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C. Kaha Waite has written an elegant work that finally puts some flesh on Marshall McLuhan's belief that media work their effects by restructuring the human sensorium and altering modes of being in the world. However, her guides in this undertaking, Walter Ong and Maurice Merleau Ponty, connect her to our deepest understanding of perception and experience. A wonderful book that extends our knowledge of media and communication. (James W. Carey, Professor, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University) 'Mediation and the Communication Matrix' is a milestone in communication and media studies, as well as screen studies. C. Kaha Waite integrates media ecology scholarship with phenomenological method as she examines the role that communication modes play in aesthetics, perception, consciousness, and the sense of self. This is a book that will delight scholars and students alike. (Lance Strate, President, Media Ecology Association and Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University) This is a path-breaking book - powerful and innovative. It draws a line around Merleau-Ponty, Ong, and McLuhan, and boldly anticipates the next frontier for communication scholars. Digital technologies and electronic media redefine the social fabric as well as the concepts of self, person, consciousness, and the post-global universe. C. Kaha Waite gives us the language and the theoretical tools to imagine ourselves into this new future. We owe her a great debt. (Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) This is one of those very serious books that is a delight to read. C. Kaha Waite focuses her analytical mind on the screen of individual 'self'. I appreciated the manner in which Waite relieves human communication theory of the Popperian burden of falsifiability by privileging the mythic in discussing the self, media, the screen, and society. The writing is careful, deliberate, thoughtful, inventive, and provocative. Waite is zealous in her phenomenologically driven analysis of the communication matrix. While explicating her understanding of media ecology, the author provides a very close consideration of the noetic consequences of print/writing. I recommend this book to all students of human communication. (Frank E. X. Dance, John Evans Professor of Human Communication Studies, University of Denver)

« 'Mediation and the Communication Matrix' is a milestone in communication and media studies, as well as screen studies. C. Kaha Waite integrates media ecology scholarship with phenomenological method as she examines the role that communication modes play in aesthetics, perception, consciousness, and the sense of self. This is a book that will delight scholars and students alike.

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The Author: C. Kaha Waite is currently Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Communication at Hamilton College. She earned an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in communication and philosophy from the University of Illinois. Her scholarship focuses on the essential features of communication technologies, as those technologies contribute to emergent social forms.

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