A cultural history of the talking machines Despite its important role for social life, sound as event per se isn't much problematize in the field of social science. But yet we practically float in an universe of different sounds, meaning events produced by pressures on the air – it can be defined as the raw phenomenon – that we then interpret as a rumor more or less defined or signals of articulated and pregnant sense. The book La voce artificiale. Un’indagine media-archeologica sul computer parlante (The artificial voice. A media-archaeological investigation on …
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Around digital marketing responsability
In internet everybody knows you can be a dog Time has gone, socially and technologically speaking, since comics on New Yorker (1993) drowed by Peter Steiner cleverly summarized both powerness and riskies about online interactions, so becoming a meme on internet anonymity condition. The phrase “on internet nobody knows you’re a dog” referred to its colleague could be understood at least in a double meaning. From one side, as a relational and democratic liberation from material considerations such as class, genre, body apparency, age… and, here, also of species, an …
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The intermediations of design
From Lollipop to the enchanted objects Although resulting quite elusive and so equally fascinating, having to deal with design as topic became a “must” even for people interested in communication technology since the iPhone has been launched in 2007. Meantime, centrifugal explosion of digital media in people's social and personal life, alongside with multiple use of digital interfaces, puts design at the centre of industries as mode to differentiate products and satisfy users' needs and desires. On the other hand, while our body-mind goes through digital portals for …
The voice as transit in a very, but very human post-human
Reflections on the deep "high-tech" connaturality of our vocal medium in the age of speaking avatars The end of a translation work inevitably leaves echo of faced topic, especially if we have dealt with our ancestral medium. Indeed, publishing of Italian version of Steven Connor’s Dumbstruck operates as an irresistible invite to begin some reflections stimulated by an opera that is unique to understand human voice as process and product of a body living in close interaction with its cultural and social environments, sprouting a sonorous phenomenon at same time …
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iPhone: logic and aesthetics of a multimedia telephone
Introduction American company Apple, producer of computers and personal devices – among others, the famous mp3-player iPod – has entered into mobile business with a video cell phone that has been presented and hailed worldwide with a great emphasis. In this paper we’ll take iPhone as a fresh case study to update some paths used to study video cell phone (Borrelli, Petullà 2007). It is a phenomenon particularly suited because of its success, that can be understood only at the light of a context including the logic of its technical development and aesthetical aspects, and so …
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