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Hush - Media and Sonic Self-Control (Paperback)
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Hush - Media and Sonic Self-Control (Paperback)
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For almost sixty years, media technologies have promised users the
ability to create sonic safe spaces for themselves-from bedside
white noise machines to Beats by Dre's "Hear What You Want" ad
campaign, in which Colin Kaepernick's headphones protect him from
taunting crowds. In Hush, Mack Hagood draws evidence from
noise-canceling headphones, tinnitus maskers, LPs that play ocean
sounds, nature-sound mobile apps, and in-ear smart technologies to
argue the true purpose of media is not information transmission,
but rather the control of how we engage our environment. These
devices, which Hagood calls orphic media, give users the freedom to
remain unaffected in the changeable and distracting spaces of
contemporary capitalism and reveal how racial, gendered, ableist,
and class ideologies shape our desire to block unwanted sounds. In
a noisy world of haters, trolls, and information overload, guarded
listening can be a necessity for self-care, but Hagood argues our
efforts to shield ourselves can also decrease our tolerance for
sonic and social difference. Challenging our self-defeating
attempts to be free of one another, he rethinks media theory, sound
studies, and the very definition of media.
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