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Sonic Skills : Listening for Knowledge in Science, Medicine and Engineering (1920s-Present).

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bijsterveld, Karin.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1 Listening for Knowledge: Introduction
  • Abstract
  • Acoustic Signatures
  • Sonic Skills
  • Sensory Practices in the Sciences
  • Cases of Sound and Listening
  • Sensory Selectivity
  • References
  • Chapter 2 Sonic Signs: Turning to, Talking About, and Transcribing Sound
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Hazy Sounds: Verbalizations and Descriptions of the Audible
  • Artful Drawings: Musical and Graphic Notation
  • Save the Patient: Survival of Embodied Representation
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 3 Modes of Listening: Why, How and to What?
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Existing Taxonomies of Listening: Analytic and Actors' Categories
  • Purposes of Listening: Why Scientists, Engineers, and Physicians Listen
  • Ways of Listening: How Scientists, Engineers, and Physicians Listen
  • Sonic Skills: Virtuosity in Shifting Modes and Handling Tools
  • The Missing Third Dimension: Listening to What?
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 4 Resounding Contestation: The Ambiguous Status of Sonic Skills
  • Abstract
  • Twittering Timbrados
  • Beyond the Infallible Ear: Repeated Listening and Sensory Calibration
  • At a Glance: Mechanical Visualization and Professional Audition
  • Meter Reading as a Technology of Trust in Expert-Customer Relations
  • There Is More Than Meets the Eye: Struggling with Trained Ears in Sonification
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 5 Popping Up: The Continual Return of Sound and Listening
  • Abstract
  • Hearing Gravitational Waves
  • The Digital: Portable and Versatile Sound Technologies
  • Somatic Vigilance: Attuning to Instruments and Time
  • Auditory Sublime: Promising Wonder and Awe Through Sound
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 6 Ensembles of Sonic Skills: Conclusions
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Timing-And the Relations Between Science and Technology.
  • Trust-And the Relations Between the Sciences and the Professions
  • Accountability-And the Relations Between Science and Society
  • Epilogue
  • References
  • References
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index.

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