Listening Publics - Kate Lacey

Listening Publics
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Autor: Kate Lacey

 Wydawnictwo: Polity Press
ISBN: 9780745660257
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Oprawa: miękka
Stron: 248
Data wydania: 2013-04-01
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In focusing on the practices, politics and ethics of listening, this wide-ranging book offers an important new perspective on questions of media audiences, publics and citizenship. Listening is central to modern communication, politics and experience, but is commonly overlooked and underestimated in a culture fascinated by the spectacle and the politics of voice. Listening Publics restores listening to media history and to theories of the public sphere. In so doing it opens up profound questions for our understanding of mediated experience, public participation and civic engagement. Taking a cross-national and interdisciplinary approach, the book explores how listening publics have been constituted in relation to successive media technologies from the invention of writing to the digital age. It asks how new practices of listening associated with sound and audiovisual media transform a public world forged in the age of print. Through detailed histories and sophisticated theoretical analysis, Listening Publics demonstrates the embodied and critical activity of listening to be a rich concept with which to rethink the practices, politics and ethics of media communication. "A collection of thoughtful, interesting and finely nuanced analyses of listening practices in the media age." H-Soz-u-Kult "Kate Lacey's timely and thoughtful history of listening, a topic so long submerged within accounts of mdoern broadcasting, offers a welcome challenge to existing theories of the public sphere. Her account of our practices of listening *out* is an important new reference-point for an age of heightened sensory complexity." Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths, University of London "Kate Lacey is a leading historian of radio who has now turned her attention to listening. A long-neglected aspect of the experience of broadcasting is brought to life in this engaging, thoughtful study of listening as a communicative right and responsibility. An invaluable addition to our understanding of how broadcasting works for its audiences." Paddy Scannell, University of Michigan "At once subtle and stunning, Kate Lacey's exploration of the history and concept of listening as a distinct cultural practice adds immeasurably to both the field of sound studies and our understanding of the role played by mediated communication in modern history. This careful delineation of aural practices shows how central the act of listening has been in the formation of social structures and ways of understanding the world around us." Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin-Madison "A sparkling synthesis of broadcast history and social theory that is full of original insights and nuggets from primary research, Listening Publics unfolds the neglected politics and ethics of the ear. A marvelously sane plea for listening as a key mode of participation in the public sphere." John D. Peters, University of Iowa

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Kate Lacey