lo Squaderno (Jun 2013)

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

  • Michael Bull

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 28
pp. 13 – 16

Abstract

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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.

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