoration |
| | V. WILLIAM BALTHROP, CAROLE BLAIR AND NEIL MICHEL |
| 7 | Materiality and urban communication: The rhetoric of communicative spaces |
| | VICTORIA J. GALLAGHER, KENNETH S. ZAGACKI AND KELLY NORRIS MARTIN |
| 8 | The birth of the “neoliberal” city and its media |
| | JAMES HAY |
PART III Communication assemblages/networks |
| 9 | Beyond transmission, modes, and media |
| | JENNIFER DARYL SLACK |
| 10 | Attention and assemblage in the clickable world |
| | J. MACGREGOR WISE |
| 11 | The documentality of Mme Briet’s antelope |
| | BERND FROHMANN |
| 12 | Subjects, networks, assemblages: A materialist approach to the production of social space |
| | STEPHEN B. CROFTS WILEY, TABITA MORENO BECERRA AND DANIEL M. SUTKO |
| 13 | Vitalism, animality, and the material grounds of rhetoric |
| | BYRON HAWK |
| 14 | 8 Mile: Networked decision making |
| | JEFF RICE |
| 15 | Lessons from the YMCA: The material rhetoric of criticism, rhetorical interpretation, and pastoral power |
| | RONALD WALTER GREENE |
PART IV Communication mobility/immobility |
| 16 | Materializing US–Caribbean borders: Airports as technologies of communication, coordination, and control |
| | MIMI SHELLER |
| 17 | Publicized privacy: Social networking and the compulsive search for limits |
| | JOHN SLOOP AND JOSHUA GUNN |
| 18 | Virtual mobility: The sign/body of pure information |
| | KEN HILLIS |
| 19 | Location-aware technologies: Control and privacy in hybrid spaces |
| | ADRIANA DE SOUZA E SILVA AND JORDAN FRITH |
| 20 | Flow and mobile media: Broadcast fixity to digital fluidity |
| | KATHLEEN OSWALD AND JEREMY PACKER |
| | Index |