[princeclassic]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3542391.stm

not sure if someone has posted this already....

 

[ipodstudio]

Yep, saw that one. Deep stuff

 

[sleepkyng]

ah dr. bull...
lol

 

[Trawlerman]

Quote:

To Dr Michael Bull, portable music players are "multi-faceted transformative devices", a "tool whereby users manage space, time and the boundaries around the self."

What

Funny. I thought I was reading about an iPod but it seems he was talking about Dr. Who's TARDIS here

He's got the right name anyway - Dr. Bull

 

[redshifter]

"warp-bullsh*t-speed six, ensign!"

 

[Music Fanatic]

Quote:

Shopping for food while listening to a Bach violin concerto completely remakes the experience. It turns you from a grazing animal into something finer.

Uh, thanks, I guess.

 

[Lisa]

Quote:

Digital players in general and the iPod in particular are having a dramatic effect on the way people behave, he says.

So my iRiver has a more general dramatic effect than the iPod who has a more particular dramatic effect on the way people behave.

Or am I just misunderstanding the nuances of the English language here?

Cause it sound like a load of Dr. Bull to me.

 

[Lisa]

Quote:

He started investigating what people do with music players

 

[fewtch]

Quote:

Originally posted by Lisa Quote: He started investigating what people do with music players

LOL!

 

[sleepkyng]

yes, my iPod has removed me from the rest of people. i am now in the upper echelon.

instead of hearing the sounds of the city, i am rewarded with
"Wu tang clan ain't nothin' ta ***** wit"

 

[hciman77]

Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies


Says it all !

BTW what on earth is "media and cultural studies" ?

The beeb is fond of posting these pseudo science/socio-eco-politico-cultural-techno-mumbo-jumbo pieces, last year they did a piece on a guy who surgically inserted chips into his and his wifes bodies so they could communicate without speaking.....

 

[Zuerst]

Hmmm... I use my mp3 player to keep me awake during boring lectures...

 

[Music Fanatic]

Quote:

Originally posted by hciman77 Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Says it all ! BTW what on earth is "media and cultural studies" ?

People who study mass media and contemporary culture. This includes most folks in Journalism schools, for example, as well as some in sociology and anthopology. Does it make a field more legitimate in your eyes if it ends in "-ology"?

 

[hciman77]

Quote:

Originally posted by Music Fanatic People who study mass media and contemporary culture. This includes most folks in Journalism schools, for example, as well as some in sociology and anthopology. Does it make a field more legitimate in your eyes if it ends in "-ology"?

Didnt mean to start a inter-disciplinary jihad - though that might be entertaining in itself.

When at school I said I wanted to take Psychology one of our senior teachers ( a Doctor of Theology) said that he felt that Psychology was the one discipline that made Theology look like a positive Science. I did do Psychology in the end (BA and MSc) , do I feel it is legitimate ? - only sometimes.

In the immortal words of Maureen Lipman to her TV advert son that had failed all his "O" levels (Exams taken at age 16 in the UK) except woodwork and Sociology . "You got an ology - you're a scientist."

My criteria for all these things is "does it make a worthwhile contribution?". I am currently a doctoral student and I work/socialise with a lot of quite brilliant thinkers but I dont half hear a lot of Bollocks sometimes. Sometimes it is from my own lips.

 

[FalconP]

You know, whenever I read "academic findings" like this, I wonder who sponsored the eggheads:
Quote:

"All those things about empowering and managing are just more elevated and sophisticated with the iPod," he says.

Hmm...