Hush - Mack Hagood

Hush

Media and Sonic Self-Control

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0380-9 (ISBN)
29,90 inkl. MwSt
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.
For almost sixty years, media technologies have promised users the ability to create sonic safe spaces for themselves—from bedside white noise machines to Beats by Dre's “Hear What You Want” ad campaign, in which Colin Kaepernick's headphones protect him from taunting crowds. In Hush, Mack Hagood draws evidence from noise-canceling headphones, tinnitus maskers, LPs that play ocean sounds, nature-sound mobile apps, and in-ear smart technologies to argue the true purpose of media is not information transmission, but rather the control of how we engage our environment. These devices, which Hagood calls orphic media, give users the freedom to remain unaffected in the changeable and distracting spaces of contemporary capitalism and reveal how racial, gendered, ableist, and class ideologies shape our desire to block unwanted sounds. In a noisy world of haters, trolls, and information overload, guarded listening can be a necessity for self-care, but Hagood argues our efforts to shield ourselves can also decrease our tolerance for sonic and social difference. Challenging our self-defeating attempts to be free of one another, he rethinks media theory, sound studies, and the very definition of media.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Sign, Storage, Transmission
Zusatzinfo 61 illustrations
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 408 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4780-0380-4 / 1478003804
ISBN-13 978-1-4780-0380-9 / 9781478003809
Zustand Neuware
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