MP3: The Meaning of a Format

(Part of the Sign, Storage, Transmission Series)

by Jonathan Sterne

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MP3: The Meaning of a Format recounts the hundred-year history of the world's most common format for recorded audio. Understanding the historical meaning of the MP3 format entails rethinking the place of digital technologies in the larger universe of twentieth-century communication history, from hearing research conducted by the telephone industry in the 1910s, through the mid-century development of perceptual coding (the technology underlying...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822352877

ISBN13:9780822352877

Release Date:July 2012

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:360 Pages

Weight:1.16 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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Arts, Music & Photography Communication & Media Studies Computers Computers & Technology Digital Music - General Music Social Science Social Sciences

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