Author, Hush: Media & Sonic Self-Control (Duke UP). Sound, media, disability. Assoc. Prof, MiamiU. Proud member, @famiamioh. Producer/host, @phantompod.
Joined March 2008
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4 Nov 2022
#BrownNoise is having a moment on TikTok and in the news.
But when did we first start using noise as comfort sound? And why do we seem to need it?
I wrote about it for @washingtonpost:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-h…
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20 Jun 2024
Numero/Environments field recordings from the 2024 cicada super bloom are now streaming:
open.spotify.com/album/6NMHP…
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24 May 2024
No personal experience, but I enjoyed @mactra episode on Phantom Power where he interviews his agent: open.spotify.com/episode/5OU…
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2 Mar 2024
It was fascinating to talk with @mactra for this longform interview on @PhantomPod about architecture, acoustic media, and the noisy environments of open-plan offices. phantompod.org/office-noise/
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3 Nov 2023
New episode: @mattrubery, a literature prof who pioneered the study of audiobooks, talks narration, neurodiversity, and "audiobook shame."
phantompod.org/audiobooks/
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12 Oct 2023
Choosing not to participate in Twitter discourse isn’t ‘silence’, let alone ‘complicity’ with anything. If I thought anyone was waiting for my opinion, maybe I’d offer it, but probably not in 280 characters on here
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11 Oct 2023
I'm also @mactra at the spool place, where I'm spending a lot more time. Would love to meet up w/ you there.
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10 Oct 2023
YES!!!!!!!!!!!
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9 Oct 2023
I was also quoted in this WSJ piece on the opportunity costs of headphones. It was a banner day for me in the newspaper opining category!
8 Oct 2023
Look around. Everyone’s on mute because of noise-canceling headphones. But now some people are rethinking their personal audio bubbles. on.wsj.com/3LSk1q3
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9 Oct 2023
I was quoted in this Washington Post story today. Check out the cool noise colors for fall!
9 Oct 2023
Colored noises are having a major moment.
Particular “colors” of noise may lead to different outcomes. Want to fall asleep? Try pink noise. Need to focus? Brown noise may be best. wapo.st/3ZKRvfO
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9 Oct 2023
Just finished the first chapter of this book: stylistically bold, creepily defamiliarizing, and laugh-out-loud funny!
Blown. Away.
6 Oct 2023
Was just browsing my fav bookstore, @downboundbooks, and learned the brilliant @MandySuzanneW has a new novel out. Can’t wait to dig in!
ALT The Box by Mandy-Suzanne Wong
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Mack Hagood--@mactra at b.sky retweeted
9 Oct 2023
"Many students majoring in English, philosophy and film get impressive opportunities right out of college."
Check out this U.S. News article about the benefits of choosing a Humanities degree!
usnews.com/education/article…
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6 Oct 2023
Was just browsing my fav bookstore, @downboundbooks, and learned the brilliant @MandySuzanneW has a new novel out. Can’t wait to dig in!
ALT The Box by Mandy-Suzanne Wong
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1 Oct 2023
refreshing to see someone just unapologetically treat as a premise the view that surges in far-right politics is a predictable sociological phenomenon that has alterable material conditions. too much moralizing about this fact and too little strategic thinking about it imho
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The YouTube team. Volumes 1 and 2.
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30 Sep 2023
Pretty wild that a music critic would fly all the way to Vegas to review a new music venue and not spend a single sentence on acoustics or sound quality. Lots of grafs on “Sphere’s technological wizardry,” but all of them visual.
nytimes.com/2023/09/30/arts/…
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26 Sep 2023
.@PivotPod, past 6 months...
@karaswisher: Writers' Guild has no leverage!
@profgalloway: Unions don't work!
[Real world: WGA crushes it, AMPTP caves.]
Pivot today...
Kara: We called it!
Scott: Unions don't work!
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Mack Hagood--@mactra at b.sky retweeted
Congratulations to @mactra for winning an #NEHGrant to support his research on the role of noise and sound in contemporary American society. Read more about it here: humanitiescenter.miamioh.edu…
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