Sonic Skills : : Listening for Knowledge in Science, Medicine and Engineering (1920s-Present).

• Author: Bijsterveld, Karin.
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Palgrave Macmillan UK,, 2018.; Ã2019.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (178 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Listening for Knowledge: Introduction -- Abstract -- Acoustic Signatures -- Sonic Skills -- Sensory Practices in the Sciences -- Cases of Sound and Listening -- Sensory Selectivity -- References -- Chapter 2 Sonic Signs: Turning to, Talking About, and Transcribing Sound -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Hazy Sounds: Verbalizations and Descriptions of the Audible -- Artful Drawings: Musical and Graphic Notation -- Save the Patient: Survival of Embodied Representation -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3 Modes of Listening: Why, How and to What? -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Existing Taxonomies of Listening: Analytic and Actors' Categories -- Purposes of Listening: Why Scientists, Engineers, and Physicians Listen -- Ways of Listening: How Scientists, Engineers, and Physicians Listen -- Sonic Skills: Virtuosity in Shifting Modes and Handling Tools -- The Missing Third Dimension: Listening to What? -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4 Resounding Contestation: The Ambiguous Status of Sonic Skills -- Abstract -- Twittering Timbrados -- Beyond the Infallible Ear: Repeated Listening and Sensory Calibration -- At a Glance: Mechanical Visualization and Professional Audition -- Meter Reading as a Technology of Trust in Expert-Customer Relations -- There Is More Than Meets the Eye: Struggling with Trained Ears in Sonification -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5 Popping Up: The Continual Return of Sound and Listening -- Abstract -- Hearing Gravitational Waves -- The Digital: Portable and Versatile Sound Technologies -- Somatic Vigilance: Attuning to Instruments and Time -- Auditory Sublime: Promising Wonder and Awe Through Sound -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6 Ensembles of Sonic Skills: Conclusions -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Timing-And the Relations Between Science and Technology.

Trust-And the Relations Between the Sciences and the Professions -- Accountability-And the Relations Between Science and Society -- Epilogue -- References -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.