Hagood Hush

Media and Sonic Self-Control
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0447-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Sign, Storage, Transmission

Mack Hagood outlines how noise-cancelling headphones, tinnitus maskers, white noise machines, nature-sound mobile apps, and other forms of media give users the ability to create sonic safe spaces for themselves, showing how the desire to block certain sounds are informed by ideologies of race, gender, and class.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hagood, Mack

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Hearing What We Want 1
Part I. Suppression 29
1. Tinnitus and Its Aural Remedies 31
Part II. Masking 73
2. Sleep-Mates and Sound Screens: Sound, Speed, and Circulation in Postwar America 75
3. The Ultimate Seashore: Environments and the Nature of Technology 116
4. A Quiet Storm: Orphic Apps and Infocentrism 148
Part III. Cancellation 175
5. Bose QuietComfort and the Mobile Production of Personal Space 177
6. Beats by Dre: Race and the Sonic Interface 198
Conclusion. Wanting What We Hear 220
Notes 235
References 245
Index 261

Über Autor(innen)

Mack Hagood is Robert H. and Nancy J. Blayney Assistant Professor of Comparative Media Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.