• Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2012 • Futures of Communication

    Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2012 • Futures of Communication


As its name suggests, communication +1 seeks to move thinking about communication toward unexplored terrain whose outline can be discerned only by continuous communications about communication. Rather than letting specific forms of communication guide our research agenda, rather than focusing on so-called “contents” or “messages” that reduce communication as event or process to semiotic objects, we suggest that we take a step back to revisit the very concept formation, with which we have always and already begun and on the basis which the study of communication may hope to mark out its distinct field of inquiry. Active in this project is a certain projection, a point of view by which to think about communication without foretelling what is to be found in our exploration. We hope to open a space for those for whom communication is at the center of their work – suggesting new lines of inquiry and thematizing communication as constitutive of our social being.

We are pleased to present the inaugural issue. To the authors we extend our deep gratitude for their contributions; to the readers we extend our invitation for inputs and suggestions.

The following pages begin a conversation we hope will continue. And it is to those whom have spoken we shall turn.

Articles


Presence in a Pocket. Phantasms of Immediacy in Japanese Mobile Telepresence Robotics

Timo Kaerlein

2012-08-30 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2012 • Futures of Communication

The Future of Reading/Thinking: Epistemological Construction in the Age of the Kindle

Benjamin J Cline

2012-08-30 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2012 • Futures of Communication

Communication and Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges for the 21st Century

David J. Gunkel

2012-08-30 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2012 • Futures of Communication

Discursive Games and Gamic Discourses

Gerald Voorhees

2012-08-30 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2012 • Futures of Communication

Wasting the Future: The Technological Sublime, Communications Technologies, and E-waste

Sabine LeBel

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Communication, Technology, Temporality

Mark A. Martinez

2012-08-30 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2012 • Futures of Communication

From Punched Cards to 'Big Data': A Social History of Database Populism

Kevin Driscoll

2012-08-30 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2012 • Futures of Communication