Communication Uncovered: General Semantics and Media Ecology

In this highly readable and well-arranged compilation-including his much-celebrated "The Practice of Reading Good Books" and award-winning "Playing with Bateson"-Corey Anton brings together some of his most accessible and well-received essays. The collection, in addition to advancing and integrating the fields of media ecology and general semantics, will be of great interest to people who are concerned over the changing role of reading and literacy in contemporary life. A stimulating and provocative book having wide relevance to scholars and students in the areas of semiotics, rhetorical theory, orality/literacy studies, philosophy of communication, pedagogical theory, and communication theory, Communication Uncovered offers countless insights and broad-based orientations regarding the nature of language, linguistic and communicative habits, communication technologies, and symbolic practices more generally. This is a "must have" resource for anyone interested in multidisciplinary communication theory.

Corey Anton (PhD., Purdue University) is Professor of Communication Studies at Grand Valley State University. His publications can be found in journals such as: Philosophy and Rhetoric, Communication Theory, Semiotica, afterimage, Communication Studies, and Human Studies.  He is author of Selfhood and Authenticity (2001, SUNY Press), Sources of Significance: Worldly Rejuvenation and Neo-Stoic Heroism (2010, Purdue University Press), and is the editor of Valuation and Media Ecology: Ethics, Morals, and Laws (2010, Hampton Press).  Past Editor of the journal Explorations in Media Ecology, and Past-Chair of the Semiotics and Communication Division of the National Communication Association, Anton currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Institute of General Semantics, and on the editorial boards of both The Atlantic Journal of Communication and Explorations in Media Ecology.