1st Edition

Sound Moves iPod Culture and Urban Experience

By Michael Bull Copyright 2007
196 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

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, Michael Bull argues that it is not surprising that the Apple iPod, a sound based technology, is the first consumer cultural icon of the... Read more

1. 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 Mediations

Biography

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

"It will be of use to any student of the way consumer techonologies colonise our everyday lives." Rob Clowes

"Bull's meditation on the iPod has many merits" Rob Clowes

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

Lecturer Dr. Michael Bull is "the world's leading -- perhaps only -- expert on the social impact of personal stereo devices,"  The New York Times.

"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."

-- N.J. Johnson, Metropolitan State University, Choice