Description: This book introduces the framework of aesthetic ecology to communication studies as well as the study of communication ethics underlining the importance of the interplay between our sensuous and interpretive engagements in/with the world.
Review Quotes:
"The careful situating of communication ethics in a landscape of minute shifts in one's embodied presence is not something this reader has encountered previously--and a feature that really makes this book stand out as a unique and original contribution. Finally, here is an accessibly written book that breaks the taboo on speaking discerningly about bodily experience, and that claims this ground as a field deserving of attention both in communication ethics, and in pedagogical practice." --Atlantic Journal of Communication
"Üçok-Sayrak has successfully fulfilled her task by showing how an aesthetic ecology in everyday life is a result of attentiveness to the present, no matter how traumatic or precarious this experience might be. She convincingly demonstrates how these seemingly ephemeral elements of communication are existentially important, giving insightful illustrations of their application in real life, including descriptions of her own lived experiences." --European Journal Of Communication