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You can find a few sterneworks-only articles on the left. Below are links to materials published elsewhere. My book, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction is available from Duke University Press and most academic libraries.
SELECTED SCHOLARLY ARTICLES:
PLEASE NOTE—these articles are posted for scholarly, personal use only under U.S. fair use guidelines. Any academic citation or excerpting must be with proper attribution. For permission for any other use, please contact me.
“The Cat Telephone,” The Velvet Light Trap #64 (Fall 2009): 83-84.
“James Carey and the Resistance to Cultural Studies in North America Cultural Studies 23:2 (March 2009): 283-286.
“Enemy Voice,” Social Text #96 25:3 (September 2008): 79-100.
“Being ‘in the True’ of Sound Studies” Music, Sound and the Moving Image 2:2 (Autumn 2008): 163-167.
(coauthored with Jeremy Morris, Michael Brendan Baker and Ariana Moscote Freire) “The Politics of ‘Podcasting,’” Fibreculture #13 (July 2008).
“Media or Instruments? Yes.” Offscreen 11:8-9 (Aug/Sept 2007).
“The Death and Life of Digital Audio,” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 31:4 (December 2006): 338-348.
“The MP3 as Cultural Artifact,” New Media and Society 8:5 (November 2006): 825-842.
(coauthored with Emily Raine) “Command Tones: Digitization and Sounded Time,” First Monday 11:9 (September 2006):
“Urban Media and the Politics of Sound Space,” in “Sound in Art and Culture,” a special issue of Open: Cahier on Art and the Public Domain #9 (Fall 2005): 6-15.
“Digital Media and Disciplinarity,” The Information Society 21:4 (Fall 2005): 249-256.
“C. Wright Mills, the Bureau for Applied Social Research, and Meaning of Critical Scholarship.” Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies 5:1 (Winter 2005): 65-94.
“Academia Pro Bono,” Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies 4:2 (May 2004): 219-222.
(coauthored with Carol Stabile) “Using Women as Middle Men: The Real Promise of ICTs,” Feminist Media Studies 3:3 (Fall 2003): 364-368.
“Bourdieu, Technique and Technology,” Cultural Studies 17:3/4 (May/July 2003): 367-389.
“Cultural Policy Studies and the Problem of Political Representation.” The Communication Review 5:1 (Spring 2002): 59-89.
“Television Under Construction: American Television and the Problem of Distribution 1926-1962.” Media, Culture and Society 21:3 (July 1999): 503-530.
“Sounds Like the Mall of America: Programmed Music and the Architectonics of Commercial Space.” Ethnomusicology 41:1 (Winter 1997): 22-50.
SELECTED ESSAYS IN BAD SUBJECTS
United We Stand: Fresh Hoagies Daily (coauthored with Carrie Rentschler and Carol Stabile)