MP3: The Meaning of a Format

by Jonathan Sterne

Book Overview

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"