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Mechanical Sound

Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century

By: Karin Bijsterveld

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Mechanical Sound

Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century

By: Karin Bijsterveld

Tracing efforts to control unwanted sound--the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft--from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.

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MIT Press (MA)

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026226854X

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9780262268547

Sonic Skills

Listening for Knowledge in Science, Medicine and Engineering (1920s-Present)

By: Karin Bijsterveld

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Sonic Skills

Listening for Knowledge in Science, Medicine and Engineering (1920s-Present)

By: Karin Bijsterveld

It is common for us today to associate the practice of science primarily with the act of seeing—with staring at computer screens, analyzing graphs, and presenting images. We may notice that physicians use stethoscopes to listen for disease, that biologists tune into sound recordings to understand birds, or that engineers have created Geiger tellers warning us for radiation through sound. But in the sciences overall, we think, seeing is believing. This open access book explains why, indeed, listening for knowledge plays an ambiguous, if fascinating, role in the sciences. For what purposes have scientists, engineers and physicians listened to the objects of their interest? How did they listen exactly? And why has listening often been contested as a legitimate form of access to scientific knowledge? This concise monograph combines historical and ethnographic evidence about the practices of listening on shop floors, in laboratories, field stations, hospitals, and conference halls, between the 1920s and today. It shows how scientists have used sonic skills—skills required for making, recording, storing, retrieving, and listening to sound—in ensembles: sets of instruments and techniques for particular situations of knowledge making. Yet rather than pleading for the emancipation of hearing at the expense of seeing, this essay investigates when, how, and under which conditions the ear has contributed to science dynamics, either in tandem with or without the eye.

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Springer

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1137598298

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9781137598295

Sound and Safe

A History of Listening Behind the Wheel

By: Karin Bijsterveld,Eefje Cleophas,Stefan Krebs,Gijs Mom

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A History of Listening Behind the Wheel

By: Karin Bijsterveld,Eefje Cleophas,Stefan Krebs,Gijs Mom

This book traces the full history of noise in and around cars, shows how we created auditory privacy in our cars, even though they were highly noisy things at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is about the sounds of car engines, tires, wipers, blinkers, warning signals, in-car audio systems and, ultimately, about how we became used to listen while driving.

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249

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199925690

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9780199925698

Mechanical Sound

Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century

By: Karin Bijsterveld

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Mechanical Sound

Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century

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Tracing efforts to control unwanted sound--the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft--from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.

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0262026392

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9780262026390

Sonic Skills

Listening for Knowledge in Science, Medicine and Engineering (1920s-Present)

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Listening for Knowledge in Science, Medicine and Engineering (1920s-Present)

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1349959200

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Sonic Skills

Listening for Knowledge in Science, Medicine and Engineering (1920s-Present)

By: Karin Bijsterveld

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Listening for Knowledge in Science, Medicine and Engineering (1920s-Present)

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From ASCII Art to Comic Sans

Typography and Popular Culture in the Digital Age

By: Karin Wagner

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From ASCII Art to Comic Sans

Typography and Popular Culture in the Digital Age

By: Karin Wagner

A fresh and provocative take on typography, computing, and popular culture, viewed through four idiosyncratic typographical phenomena from the digital age. From ASCII Art to Comic Sans offers an original vision of the history of typography and computing in the digital age, viewed through the lens of offbeat typography. We often regard text as pure information and typography as a transparent art form without meaning of its own. In this richly illustrated book, however, Karin Wagner offers a fresh perspective that shows how text is always an image that conveys meaning, and how typography, far from being meaningless, has in fact shaped modern visual and material culture in significant ways. By juxtaposing four odd typographical phenomena—the pedantic practice of ASCII art, the curious-looking machine-readable typefaces, the blurry letters of dot matrix printers, and the much-maligned font Comic Sans—Wagner paints a vivid picture of how functional technologies influence popular culture when used in ways their original creators never intended. Design practitioners, as well as fans of media, graphic design, type history, and computer technology, will enjoy this breezily sophisticated perspective on visual and digital culture. Spanning the material and visual aspects of typography from the 1960s to the present, From ASCII Art to Comic Sans is a unique contribution to the study of popular and material culture that fills a gap in the history of typography and computing.

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MIT Press

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0262375214

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Sound and Safe

A History of Listening Behind the Wheel

By: Karin Bijsterveld,Eefje Cleophas,Stefan Krebs,Gijs Mom

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A History of Listening Behind the Wheel

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