Techniques of Hearing (eBook, ePUB)

History, Theory and Practices
Redaktion: Schillmeier, Michael; Ochsner, Beate; Stock, Robert

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Hearing, health and technologies are entangled in multi-faceted ways. The edited volume addresses this complex relationship by arguing that modern hearing was and is increasingly linked to and mediated by technological innovations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000736373
• Artikelnr.: 65481972

Autorenporträt

Michael Schillmeier is Professor for Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Exeter (UK). He is widely published, investigating the empirical and conceptual understanding of the social and societal. Fields of interdisciplinary research include Science, Technology and Society (STS), Health and Illness, Disability Studies, Bodies, Senses, and Art. Robert Stock is Assistant Professor for Cultures of Knowledge at the Department of Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His main research interests are cultures of knowledge, digital media and dis/abilities, politics of inclusion and access work. He is co-founder of the scientific network Dis/Abilities and Digital Media funded by German Research Foundation, DFG. Beate Ochsner is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Konstanz. She is spokeswoman for the research unit "Media and participation" (mediaandparticipation.com) where she also heads the project "Techno-sensory processes of participation". Her research focuses on participatory media cultures, intersections between media and dis/ability, and gaming cultures.

Inhaltsangabe

1.An Unquiet Quiet: The History and 'Smart' Politics of Sound Masking in the Office. 2.Technologies of Silence. 3.Pleasure and Pain with Amplified Sound: A Sound and Music History of Loudspeaker Systems in Germany, ca. 1930. 4.Measuring Listening Effort: An Attempt to Quantify Mental Exertion. 5.Hearing Echoes as an Audile Technique: From "Facial Vision" to Experimental Psychology and Echolocation. 6.Mobile Music Listening and the Self-Management of Health and Well-Being. 7.Better Hearing for All - Smart Solutions for the Clinical, Subclinical and Normal-Hearing Population. 8."The Future is Ear" (Hunn 2014): Infrastructures of 'Smart Hearing'. 9.Listening or Reading? Rethinking Ableism in Relation to the Senses and (Acoustic) Text. 10.Binaural Gaming Arrangements: Techno-Sensory Configurations of Playing the Audio Game A Blind Legend. 11.Hearing Like an Animal: Exploring Acoustic Experience Beyond Human Ears. 12."Adaptive Environments": Ambient Media and the Temporalities of Sonic Selfcare. 13.The Shepherd's Farewell: Shared Hearing as (a Mode of) Healing - Music, Imagery and Emotion-Neural Dynamics. 14.Dis/abling Smartness: AAC Devices, Music and Acoustic Wellbeing.