The mp3 as cultural artifact Export

@article{citeulike:3361043, abstract = {The mp3 lies at the center 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 to explain better why mp3s are so easy to exchange and the auditory dimensions of that process of exchange. 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 literally plays its listeners, the mp3 shows that digital audio culture works according to logics somewhat distinct from digital visual culture. 10.1177/1461444806067737}, author = {Sterne, Jonathan}, citeulike-article-id = {3361043}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/5/825}, day = {1}, journal = {New Media Society}, keywords = {ethnocybermusicology, file\_sharing, mp3, music, projeto\_tese, sandwich\_portugal, technoculture}, month = {October}, number = {5}, pages = {825--842}, posted-at = {2008-10-01 01:38:20}, priority = {2}, title = {The mp3 as cultural artifact}, url = {http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/5/825}, volume = {8}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3361043 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3361043 N2 - The mp3 lies at the center 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 to explain better why mp3s are so easy to exchange and the auditory dimensions of that process of exchange. 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 literally plays its listeners, the mp3 shows that digital audio culture works according to logics somewhat distinct from digital visual culture. 10.1177/1461444806067737 IS - 5 JF - New Media Society EP - 842 TI - The mp3 as cultural artifact VL - 8 SP - 825 KW - ethnocybermusicology KW - file_sharing KW - mp3 KW - music KW - projeto_tese KW - sandwich_portugal KW - technoculture AU - Sterne, Jonathan PY - 2006/10/01/ UR - http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/5/825 ER -