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Books by Mack Hagood

Duke University Press, 2019

Introductory chapter to Hush by Mack Hagood. For almost sixty years, media technologies have prom... more Introductory chapter to Hush by Mack Hagood. 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.

Media devices that allow individuals to customize and control their sonic environments are prolif... more Media devices that allow individuals to customize and control their sonic environments are proliferating. Generating billions of dollars in revenue, these technologies include noise-canceling headphones, white noise machines, smartphone apps designed to make a noisy office or bedroom sound like the seashore or a rainy country field, hearing aids with wind-chime settings to mask the sound of tinnitus, and new in-ear smart devices ("hearables") that filter and alter the sounds of the world. Until now, neither consumers nor scholars have considered the use of these disparate devices as a singular and prevalent form of media practice—one with important implications for how we experience ourselves, one another, and the world. While the human experience of sound, space, self, and sociality has always been an emergent and technological process, today's sonic new media practices are profoundly altering this emergence. Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control deploys archival and ethnographic research to explore technological practices of sonic remediation from Greek myth to the digital future. These media technologies do not tell stories, entertain, or inform—instead, they offer a mode of self-control through sound control. Just as Orpheus heroically drowned the Sirens' fatal, mind-captivating voices in sound waves of his own, singing and playing his lyre to create a space of safe passage for the Argonauts, orphic media such as noise-canceling headphones help users manage and protect their own subjectivities in changeable, stressful, and distracting environments.

Papers by Mack Hagood

Critical Thinking and Signature Pedagogies

Teaching as if Learning Matters

In recent times, most arguments put forward in support of a gendered approach to peacemaking and ... more In recent times, most arguments put forward in support of a gendered approach to peacemaking and peacebuilding from diverse set of scholars from a variety of disciplines, are instrumental in their approaches. African peace scholars and actors tend to perceive and portray women as instrumental in bringing about sustainable peace, and focusing narrowly on what women can do for peace neglecting the issue of what peace can do for women. The range of peace activities within the overall gendered approach, even a purported genuine approach as understood by the United Nations and other national and International peace community actors often fail to build a sustainable peace as it does not adequately address the fundamental socio-political and economic inequalities created by the global neoliberal structure which also perpetuate violence and conflict. Oftentimes, African women are defined through the lens of their motherly and caregivers' roles while providing the link between these roles and their peace attributes. Despite the fact that these notions are true, the challenge remains in the ways those positive attributes are used as tools to undermine the multifarious involvement of women in peace process. This paper will examine some of the long-standing instrumentalist approaches to African women's involvement in Peacemaking and Peacebuilding processes by discussing extant literatures and also focus on some case studies within African continent. The ways some of these approaches have essentialised women's roles in the society and the challenges arisen therefrom will also be discussed.

In Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (2006), this otological lesson is delivered to protagonist Th... more In Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (2006), this otological lesson is delivered to protagonist Theo Faron (Clive Owen) after his narrow escape from a coffee shop bombing. The speaker is Theo’s ex-wife Julian (Julianne Moore), the leader of an underground militia group. The audio-visual perspective is Theo’s. Julian stands in an abandoned rail station with a high, vaulted ceiling, addressing the camera/Theo as her men drag him away. As Julian recedes from view, her voice recedes into its own reflections in the empty, reverberant space—its attenuation only amplifying her prediction of oncoming hearing loss.

Disability and Biomediation

Disability Media Studies

The medical mediation of bodily differences can be fraught, and many scholars have shown how the ... more The medical mediation of bodily differences can be fraught, and many scholars have shown how the combination of media and medicine can produce disablement according to biopolitical norms. Mack Hagood proposes a framework for the study of biomediation that disentangles medical uses of media technologies from the medical model of disability. Using tinnitus as his case study, he demonstrates the value of this framework for understanding the complex role of media in both biological and political struggles over disability and disabled identities.

Everything is Connected": Networked Conspirituality in New Age Media

AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research

Conspirituality refers to the confluence of New Age spirituality and conspiracism that frame real... more Conspirituality refers to the confluence of New Age spirituality and conspiracism that frame reality through holistic thinking—connecting events and energies, the inner self to the outer world in unseen ways. Conspirituality has thrived online: between the pleasure of the weekly horoscope and the obsession with the QAnon drop is a mode of causal promiscuity in which, as Q puts it, “future proves past.” This panel traces forms of conspirituality from MAGA mystics to New Age influencers, from technolibertarian imageboards to Silicon Valley vision quests. While conspirituality marks an online psychographic segmentation, it also traces a formal quality that organizes ways of navigating, knowing, and critiquing the internet, which is undergirded by New Age spirituality’s perennialism: a belief that different spiritual traditions are equally valid, because they all essentially worship the same divine source that emanates throughout the cosmos and the human body. The internet supercharges ...

In this paper, I examine the liminal states of Taiwanese guitarist/composer Huang Wanting , parti... more In this paper, I examine the liminal states of Taiwanese guitarist/composer Huang Wanting , particularly as these states articulate with similar liminal states of "indie music" and the island of Taiwan. I use the term 'liminal' in a non-ritual sense to refer to a structural position on the interstices of recognized roles and identities. In addition, I propose a second type of liminality: a position of choice assumed by subjects for some advantage-in Wan-ting's case, artistic. As an indie musician, Wanting attempts to maintain a position on the edge of the music mainstream, bringing new sounds into popular music. While she has tried to find a Taiwanese political identity through her song lyrics, Wanting does not consider herself to be a "Taiwanese musician" and creates music for a transnational indie audience. Wanting claims her music is more popular with foreigners than Taiwanese. Like an independent Taiwanese state, her career may need foreign recognition to exist.

In this paper, I examine the liminal states of Taiwanese guitarist/composer Huang Wanting , parti... more In this paper, I examine the liminal states of Taiwanese guitarist/composer Huang Wanting , particularly as these states articulate with similar liminal states of "indie music" and the island of Taiwan. I use the term 'liminal' in a non-ritual sense to refer to a structural position on the interstices of recognized roles and identities. In addition, I propose a second type of liminality: a position of choice assumed by subjects for some advantage-in Wan-ting's case, artistic. As an indie musician, Wanting attempts to maintain a position on the edge of the music mainstream, bringing new sounds into popular music. While she has tried to find a Taiwanese political identity through her song lyrics, Wanting does not consider herself to be a "Taiwanese musician" and creates music for a transnational indie audience. Wanting claims her music is more popular with foreigners than Taiwanese. Like an independent Taiwanese state, her career may need foreign recognition to exist.

A Resonant Tome

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 09502386 2013 860999, Jan 6, 2015

Disability Media Studies, 2017

The medical mediation of bodily differences can be fraught, and many scholars have shown how the ... more The medical mediation of bodily differences can be fraught, and many scholars have shown how the combination of media and medicine can produce disablement according to biopolitical norms. Mack Hagood proposes a framework for the study of biomediation that disentangles medical uses of media technologies from the medical model of disability. Using tinnitus as his case study, he demonstrates the value of this framework for understanding the complex role of media in both biological and political struggles over disability and disabled identities.

The Real Problem is Not Misinformation

As progressives, journalists, and media scholars attempt to account for the role of media in the ... more As progressives, journalists, and media scholars attempt to account for the role of media in the Trump victory, opinions have coalesced around one culprit: misinformation. The quick consensus around the online misinformation theory suggests a lingering and dangerous mismatch between our conceptions of new media users as political subjects and the reality. To understand what ails our digitally mediated democracy we will need to embrace an affective conception of political subjects and their media use.

Did Crowd Mics Amp Up Democratic National Convention Drama?

On television, the first night of the 2016 Democratic National Convention was severely disrupted ... more On television, the first night of the 2016 Democratic National Convention was severely disrupted by booing Bernie Sanders supporters--yet many reporters on the floor of the convention claimed the booing was not so loud or widespread on-site. This discrepancy has much to do with sonic changes in the technological medium of television over the past half century, as mundane aspects of audio production such as microphones and audio compressors interact with politics in unpredictable ways. Critically analyzing these interactions is an important skill for all citizens in our mediated democracy to develop.

The study of sound is largely absent from scholarship on sport in general and sport fandom in par... more The study of sound is largely absent from scholarship on sport in general and sport fandom in particular. Sound, however, plays a crucial role in the cultivation, maintenance, and performance of sports fandom. Using Seattle's 12th Man and the discourses surrounding it, this essay examines the relationship between sound, space, and fandom in the contemporary National Football League. We consider how fans' sonic labor is constitutive of their place within a fan community; the relationship between sound and fandom's spatial and affective dimensions; and how contemporary sport and media organizations capitalize on fans' production of sound and the embodied experience and communal identity it fashions. By investigating the 12th Man's sonic relations to fandom, space, games, and television, we demonstrate how the league has shifted from regulating fan noise as an interruption to cultivating it as a communicative resource that adds value to games.

By charting the form and history of the tinnitus effect, we can begin to examine why a mixture of... more By charting the form and history of the tinnitus effect, we can begin to examine why a mixture of piercing and muffled sound has lately become so useful and salient in narrative film, a question that gives entry to broader issues of cinematic subjectivity and its cultural-historical context. It may be that cinematic tinnitus successfully sonifies contemporary feelings of loss and unease around politics and selfhood.

Touching Sound, Touching Image

Of course, film sound has a copious and illustrious literature that I have taken great pleasure i... more Of course, film sound has a copious and illustrious literature that I have taken great pleasure in studying and to which I hope to have done justice. Yet every article leaves some work undone and in the case of “Unpacking a Punch,” I wish I had done similar justice to the less-copious but equally intriguing literature on touch in film—especially Lisa Marks’ work on haptics and material connectedness in cinema. So, with this in mind, I’d like to use these afterthoughts to compare and contrast my discussion of visceral sound with Marks’ innovative work on haptic image. http://www.cmstudies.org/?CJ_after534_hagood

This article unpacks the production and impact of the Foley punch in David Fincher’s Fight Club (... more This article unpacks the production and impact of the Foley punch in David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999) to theorize the sonic transmission of affect in cinema. It advocates transduction as a model for a soundtrack analysis that acknowledges the already-mediated nature of aural subjectivity and allows for authenticity in electronically mediated experiences.

Duke University Press, 2019

Introductory chapter to Hush by Mack Hagood. For almost sixty years, media technologies have prom... more Introductory chapter to Hush by Mack Hagood. 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.

Media devices that allow individuals to customize and control their sonic environments are prolif... more Media devices that allow individuals to customize and control their sonic environments are proliferating. Generating billions of dollars in revenue, these technologies include noise-canceling headphones, white noise machines, smartphone apps designed to make a noisy office or bedroom sound like the seashore or a rainy country field, hearing aids with wind-chime settings to mask the sound of tinnitus, and new in-ear smart devices ("hearables") that filter and alter the sounds of the world. Until now, neither consumers nor scholars have considered the use of these disparate devices as a singular and prevalent form of media practice—one with important implications for how we experience ourselves, one another, and the world. While the human experience of sound, space, self, and sociality has always been an emergent and technological process, today's sonic new media practices are profoundly altering this emergence. Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control deploys archival and ethnographic research to explore technological practices of sonic remediation from Greek myth to the digital future. These media technologies do not tell stories, entertain, or inform—instead, they offer a mode of self-control through sound control. Just as Orpheus heroically drowned the Sirens' fatal, mind-captivating voices in sound waves of his own, singing and playing his lyre to create a space of safe passage for the Argonauts, orphic media such as noise-canceling headphones help users manage and protect their own subjectivities in changeable, stressful, and distracting environments.

Critical Thinking and Signature Pedagogies

Teaching as if Learning Matters

In recent times, most arguments put forward in support of a gendered approach to peacemaking and ... more In recent times, most arguments put forward in support of a gendered approach to peacemaking and peacebuilding from diverse set of scholars from a variety of disciplines, are instrumental in their approaches. African peace scholars and actors tend to perceive and portray women as instrumental in bringing about sustainable peace, and focusing narrowly on what women can do for peace neglecting the issue of what peace can do for women. The range of peace activities within the overall gendered approach, even a purported genuine approach as understood by the United Nations and other national and International peace community actors often fail to build a sustainable peace as it does not adequately address the fundamental socio-political and economic inequalities created by the global neoliberal structure which also perpetuate violence and conflict. Oftentimes, African women are defined through the lens of their motherly and caregivers' roles while providing the link between these roles and their peace attributes. Despite the fact that these notions are true, the challenge remains in the ways those positive attributes are used as tools to undermine the multifarious involvement of women in peace process. This paper will examine some of the long-standing instrumentalist approaches to African women's involvement in Peacemaking and Peacebuilding processes by discussing extant literatures and also focus on some case studies within African continent. The ways some of these approaches have essentialised women's roles in the society and the challenges arisen therefrom will also be discussed.

In Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (2006), this otological lesson is delivered to protagonist Th... more In Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (2006), this otological lesson is delivered to protagonist Theo Faron (Clive Owen) after his narrow escape from a coffee shop bombing. The speaker is Theo’s ex-wife Julian (Julianne Moore), the leader of an underground militia group. The audio-visual perspective is Theo’s. Julian stands in an abandoned rail station with a high, vaulted ceiling, addressing the camera/Theo as her men drag him away. As Julian recedes from view, her voice recedes into its own reflections in the empty, reverberant space—its attenuation only amplifying her prediction of oncoming hearing loss.

Disability and Biomediation

Disability Media Studies

The medical mediation of bodily differences can be fraught, and many scholars have shown how the ... more The medical mediation of bodily differences can be fraught, and many scholars have shown how the combination of media and medicine can produce disablement according to biopolitical norms. Mack Hagood proposes a framework for the study of biomediation that disentangles medical uses of media technologies from the medical model of disability. Using tinnitus as his case study, he demonstrates the value of this framework for understanding the complex role of media in both biological and political struggles over disability and disabled identities.

Everything is Connected": Networked Conspirituality in New Age Media

AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research

Conspirituality refers to the confluence of New Age spirituality and conspiracism that frame real... more Conspirituality refers to the confluence of New Age spirituality and conspiracism that frame reality through holistic thinking—connecting events and energies, the inner self to the outer world in unseen ways. Conspirituality has thrived online: between the pleasure of the weekly horoscope and the obsession with the QAnon drop is a mode of causal promiscuity in which, as Q puts it, “future proves past.” This panel traces forms of conspirituality from MAGA mystics to New Age influencers, from technolibertarian imageboards to Silicon Valley vision quests. While conspirituality marks an online psychographic segmentation, it also traces a formal quality that organizes ways of navigating, knowing, and critiquing the internet, which is undergirded by New Age spirituality’s perennialism: a belief that different spiritual traditions are equally valid, because they all essentially worship the same divine source that emanates throughout the cosmos and the human body. The internet supercharges ...

In this paper, I examine the liminal states of Taiwanese guitarist/composer Huang Wanting , parti... more In this paper, I examine the liminal states of Taiwanese guitarist/composer Huang Wanting , particularly as these states articulate with similar liminal states of "indie music" and the island of Taiwan. I use the term 'liminal' in a non-ritual sense to refer to a structural position on the interstices of recognized roles and identities. In addition, I propose a second type of liminality: a position of choice assumed by subjects for some advantage-in Wan-ting's case, artistic. As an indie musician, Wanting attempts to maintain a position on the edge of the music mainstream, bringing new sounds into popular music. While she has tried to find a Taiwanese political identity through her song lyrics, Wanting does not consider herself to be a "Taiwanese musician" and creates music for a transnational indie audience. Wanting claims her music is more popular with foreigners than Taiwanese. Like an independent Taiwanese state, her career may need foreign recognition to exist.

In this paper, I examine the liminal states of Taiwanese guitarist/composer Huang Wanting , parti... more In this paper, I examine the liminal states of Taiwanese guitarist/composer Huang Wanting , particularly as these states articulate with similar liminal states of "indie music" and the island of Taiwan. I use the term 'liminal' in a non-ritual sense to refer to a structural position on the interstices of recognized roles and identities. In addition, I propose a second type of liminality: a position of choice assumed by subjects for some advantage-in Wan-ting's case, artistic. As an indie musician, Wanting attempts to maintain a position on the edge of the music mainstream, bringing new sounds into popular music. While she has tried to find a Taiwanese political identity through her song lyrics, Wanting does not consider herself to be a "Taiwanese musician" and creates music for a transnational indie audience. Wanting claims her music is more popular with foreigners than Taiwanese. Like an independent Taiwanese state, her career may need foreign recognition to exist.

A Resonant Tome

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 09502386 2013 860999, Jan 6, 2015

Disability Media Studies, 2017

The medical mediation of bodily differences can be fraught, and many scholars have shown how the ... more The medical mediation of bodily differences can be fraught, and many scholars have shown how the combination of media and medicine can produce disablement according to biopolitical norms. Mack Hagood proposes a framework for the study of biomediation that disentangles medical uses of media technologies from the medical model of disability. Using tinnitus as his case study, he demonstrates the value of this framework for understanding the complex role of media in both biological and political struggles over disability and disabled identities.

The Real Problem is Not Misinformation

As progressives, journalists, and media scholars attempt to account for the role of media in the ... more As progressives, journalists, and media scholars attempt to account for the role of media in the Trump victory, opinions have coalesced around one culprit: misinformation. The quick consensus around the online misinformation theory suggests a lingering and dangerous mismatch between our conceptions of new media users as political subjects and the reality. To understand what ails our digitally mediated democracy we will need to embrace an affective conception of political subjects and their media use.

Did Crowd Mics Amp Up Democratic National Convention Drama?

On television, the first night of the 2016 Democratic National Convention was severely disrupted ... more On television, the first night of the 2016 Democratic National Convention was severely disrupted by booing Bernie Sanders supporters--yet many reporters on the floor of the convention claimed the booing was not so loud or widespread on-site. This discrepancy has much to do with sonic changes in the technological medium of television over the past half century, as mundane aspects of audio production such as microphones and audio compressors interact with politics in unpredictable ways. Critically analyzing these interactions is an important skill for all citizens in our mediated democracy to develop.

The study of sound is largely absent from scholarship on sport in general and sport fandom in par... more The study of sound is largely absent from scholarship on sport in general and sport fandom in particular. Sound, however, plays a crucial role in the cultivation, maintenance, and performance of sports fandom. Using Seattle's 12th Man and the discourses surrounding it, this essay examines the relationship between sound, space, and fandom in the contemporary National Football League. We consider how fans' sonic labor is constitutive of their place within a fan community; the relationship between sound and fandom's spatial and affective dimensions; and how contemporary sport and media organizations capitalize on fans' production of sound and the embodied experience and communal identity it fashions. By investigating the 12th Man's sonic relations to fandom, space, games, and television, we demonstrate how the league has shifted from regulating fan noise as an interruption to cultivating it as a communicative resource that adds value to games.

By charting the form and history of the tinnitus effect, we can begin to examine why a mixture of... more By charting the form and history of the tinnitus effect, we can begin to examine why a mixture of piercing and muffled sound has lately become so useful and salient in narrative film, a question that gives entry to broader issues of cinematic subjectivity and its cultural-historical context. It may be that cinematic tinnitus successfully sonifies contemporary feelings of loss and unease around politics and selfhood.

Touching Sound, Touching Image

Of course, film sound has a copious and illustrious literature that I have taken great pleasure i... more Of course, film sound has a copious and illustrious literature that I have taken great pleasure in studying and to which I hope to have done justice. Yet every article leaves some work undone and in the case of “Unpacking a Punch,” I wish I had done similar justice to the less-copious but equally intriguing literature on touch in film—especially Lisa Marks’ work on haptics and material connectedness in cinema. So, with this in mind, I’d like to use these afterthoughts to compare and contrast my discussion of visceral sound with Marks’ innovative work on haptic image. http://www.cmstudies.org/?CJ_after534_hagood

This article unpacks the production and impact of the Foley punch in David Fincher’s Fight Club (... more This article unpacks the production and impact of the Foley punch in David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999) to theorize the sonic transmission of affect in cinema. It advocates transduction as a model for a soundtrack analysis that acknowledges the already-mediated nature of aural subjectivity and allows for authenticity in electronically mediated experiences.

Sounding Out!, Jul 16, 2012

Editor's Note: Welcome to the third installment in our month-long exploration of listening in obs... more Editor's Note: Welcome to the third installment in our month-long exploration of listening in observation of World Listening Day on July 18, 2012. For the full introduction to the series click here. To peep the previous posts, click here. Otherwise, prepare yourself to listen carefully as Mack Hagood contemplates how sound studies scholars can help tinnitus sufferers (and vice versa). -JSA One January morning in 2006, Joel Styzens woke up and life sounded different.

In this paper, I examine the liminal states of Taiwanese guitarist/composer Huang Wan-ting, parti... more In this paper, I examine the liminal states of Taiwanese guitarist/composer Huang Wan-ting, particularly as these states articulate with similar liminal states of "indie music" and the island of Taiwan. I use the term 'liminal' in a non-ritual sense to refer to a structural position on the interstices of recognized roles and identities. In addition, I propose a second type of liminality: a position of choice assumed by subjects for some advantage-in Wan-ting's case, artistic. As an indie musician, Wan-ting attempts to maintain a position on the edge of the music mainstream, bringing new sounds into popular music. While she has tried to find a Taiwanese political identity through her song lyrics, Wan-ting does not consider herself to be a "Taiwanese musician" and creates music for a transnational indie audience. Wan-ting claims her music is more popular with foreigners than Taiwanese. Like an independent Taiwanese state, her career may need foreign recognition to exist.

Review of Stance: Ideas about Emotion, Style, and Meaning for the Study of Expressive Culture

Journal of Folklore Research Reviews

Review of Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century

Journal of Folklore Research Reviews

Phantom Power Podcast Ep. 2: City of Voices (Shannon Mattern)

This episode we have a single longform interview with a media scholar of note–The New School’s Sh... more This episode we have a single longform interview with a media scholar of note–The New School’s Shannon Mattern. We have teamed up with Mediapolis, a journal that places urban studies and media studies into conversation with one another, to interview Mattern about her new book, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media (U of Minnesota Press: 2018).

And lucky for us on Phantom Power, a large portion of Mattern’s story is about sound, from the echoes of ancient caves to Roman amphitheaters to telephone wires and radio towers—she shows us how sonic infrastructures allow us to communicate and form communities, cultivating forms of intelligence that are embodied and affective, as well as informatic. Before there was the smart city, there was the sonic city—and the sonic city isn’t going anywhere soon.

Some topics discussed: Patrick Feaster and First Sounds; Neil Postman; Harold Innis; Marshall McLuhan; John Durham Peters’ The Marvelous Clouds; Carolyn Birdsall’s Nazi Soundscapes.

Annenberg 3620 Podcast: Specters of Silence

This edition of the Annenberg School's 3620 Podcast includes an interview with me on my tinnitus ... more This edition of the Annenberg School's 3620 Podcast includes an interview with me on my tinnitus research.

I-69 Sounds and Stories

This is a three-part documentary radio series created for WFHB by my students in a class at India... more This is a three-part documentary radio series created for WFHB by my students in a class at Indiana University's Department of Communication and Culture. In Audio Production as Service: Sounds and Stories in the Path of I-69, students broke into ethnographic research teams to interview rural residents and record natural sounds in the proposed pathway of a controversial interstate extension. The students investigated how I-69 will impact life stories and soundscapes in southwestern Indiana.