Thinking Communication from Soundscape Theory: Sound, Space and Auditory Culture

Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2019, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (3) : 24-41.

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Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2019, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (3) : 24-41.

Thinking Communication from Soundscape Theory: Sound, Space and Auditory Culture

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Framed by visualized thinking patterns, communication studies on sound media and their usage tend to investigate the process of listeners consuming and accepting sound content in social contexts, thus rendering sound of spatiality into a two-dimensional world. These studies generally neglect the shaping of sound environment and its interaction with human senses. In contrast, the theory of soundscape based on space and the listener’s experience explores the shaping of the sonic world around and the impression of that created by “listening patterns” which includes the potentiality of reading the meanings conveyed by sound and a certain kind of embodied aptitude trained by the very soundscape. Soundscape theory considers sound as an environment that interacts directly with human sensorium, not only conveyor of content. Soundscape and listening patterns present the particular power relation and the characteristics of material, technological condition of a certain period. By investigating soundscape in a broader space, we can connect different sites/contexts of relatively small scale where communication activities happen, and examine the spatial arrangements between these sites, as well as the power relation behind.

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Soundscape / Sonic environment / Listening patterns / Space / Embodied aptitude

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