Listening publics: the politics and experience of listening in the media age / Kate Lacey

2013 listening is central to modern communication, politics, and experience In focusing on the practices, politics and ethics of listening, this wide-ranging book offers an important new perspective on questions of media audiences, publics and citizenship. Listening is central to modern communication, politics and experience, but is commonly overlooked and underestimated in a culture fascinated by the spectacle and the politics of voice. Listening Publics restores listening to media history and to theories of the public sphere. In so doing it opens up profound questions for our understanding of mediated experience, public participation and civic engagement. Taking a cross-national and interdisciplinary approach, the book explores how listening publics have been constituted in relation to successive media technologies from the invention of writing to the digital age. It asks how new practices of listening associated with sound and audiovisual media transform a public world forged in the age of print. Through detailed histories and sophisticated theoretical analysis, Listening Publics demonstrates the embodied and critical activity of listening to be a rich concept with which to rethink the practices, politics and ethics of media communication. In focusing on the practices, politics and ethics of listening, this wide-ranging book offers an important new perspective on questions of media audiences, publics and citizenship. Listening is central to modern communication, politics and experience, but is commonly overlooked and underestimated in a culture fascinated by the spectacle and the politics of voice.

Listening Publics restores listening to media history and to theories of the public sphere. In so doing it opens up profound questions for our understanding of mediated experience, public participation and civic engagement.

Taking a cross-national and interdisciplinary approach, the book explores how listening publics have been constituted in relation to successive media technologies from the invention of writing to the digital age. It asks how new practices of listening associated with sound and audiovisual media transform a public world forged in the age of print.

Through detailed histories and sophisticated theoretical analysis, Listening Publics demonstrates the embodied and critical activity of listening to be a rich concept with which to rethink the practices, politics and ethics of media communication. "In focusing on the practices, politics and ethics of listening, this wide-ranging book offers an important new perspective on questions of media audiences, publics and citizenship. Listening is central to modern communication, politics and experience, but is commonly overlooked and underestimated in a culture fascinated by the spectacle and the politics of voice. Listening Publics restores listening to media history and to theories of the public sphere. In so doing it opens up profound questions for our understanding of mediated experience, public participation and civic engagement. Taking a cross-national and interdisciplinary approach, the book explores how listening publics have been constituted in relation to successive media technologies from the invention of writing to the digital age. It asks how new practices of listening associated with sound and audiovisual media transform a public world forged in the age of print. Through detailed histories and sophisticated theoretical analysis, Listening Publics demonstrates the embodied and critical activity of listening to be a rich concept with which to rethink the practices, politics and ethics of media communication"--provided by publisher

In focusing on the practices, politics and ethics of listening, this wide-ranging book offers an important new perspective on questions of media audiences, publics and citizenship. Listening is central to modern communication, politics and experience, but is commonly overlooked and underestimated in a culture fascinated by the spectacle and the politics of voice. Listening Publics restores listening to media history and to theories of the public sphere. In so doing it opens up profound questions for our understanding of mediated experience, public participation and civic engagement. Taking a cross-national and interdisciplinary approach, the book explores how listening publics have been constituted in relation to successive media technologies from the invention of writing to the digital age. It asks how new practices of listening associated with sound and audiovisual media transform a public world forged in the age of print. Through detailed histories and sophisticated theoretical analysis, Listening Publics demonstrates the embodied and critical activity of listening to be a rich concept with which to rethink the practices, politics and ethics of media communication.

Focusing On The Practices, Politics And Ethics Of Listening, This Wide-ranging Book Offers An Important New Perspective On Questions Of Media Audiences, Publics And Citizenship. Listening Is Central To Modern Communication, Politics And Experience, But Is Commonly Overlooked And Underestimated In A Culture Fascinated By The Spectacle And The Politics Of Voice. Listening In And Listening Out -- The Modernization Of Listening -- Listening In Good Faith : Recording, Representation And The Real -- Listening Amid The Noise Of Modernity -- Listening Live : The Politics And Experience Of The Radiogenic -- The Privatization Of The Listening Public -- The Politics And Practices Of Collective Listening -- The Public Sphere As Auditorium -- Media And The Ethics Of Listening. Kate Lacey. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 211-230) And Index. Cover 1 Contents 7 Acknowledgements 8 Preface 10 Listening Overlooked 11 1: Listening In and Listening Out 13 2: The Modernization of Listening 32 Listening in the Age of Spectacle 61 3: Listening in Good Faith: Recording, Representation and the Real 63 4: Listening Amid the Noise of Modernity 82 5: Listening Live: The Politics and Experience of the Radiogenic 102 Ways of Listening 121 6: The Privatization of the Listening Public 123 7: The Politics and Practices of Collective Listening 142 Listening in the Public Sphere 167 8: The Public Sphere as Auditorium 169 9: Media and the Ethics of Listening 192 Notes 210 References 221 Index 241