Hush : media and sonic self-control /

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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, gende...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hagood, Mack (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Series:Sign, storage, transmission.
Subjects:
Mass media > Social aspects.
Mass media > Influence.
Noise (Philosophy)
Noise > Physiological effect.
Headphones > Health aspects.
Noise control > Equipment and supplies.
Communication and culture > United States.
Information technology > Health aspects.
Popular culture > Effect of technological innovations on.
Médias > Aspect social.
Médias > Influence.
Bruit > Philosophie.
Bruit > Effets physiologiques.
Bruit > Lutte contre > Appareils et matériel.
Communication et culture > États-Unis.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Communication and culture.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Tinnitus and its aural remedies
  • Sleep-mates and sound screens : sound, speed, and circulation in postwar America
  • The ultimate seashore : environments and the nature of technology
  • A quiet storm : orphic apps and infocentrism
  • Bose quietcomfort and the mobile production of personal space
  • Beats by Dre : race and the sonic interface.

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