Designing Soundscapes for Argumentation

Eckstein, Justin

doi:10.5325/philrhet.51.3.0269

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“…How can we combine these different projects? There is a wealth of research in the vein of the normative-pragmatic school of argumentation that looks at how ordinary people naturally generate their own rules of normativity from ordinary situations (e.g., Eckstein, 2018; Goodwin, 2007). Perhaps, more research should take seriously how ethics might be derived from these situations and the everyday ways in which people might discover something meaningful in these interactions.…”

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The (Parkland) kids are alright

Eckstein

2020

Communication and the Public

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Wounds materialize in the wake of the event, when rhetoric inadequately indexes what is present in a situation. Such a position bypasses ethics from the transcendental ought or the purely descriptive is to an ethics grounded in an immanent occurrence. To give an example of this kind of rhetorical ethics, I turn to an example of a recent wound, the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where the pathology of gun violence has created a wound that shattered our rhetorical sensorium. In the immediate aftermath, Emma Gonzales, a student and survivor of the Parkland shooting, seized upon this perspective on the wound to forge a new figure, the Parkland Kid, and with it new lines of argument. I argue her capacity to turn a wounding into a new subject illustrates a new rhetorical ethics that is inclusive; she became a subject of the shooting, the new Parkland Kid, that anyone is welcome to join. My contribution departs from the wound as a damaged attachment for its understanding as a productive force.

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The (Parkland) kids are alright

Eckstein

2020

Communication and the Public

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“…ByrdBot's communication through nonverbal sound can be conceptualized as influential, not as an outright argument per se, but rather as tapping into the ambience of the ecological soundscape to facilitate attunement to the Anthropocene (Rickert, 2013). As such, while ByrdBot is wildly openended in its messaging via soundscapes in that it lacks directly stated premises or conclusions, it also can be said to offer sonic conditions supportive of reasoned reflection on one's own and others' impacts on the ecology (Eckstein, 2018). This experience, if we were to wager a term for it, we might call open-ended witnessing.…”

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Emergent Sonification: Using Computational Media to Communicate the Anthropocene in ByrdBot

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Science Communication

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This research note describes ByrdBot, a science communication tool that leverages bird songs to communicate data regarding human impacts on the environment. With ByrdBot, listeners can compare simulated soundscapes of 1970, 2017, and 2065 to immediately, and viscerally, experience decades of past or projected future environmental change. The communication tactic of ByrdBot—what we call emergent sonification—is discussed as one that capitalizes on computational media to facilitate attunement to nonhuman voices and, subsequently, to offer an affective grasping of the impacts of such phenomena as habitat destruction and climate change on wildlife displacement and loss.

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“…Sounds can be used to design spaces that are more or less desirable for argumentation. 16 The original purpose of public fountains in parks, for instance, was to give visitors auditory privacy. Therapists have used white noise machines for the same reason.…”

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Spreading the sonic color line in American policy debate

Eisenstadt

2020

Review of Communication

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Auditory privacy is an unequally distributed resource. Inequitable access to the auditory shield, a practice that excludes the public from educational spaces to allow for experimentation with convictions and beliefs, serves as a reminder that sound is raced. This analysis of American-style intercollegiate policy debate pays specific attention to the different adjectives used by media outlets to describe the sound of self-identified white debaters and Black debaters "spreading," a technique with which speakers provide as many arguments as possible within the given time limits and by which they generate an auditory shield. While this study finds that all participants generally have some access to debate's experimental space, the surplus sound created by the spread prompted commentators to praise white debaters for their rigor while characterizing Black debaters as inadequate. Their assessments, which dismissed Black voices merely on the basis of how they sounded, fell along what Jennifer Lynn Stoever calls "the sonic color line." These reactions illustrate the inequities within the pedagogical spaces in which students practice dialogue and deliberation.

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Designing Soundscapes for Argumentation

Cited by 11 publications

References 37 publications

The (Parkland) kids are alright

The (Parkland) kids are alright

Emergent Sonification: Using Computational Media to Communicate the Anthropocene in ByrdBot

Spreading the sonic color line in American policy debate

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