From the iPod to the Smartphone: Navigating the Spaces of the City

The Apple iPod and before that the Sony Walkman are inherently technologies of sonic control; the placing of headphones around the ears permits a dramatic reorganization of the user’s soundworld, in effect empowering the ears of the user. Technology thus transforms the power of the senses.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Michael Bull
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: professionaldreamers 2013-06-01
Series:lo Squaderno
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Online Access:http://www.losquaderno.professionaldreamers.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/losquaderno28.pdf#page=13