Object Lessons: Personal Stereo

基本信息

Series:Object Lessons

Format:Paperback / softback 152 pages, 11 b/w illustrations

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic USA

ISBN:9781501322815

Published:7 Sep 2017

Weight:144g

Dimensions:123 x 164 x 15 (mm)

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

《實例研究》系列內容簡短，設計精美，探索生活中常見物件的鮮為人知的故事，激勵我們重新審視日常生活中我們習以為常的事物。

麗貝卡·杜胡斯·杜布（Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow）研究了隨身聽對公共空間的影響，我們與電子個人設備的關係以及新技術（以及對舊技術的懷舊情緒）引起的恐懼和興奮。

1979年，Sony Walkman首次面世時，人們就被它提供的新穎體驗所深深吸引：隨時隨地沉浸在音樂中。但是，隨身聽也被指責為自我放縱和反社會的東西，是“我”一代的典型裝飾品。

在《實例研究：隨身聽》中，麗貝卡·杜胡斯·杜布（Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow）回顧隨身聽的誕生，探討了其發明的信譽，在1980年代美國受到的reception昧接受以及對社會規範和公共空間的持久影響而在信貸方面的法律鬥爭。從戰後的日本到現在，Tuhus-Dubrow講述了一個關於我們對技術變革的情感迴應的有啟發性的故事。

Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow investigates the walkman's influence on public space, our relationship to electronic personal devices, and the fears and exhilaration induced by new technologies (as well as the nostalgia attached to old ones).

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

When the Sony Walkman debuted in 1979, people were enthralled by the novel experience it offered: immersion in the music of their choice, anytime, anywhere. But the Walkman was also denounced as self-indulgent and antisocial—the quintessential accessory for the “me” generation.

In Personal Stereo, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow takes us back to the birth of the device, exploring legal battles over credit for its invention, its ambivalent reception in 1980s America, and its lasting effects on social norms and public space. Ranging from postwar Japan to the present, Tuhus-Dubrow tells an illuminating story about our emotional responses to technological change.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

作者簡介

Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow is a Contributing Editor at Dissent. Her writing has appeared in Slate, The Nation, the New York Times Book Review, Boston Review, and the Los Angeles Times. She was previously a contributing writer for the Boston Globe's Ideas section, a columnist for the urban affairs website Next City, and a Journalism and Media Fellow at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.