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Jentery Sayers deposited Optophonic Reading, Prototyping Optophones in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis article details the contributions of blind readers to the development, design, and marketing of the optophone, a text-to-tone transcription machine introduced in the early twentieth century. We combine archival research with prototyping to investigate the dimensions involved in past coding and decoding practices. If archives provide…[Read more]
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Jentery Sayers deposited Optophonic Reading, Prototyping Optophones in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis article details the contributions of blind readers to the development, design, and marketing of the optophone, a text-to-tone transcription machine introduced in the early twentieth century. We combine archival research with prototyping to investigate the dimensions involved in past coding and decoding practices. If archives provide…[Read more]
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Jentery Sayers deposited Optophonic Reading, Prototyping Optophones in the group
MS Sound on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis article details the contributions of blind readers to the development, design, and marketing of the optophone, a text-to-tone transcription machine introduced in the early twentieth century. We combine archival research with prototyping to investigate the dimensions involved in past coding and decoding practices. If archives provide…[Read more]
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Jentery Sayers deposited Optophonic Reading, Prototyping Optophones in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis article details the contributions of blind readers to the development, design, and marketing of the optophone, a text-to-tone transcription machine introduced in the early twentieth century. We combine archival research with prototyping to investigate the dimensions involved in past coding and decoding practices. If archives provide…[Read more]
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Jentery Sayers deposited Optophonic Reading, Prototyping Optophones in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis article details the contributions of blind readers to the development, design, and marketing of the optophone, a text-to-tone transcription machine introduced in the early twentieth century. We combine archival research with prototyping to investigate the dimensions involved in past coding and decoding practices. If archives provide…[Read more]
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Media research is a vexing enterprise. Trapped in the borderlands between social science and the humanities, the study of media and communication bears the liabilities of both. We have to contend with all the challenges that sociologists and literary scholars face: the subjective baggage of the analyst, her struggle to interpret unstable meanings,…[Read more]
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Jentery Sayers deposited Optophonic Reading, Prototyping Optophones on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago
This article details the contributions of blind readers to the development, design, and marketing of the optophone, a text-to-tone transcription machine introduced in the early twentieth century. We combine archival research with prototyping to investigate the dimensions involved in past coding and decoding practices. If archives provide…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
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Jentery Sayers deposited Studying Media through New Media in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThe Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities is about researching media through new media: for example, playing games to better understand their politics and mechanics, exhibiting new media art to witness how people engage it, building stories to become more familiar with their structures and narratives, making wearable technologies to…[Read more]
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Jentery Sayers deposited Studying Media through New Media in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThe Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities is about researching media through new media: for example, playing games to better understand their politics and mechanics, exhibiting new media art to witness how people engage it, building stories to become more familiar with their structures and narratives, making wearable technologies to…[Read more]
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Jentery Sayers deposited Studying Media through New Media in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThe Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities is about researching media through new media: for example, playing games to better understand their politics and mechanics, exhibiting new media art to witness how people engage it, building stories to become more familiar with their structures and narratives, making wearable technologies to…[Read more]
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Jentery Sayers's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
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Jentery Sayers deposited Studying Media through New Media on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
The Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities is about researching media through new media: for example, playing games to better understand their politics and mechanics, exhibiting new media art to witness how people engage it, building stories to become more familiar with their structures and narratives, making wearable technologies to…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoSounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. Using long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, Patrick Eisenlohr explores how the voice, as a site…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoSounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. Using long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, Patrick Eisenlohr explores how the voice, as a site…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World in the group
Historical Soundscape Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoSounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. Using long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, Patrick Eisenlohr explores how the voice, as a site…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoSounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. Using long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, Patrick Eisenlohr explores how the voice, as a site…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
Sounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. Using long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, Patrick Eisenlohr explores how the voice, as a site…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
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Ilana Gershon deposited Employing the CEO of Me, Inc.: US corporate hiring in a neoliberal age in the group
Labor Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoSocial practices and contingencies always exceed the neoliberal models by which people currently try to contain
the inherent unpredictability of accomplishing social tasks with others, such as getting a job. Contradictions in
neoliberal logics emerge when people try to live according to neoliberal precepts, engaging with other social…[Read more] - Load More