Sonic Skills
It is common for us today to associate the practice of science primarily with the act of seeing—with staring at computer screens, analyzing graphs, and presenting images. We may notice that physicians use stethoscopes to listen for disease, that biologists tune into sound recordings to understand bi...
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Springer Nature
2021
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| Rochtain ar líne: | 1007336 |
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Níl clibeanna ann, Bí ar an gcéad duine le clib a chur leis an taifead seo!
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| author | Bijsterveld, Karin |
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| description | It is common for us today to associate the practice of science primarily with the act of seeing—with staring at computer screens, analyzing graphs, and presenting images. We may notice that physicians use stethoscopes to listen for disease, that biologists tune into sound recordings to understand birds, or that engineers have created Geiger tellers warning us for radiation through sound. But in the sciences overall, we think, seeing is believing. This open access book explains why, indeed, listening for knowledge plays an ambiguous, if fascinating, role in the sciences. For what purposes have scientists, engineers and physicians listened to the objects of their interest? How did they listen exactly? And why has listening often been contested as a legitimate form of access to scientific knowledge? This concise monograph combines historical and ethnographic evidence about the practices of listening on shop floors, in laboratories, field stations, hospitals, and conference halls, between the 1920s and today. It shows how scientists have used sonic skills—skills required for making, recording, storing, retrieving, and listening to sound—in ensembles: sets of instruments and techniques for particular situations of knowledge making. Yet rather than pleading for the emancipation of hearing at the expense of seeing, this essay investigates when, how, and under which conditions the ear has contributed to science dynamics, either in tandem with or without the eye. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-371082025-03-22T16:56:13Z Sonic Skills Bijsterveld, Karin Engineering Acoustical engineering Technology—History thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TT Other technologies and applied sciences::TTA Acoustic and sound engineering It is common for us today to associate the practice of science primarily with the act of seeing—with staring at computer screens, analyzing graphs, and presenting images. We may notice that physicians use stethoscopes to listen for disease, that biologists tune into sound recordings to understand birds, or that engineers have created Geiger tellers warning us for radiation through sound. But in the sciences overall, we think, seeing is believing. This open access book explains why, indeed, listening for knowledge plays an ambiguous, if fascinating, role in the sciences. For what purposes have scientists, engineers and physicians listened to the objects of their interest? How did they listen exactly? And why has listening often been contested as a legitimate form of access to scientific knowledge? This concise monograph combines historical and ethnographic evidence about the practices of listening on shop floors, in laboratories, field stations, hospitals, and conference halls, between the 1920s and today. It shows how scientists have used sonic skills—skills required for making, recording, storing, retrieving, and listening to sound—in ensembles: sets of instruments and techniques for particular situations of knowledge making. Yet rather than pleading for the emancipation of hearing at the expense of seeing, this essay investigates when, how, and under which conditions the ear has contributed to science dynamics, either in tandem with or without the eye. 2021-02-10T14:42:16Z 2021-02-10T14:42:16Z 2020-03-18 13:36:15 2020-04-01T08:53:03Z 2019 book 1007336 1007336 OCN: 1056175737 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22826 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37108 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22826/1/1007336.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22826/1/1007336.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22826/1/1007336.pdf Springer Nature 10.1057/978-1-137-59829-5 10.1057/978-1-137-59829-5 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Dutch Research Council (NWO) 174 London open access |
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