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041 _afre
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100 1 0 _aSterne, Jonathan
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245 0 0 _aThe MP3 as a cultural artifact
260 _c2015.
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520 _aThe MP3 lies at the heart of important debates around intellectual property and file-sharing, but it is also a cultural artifact in its own right. This article examines the design of the MP3 from both industrial and psychoacoustic perspectives in an attempt to understand why MP3s are so easy to exchange, and the auditory aspects of the exchange process. As a container technology for recorded sound, the MP3 shows that the quality of “portability” is central to the history of auditory representation. As a psychoacoustic technology that can literally play its listeners, the MP3 shows that digital audio culture works according to a somewhat different logic from digital visual culture.
690 _aDigital Audio
690 _aTechnology and Culture
690 _aVisual Culture
690 _aFile-Sharing
690 _aSound Recording
690 _aListening
690 _aSound
690 _aPsychoacoustics
690 _amp3
690 _aDigital Format
786 0 _nCommunication & langages | o 184 | 2 | 2015-06-01 | p. 41-60 | 0336-1500
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-communication-et-langages1-2015-2-page-41?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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