Sounding the internet

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Sounding the internet

• An interdisciplinary review and research agenda

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Sound and silence

• Sound 24/7
• Speech (from mobile phones to VoIP)
• Music (from walkman to virtual worlds)
• Soundscapes (toward pervasive computing)
• Sound studies ?
• Visualitys poor cousin
• Disciplinary fragmentation
• Digitalization as unique opportunity

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Sound of 3 degrees

• Media of 1st degree
• Human presence - speaking, singing, giving sound
• Media of 2nd degree
• Technologically reproduced representations and
  interactions (Benjamin, 1936)
• Media of 3rd degree
• Digitally processed, recombined, and remediated
  representation and interaction

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A matrix for sound studies
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Aspects of a research agenda

• Sound as a form of communication, modality of
  experience, and resource for cultural expression
  and social action
• Sound as information
• From parliamentary session to streamed political
  debates
• Sound as communication
• From verbal greetings to program skins and site
  jingles
• Sound as action
• From work instructions to team commands in online
  gaming

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Contact

• Media and democracy in the network society
  (MODINET)
• http//www.hum.ku.dk/modinet/
• New project
• auDIo Digital sound cultures
• kbj_at_hum.ku.dk