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2006 ANNUAL MEETING
Society for Social Studies of Science
November 1-5, 2006
The Empire Landmark
Vancouver, B.C, Canada
“SILENCE, SUFFERING AND SURVIVAL”

Il programma disponibile sul sito della 4S
Ecco alcune sessioni che riguardano tecnologie musicali:

2.3A – MUSIC AND THE TECHNOLOGIES OF REMIXING
Organizers: Tarleton Gillespie, Cornell University and Trevor Pinch, Cornell University
Chair: Tarleton Gillespie
Reconsidering the Historical Origins of the Remix: Motion Picture
Projectionists in America, 1927-1930
Emily Thompson, Princeton University
Retooling the Mix: Software and the Mode of Music Production
Paul Théberge, Carleton University
Online Music: Who are the Users and What is the Use?
Trevor Pinch, Cornell University
The Structures of Authorship in Technology, Law, and Digital Culture D.
Tarleton Gillespie, Cornell University
Discussant: Jonathan Sterne, McGill University

1.4I – SOCIALITY AND SELVES [NEW MEDIA]
Chair: Nancy Van House, University of California, Berkeley
New ways to socialize: the life and times of LiveJournal
David Gibson, IBM Almaden Research Center
Taking a Walk in a Virtual World: The Value of Second Life
Jonathan Stern, UCSD, Department of Sociology
Practices and strategies to stop silence through artifacts. The co-construction
of musical devices and users in the everyday life
Paolo Magaudda, University of Padova (Italy)
The Social Life of Personal Photos: New Media, New Meanings
Nancy Van House, University of California, Berkeley

2.2I – MUSIC [NEW MEDIA]
Chair: Matthias Rieger, University of Hannover, Germany
Silencing Sounds.How the science of sound made musicians speechless by
the end of the nineteenth century
Matthias Rieger, University of Hannover, Germany
Herbert Brün: Formalism and Feedback in Composition
Peter Asaro, Austrian Academy of Sciences
A Concise History of the San Francisco Tape Music Center
Thomas M. Welsh, Elision Fields
New Media and New Black Identities
Daniel Kreiss, Stanford University