http://clicknoise.net/mobile-music-and-urban-space-a-synthesis/ Musings about music, technology, mobility, and culture, by Jean Hebert. Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:56:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://clicknoise.net/mobile-music-and-urban-space-a-synthesis/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Clicknoise » Gadget Reductivism Mon, 29 May 2006 23:29:02 +0000 http://clicknoise.net/mobile-music-and-urban-space-a-synthesis/#comment-85 [...] I’ve ruminated previously on the implications for music in an increasingly gadget-reduced, mobilized social world, so I’m not going to muse further on that topic at present. I’m also going to leave the problems that gadget reductivism poses in business to people who have a greater interest in that than I have. Instead, I’d like to discuss the wider social and intellectual implications of the idealized networked, omnifunctional handset that promises to replace all other gadgets. [...] [...] I’ve ruminated previously on the implications for music in an increasingly gadget-reduced, mobilized social world, so I’m not going to muse further on that topic at present. I’m also going to leave the problems that gadget reductivism poses in business to people who have a greater interest in that than I have. Instead, I’d like to discuss the wider social and intellectual implications of the idealized networked, omnifunctional handset that promises to replace all other gadgets. [...]

]]> http://clicknoise.net/mobile-music-and-urban-space-a-synthesis/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Clicknoise » mobility, the digital divide, and technologies of cooperation Sun, 21 May 2006 00:40:23 +0000 http://clicknoise.net/mobile-music-and-urban-space-a-synthesis/#comment-62 [...] This art project (using a portable, foldable private telephone booth that people can take with them anywhere) is cute, but also pointed. The project points our attention toward our changing habits with (and by extension values about) private conversation in public space. It raises issues of individual rights to privacy and the collective right to civility in public. [...] [...] This art project (using a portable, foldable private telephone booth that people can take with them anywhere) is cute, but also pointed. The project points our attention toward our changing habits with (and by extension values about) private conversation in public space. It raises issues of individual rights to privacy and the collective right to civility in public. [...]

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