ABSTRACT
This review essay considers productive intersections between theories of language, affect, and media with attention to ethnographies that analyze specific media channels in different cultural contexts. Linguistic anthropologists whom we reference have long argued that language includes more than its referential meanings. Media theorists likewise offer us valuable insights about the materiality and affective significance of communication channels and public forms. Media, after all, are especially good at shaping, harnessing, and circulating affective energies in the process of defining publics. We place the human voice and its related metaphors at the center of this exploration of affect, language, and media.
