Headset culture, audile technique, and sound space as private. Understanding the historical meaning of the mp3 format entails rethinking the place of. Jonathan sterne teaches in the department of art history and communication studies, and the history and philosophy of science program at mcgill university. He writes about media, technology, and the politics of culture, and is. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and the transmission devices so. It questions the very limits of what counts as sound and not sound. The meaning of a format recounts the hundredyear history of the worlds most common format for recorded audio. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the audible past.
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