Sound Studies Roundtable

From NPR’s oft-viral Tiny Desk concert series to Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s long-running podcast Mann Ki Baat (Speaking from the Heart), the many ways in which music and sound circulate online play a powerful role in mediating digital experiences on a global scale. Nevertheless, the call remains in the nascent field of digital sound studies to expand beyond the text-centric focus of humanistic communication scholarship in order to more fully acknowledge the deeply sonic experience of being online. This event will answer this call by bringing together in conversation scholars from UPenn and Lehigh University, whose work addresses many of the core questions that foreground the study of communication and digital sound: from the economy and industry of sound; sound as it relates to space, place, and identity; to sound as a tool for political power. Moreover, our discussion will seek to challenge Anglo and Global North-centric perspectives on how we hear the digital that continue to predominate the field of media studies.

This event will be a moderated conversation, with each contributor sharing insights from their research before opening up for discussion with the audience, and we encourage attendees to come prepared to contribute their own insights and questions on these topics.

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