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  • Sonic Skills

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

    de Karin Bijsterveld ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Uncontrollability of the World

    de Hartmut Rosa ...
    Traducido por James C. Wagner ...
    The driving cultural force of that form of life we call ‘modern’ is the desire to make the world controllable. Yet it is only in encountering the uncontrollable that we really experience the world – only then do we feel touched, moved and alive. A world that is fully known, in which everything has been planned and mastered, would be a dead world.Our lives are played out on the border between what ... Leer más

    $18.00 USD

  • Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?

    Experiencing Aural Architecture

    de Barry Blesser, Linda-Ruth Salter ...
    How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater.We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening. We can navigate a room in the dark, and "hear" the emptiness of a house without furniture. Our experience of music in a concert hall depends on whether we sit in the front row or under ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • MP3

    The Meaning of a Format

    de Jonathan Sterne ...
    Series series Sign, Storage, Transmission
    MP3: The Meaning of a Format recounts the hundred-year history of the world's most common format for recorded audio. Understanding the historical meaning of the MP3 format entails rethinking the place of digital technologies in the larger universe of twentieth-century communication history, from hearing research conducted by the telephone industry in the 1910s, through the mid-century development ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Uses of Technology in Lower Secondary Mathematics Education

    A Concise Topical Survey

    de Paul Drijvers, Lynda Ball, Bärbel Barzel, M. Kathleen Heid, Yiming Cao, Michela Maschietto ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This topical survey provides an overview of the current state of the art in technology use in mathematics education, including both practice-oriented experiences and research-based evidence, as seen from an international perspective. Three core themes are discussed: Evidence of effectiveness; Digital assessment; and Communication and collaboration.The survey’s final section offers suggestions for ... Leer más

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  • Sonic Warfare

    Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear

    de Steve Goodman ...
    Series series Technologies of Lived Abstraction
    An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality—when sound helps produce a bad vibe.Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread—to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the “psychoacoustic correction” aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Discourse in Action

    Introducing Mediated Discourse Analysis

    de Rodney H Jones, Sigrid Norris ...
    From emails relating to adoption over the Internet to discussions in the airline cockpit, the spoken or written texts we produce can have significant social consequences. The area of Mediated Discourse Analysis considers texts in their social and cultural contexts to explore the actions individuals take with texts - and the consequences of those actions.Discourse in Action:brings together leading ... Leer más

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  • Archaeologies of Touch

    Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing

    de David Parisi ...
    A material history of haptics technology that raises new questions about the relationship between touch and mediaSince the rise of radio and television, we have lived in an era defined increasingly by the electronic circulation of images and sounds. But the flood of new computing technologies known as haptic interfaces—which use electricity, vibration, and force feedback to stimulate the sense of ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Environments of Intelligence

    From natural information to artificial interaction

    de Hajo Greif ...
    What is the role of the environment, and of the information it provides, in cognition? More specifically, may there be a role for certain artefacts to play in this context? These are questions that motivate "4E" theories of cognition (as being embodied, embedded, extended, enactive). In his take on that family of views, Hajo Greif first defends and refines a concept of information as primarily ... Leer más

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  • Visual Literacy

    Edición de James Elkins ...
    What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? In the West, in Asia, or in developing nations? If we all need to become "visually literate," what does that mean in practical terms? The essays gathered here examine a host of issues surrounding "the visual," exploring national and regional ideas of visuality and charting out new territories of ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Sensing Sound

    Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice

    de Nina Sun Eidsheim ...
    Series series Sign, Storage, Transmission
    In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening. Eidsheim shows how sound, music, and listening are dynamic and contextually dependent, rather than being fixed, knowable, and constant. She uses twenty-first-century operas by Juliana Snapper, Meredith Monk, Christopher Cerrone, and Alba Triana as case ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Diminished Faculties

    A Political Phenomenology of Impairment

    de Jonathan Sterne ...
    In Diminished Faculties Jonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment. Drawing on his personal history with thyroid cancer and a paralyzed vocal cord, Sterne undertakes a political phenomenology of impairment in which experience is understood from the standpoint of a subject that is not fully able to account for itself. He conceives of impairment as a fundamental ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD