ISBN:
9780415257510
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (193 p)
Series Statement:
International Library of Sociology
Parallel Title:
Print version Sound Moves : iPod Culture and Urban Experience
DDC:
306.4/842
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This innovative study opens up a new area in sociological and urban studies: the aural experience of the social, mediated through mobile technologies of communication. Whilst we live in a world dominated by visual epistemologies of urban experience, Michael Bull argues that it is not surprising that the Apple iPod, a sound based technology, is the first consumer cultural icon of the twenty-first century. This book, in using the example of the Apple iPod, investigates the way in which we use sound to construct key areas of our daily lives. The author argues that the Apple iPod acts as an urban
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Sound moves, iPod culture and urban experience: an introduction; 2 Sound epistemologies: strategies and technologies; 3 Sounding out cosmopolitanism: iPod culture and recognition; 4 The audio-visual iPod: aesthetics and the city; 5 Interpersonal sound strategies and iPod culture; 6 Mobilising of the social: mobile phones and iPods; 7 Contextualising the senses: the auditory world of automobility; 8 The auditory privatisation of the workplace; 9 Bergson's iPod? The cognitive management of everyday life
Description / Table of Contents:
10 The nostalgia of iPod culture11 Sound timings and iPod culture; 12 Endnote: sound mediations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
