Talk:Materiality (social sciences and humanities)

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Khascall.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 00:43, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Improving this article

@Khascall:: This is a great start of an article on an important topic with lots of excellent detail. It's well referenced and a great first start.

For Khascall and whoever comes along, I had a few thoughts and pieces of feedback of how to take this article moving forward:

• I'm not sure that this concept of materiality as described in this article is limited to the social sciences. Humanists also use the concept in a very similar way or at least in a way that is not distinct that we would want a separate article. Indeed, several pieces of seminal work alluded to this article that are humanistic. It's used very similarly in literature. We might want to retitle this article.
• The article is very focused on research within communication studies and focused on the Toronto school of communication theory in particular. That makes sense given that this came out of a WikiEd powewered class project for a communication graduate seminar, but this should be improved by someone in the future so that the article gives a broader view of the topic. Even if the article stays focused on the social sciences, I think it should be broader.
• If the article is not retitled or broadened, I think we should consider merging this into the Toronto school of communication theory article. As written, it's not clear that it's doing much other than summarize the ideas of that body of theory.

That's it for now! I'm happy to discuss more! —mako๛ 19:03, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Ok, I went ahead with an (unwieldy) retitle to 'social sciences and humanities'. Will keep thinking about expansions to address limits in scope. Khascall (talk) 21:38, 17 December 2017 (UTC)