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Automobility and the power of sound
This article analyses the connections between forms of solitary automobile habitation and the use of mobile sound technologies in automobiles: the radio, cassette, sound system and mobile phone. It does this through an empirically informed analysis of automobile use. In doing so it re-evaluates our understanding of the occupation of space and place, arguing that traditional concepts of urban space have underestimated the active role that the users of these communication technologies might have in transforming the meaning of these spaces as they pass through them. The article points to the powerful, and potentially problematic, role that sound technologies play in the daily experience of moving through the city.
History
Publication status
- Published
Journal
Theory, Culture and SocietyISSN
0263-2764Publisher
SAGE PublicationsPublisher URL
External DOI
Issue
4-5Volume
21Page range
243-259Pages
17.0Department affiliated with
- Media and Film Publications
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- No
Peer reviewed?
- Yes