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SUMMARY:Uncommon Salons @ Bobst - Talking Books and the History of Aural Speed Reading
DESCRIPTION:Uncommon Salons @ Bobst Presents\n\nMara Mills's Talking Books 
 and the History of Aural Speed Reading\n\nSpeech gained momentum in 
 television and radio broadcasting in the 1970s\, after the 
 commercialization of "time compressors" that allowed tape recordings to be 
 accelerated without any change in pitch. This talk will discuss the 
 cultural imperative for aural speed reading among blind Talking Book 
 readers\, dating to the 1930s\, which drove time-stretching innovations in 
 the magnetic tape era\, allowing playback rate to be changed without 
 affecting pitch.\n\nThis talk is excerpted from a book-in-progress that 
 Mills is co-authoring with Jonathan Sterne. Tentatively titled Tuning Time: 
 Histories of Sound and Speed\, it traces the practice of accelerated and 
 decelerated sound reproduction from blind phonograph users in the 1930s to 
 Auto-Tune\, Ableton Live\, Audible books\, and YouTube videos 
 today.\n\nMara Mills is Associate Professor of Media\, Culture\, and 
 Communication at New York University\, where she co-founded and co-directs 
 the Center for Disability Studies. She is a founding editor of the journal 
 Catalyst: Feminism\, Theory\, Technoscience.  Her research and teaching 
 interests include communication history (especially related to telephones 
 and reading practices)\, science and technology studies\, disability 
 theory\, and mobile media studies. \n\nIn her previous works\, she has 
 argued for the significance of phonetics and deaf education to the 
 emergence of “communication engineering” in early twentieth-century 
 telephony.. Mills is currently working on the history of optical character 
 recognition and\, with Jonathan Sterne\, she is co-authoring a book titled 
 Tuning Time: Histories of Sound and Speed. Mills is the recipient of three 
 NYU teaching awards\, as well as numerous fellowships. More information can 
 be found at her website: maramills.org\n\nRSVP Required\n\nThursday\, 
 February 27th at 6:00 PM \nBobst Library - Room 745\nOpen to the Public | 
 Light Refreshments will be served
LOCATION:Avery Fisher Center (AFC)\, 70 Washington Square South\, Bobst Library\, 7th Floor\, New York\, NY 10012\, Bobst Library
ORGANIZER;CN="Brynne Campbell":MAILTO:bc2348@nyu.edu
CATEGORIES:Library Event
CONTACT;CN="Brynne Campbell":MAILTO:bc2348@nyu.edu
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