communication +1 provides a forum for exploring and sharing ideas about communication across modes of inquiry and perspectives. Since 2011 its primary objective has been to push the theoretical frontiers of communication as an autonomous and distinct field of research. Suspending any judgment regarding the distinction between theory and practice, this journal encourages critical reflections on communication and seeks to encourage these reflections to and among those who place communication at the center of their thinking and writing.
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Edited by Hank Gerba and Zachary McDowell
In our age of ubiquitous computation, “sense and the senses turn to eyewash.” Or so proclaimed Friedrich Kittler, fearing that the operationalization of Boolean logic, materialized and ever-miniaturized in the transistor, would sever the connection between media and the human senses. Relegated to machinic and digital connections, our communication seamlessly passes below the threshold of perception, rendered only in the strictest computational sense.
Despite the micro-temporality of computational media, this collection aims to reintroduce media of all kinds to a sensory experience by paying mind to the relationship between media and aesthetics. The work herein remains remarkably diverse, underscoring the latent imbrication of the sensory in our encounters with all forms of media, computational or otherwise. Whether theorized in an infrastructural, artifactual, haptic, or metaphorical mode, these authors affirm the aesthetic as a rich terrain for short-circuiting methodologies and fields that may not always find purchase or connection.
Jonah Jeng
2025-02-28 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Media Aesthetics
Kaya Turan
2025-02-28 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Media Aesthetics
Zachary Aaron Furste
2025-02-28 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Media Aesthetics
Tania Sarfraz
2025-02-28 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Media Aesthetics
L Archer Porter
2025-02-28 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Media Aesthetics
Connor Cook
2025-03-03 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Media Aesthetics
Sean Scanlan
2025-03-03 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Media Aesthetics
Jose Gomes Pinto
2025-03-04 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Media Aesthetics
Manuel Bogalheiro
2025-02-28 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Media Aesthetics