Sound Moves

Michael Bull is Reader in Media and Film Studies at the University of Sussex.

• 1. Sound Moves, iPod Culture and Urban Experience: An Introduction 2. Sound Epistemologies: Strategies and Technologies 3. Sounding Out Cosmopolitanism: iPod Culture and Regognition 4. The Audio-Visual iPod: Aesthetics and the City 5. Interpersonal Sound Strategies and iPod Culture 6. Mobilization of the Social: Mobile Phones and iPods 7. Contextualizing the Senses: The Auditory World of Automobility 8. The Auditory Privatisation of the Workplace 9. Bergson's iPod?: The Cognitive Management of Everyday Life 10. The Nostalgia of iPod Culture 11. Sound Timings and iPod Culture 12. Endnote: Sound Mediations

"It will be of use to any student of the way consumer techonologies colonise our everyday lives." Rob Clowes"Bull's meditation on the iPod has many merits" Rob ClowesMichael Bull, aka Professor iPod or Dr. iPod, is a professor in media and film at England's University of Sussex who studies the cultural impact of digital music devices. He has spent the last three years interviewing more than 1,000 iPod owners in the United States and abroad for his new book - Wired NewsLecturer Dr. Michael Bull is "the world's leading -- perhaps only -- expert on the social impact of personal stereo devices," The New York Times. "Bull (Univ. of Sussex, UK)--aka Professor iPod (per Wired magazine)--presents a sociological, scholarly view of the culture shifts resulting from the iPod...Recommended."-- N.J. Johnson, Metropolitan State University, Choice