Sound Moves

iPod Culture and Urban Experience

By:

Michael Bull

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Paperback / softback

Series:

International Library of Sociology

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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, yet Michael Bull argues it is not surprising that the Apple iPod, a sound based technology, is the first consumer cultural icon of the 21st. 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 Sherpa for many of its users and in doing so joins the mobile army of technologies that many of us habitually use to accompany our daily lives. Through our use of such mobile and largely sound based devices, the book demonstrates how and why the spaces of the city are being transformed right in front of our ears.

Author Biography:

Michael Bull is Reader in Media and Film Studies at the University of Sussex.

Release date NZ

December 13th, 2007

Author

Michael Bull

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

196

Series

International Library of Sociology

Dimensions

156x234x11

ISBN-13

9780415257527

Product ID

1681808

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