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OverviewSounds of the City opens up a new area in sociological and urban studies: the aural experience of the social, mediated through mobile technologies of communication. In this innovative new study, Michael Bull argues that contemporary urban culture is witnessing a major social transformation in how people communicate in key areas of everyday life. Where in earlier times the experience of sound was collective and relatively fixed, we now increasingly carry our own privatized sound world with us as we move. The implications of this for notions of social cohesion are considerable. Similarly, this method of investigating urban relations opens up fascinating lines of speculation on the new sanctuary of private experience, arrived at through the Walkman and the loss of the chance encounters of the street in favour of a chosen and narrower set of social relations created by the car and the phone. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael BullPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.385kg ISBN: 9780415257510ISBN 10: 0415257514 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 13 December 2007 Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Sound Moves, iPod Culture and Urban Experience: An Introduction 2. Sound Epistemologies: Strategies and Technologies 3. Sounding Out Cosmopolitanism: iPod Culture and Regognition 4. The Audio-Visual iPod: Aesthetics and the City 5. Interpersonal Sound Strategies and iPod Culture 6. Mobilization of the Social: Mobile Phones and iPods 7. Contextualizing the Senses: The Auditory World of Automobility 8. The Auditory Privatisation of the Workplace 9. Bergson's iPod?: The Cognitive Management of Everyday Life 10. The Nostalgia of iPod Culture 11. Sound Timings and iPod Culture 12. Endnote: Sound MediationsReviews<p> It will be of use to any student of the way consumer techonologies colonise our everyday lives. Rob Clowes<p> Bull's meditation on the iPod has many merits Rob Clowes<p>Michael Bull, aka Professor iPod or Dr. iPod, is a professor in media and film at England's University of Sussex who studies the cultural impact of digital music devices. He has spent the last three years interviewing more than 1,000 iPod owners in the United States and abroad for his new book - Wired News<p>Lecturer Dr. Michael Bull is the world's leading -- perhaps only -- expert on the social impact of personal stereo devices, The New York Times. <p> Bull (Univ. of Sussex, UK)--aka Professor iPod (per Wired magazine)--presents a sociological, scholarly view of the culture shifts resulting from the iPod...Recommended. <p>-- N.J. Johnson, Metropolitan State University, Choice<p> <p> It will be of use to any student of the way consumer techonologies colonise our everyday lives. Rob Clowes <p> Bull's meditation on the iPod has many merits Rob Clowes <p>Michael Bull, aka Professor iPod or Dr. iPod, is a professor in media and film at England's University of Sussex who studies the cultural impact of digital music devices. He has spent the last three years interviewing more than 1,000 iPod owners in the United States and abroad for his new book - Wired News <p>Lecturer Dr. Michael Bull is the world's leading -- perhaps only -- expert on the social impact of personal stereo devices, The New York Times. <p> Bull (Univ. of Sussex, UK)--aka Professor iPod (per Wired magazine)--presents a sociological, scholarly view of the culture shifts resulting from the iPod...Recommended. <p>-- N.J. Johnson, Metropolitan State University, Choice <p> Author InformationMichael Bull is Reader in Media and Film Studies at the University of Sussex. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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