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  • Listening In

    How Audio Surveillance Became Artificial Intelligence

    by Toby Heys, David Jackson, Marsha Courneya ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures
    In 1945, W. Averell Harriman, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, was presented with a carved wooden plaque of the Great Seal of the United States as a 'gesture of friendship' by a delegation from the Soviet's Young Pioneer Organization.Unbeknownst to him, one of the first covert listening devices, invented by Leon Theremin was hidden within it and was subsequently used to listen in on the ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sound Pressure

    How Speaker Systems Influence, Manipulate and Torture

    by Toby Heys ...
    Series series Media Philosophy
    Sound Pressure reveals how speaker systems mounted in public, employment, military and entertainment environments have played a pivotal role in the way that humans have been physiologically and psychologically organised and disciplined throughout the past century. The networked Wired Radio speakers of the 1920’s industrialised factory, acoustically anchor a narrative based on the functional ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • AUDINT#Unsound:Undead

    Edited by Steve Goodman, Toby Heys, Eleni Ikoniadou ...
    Series series Urbanomic / Art Editions
    Tracing the the potential of sound, infrasound, and ultrasound to access anomalous zones of transmission between the realms of the living and the dead.For as long as recording and communications technologies have existed, operators have evoked the potential of sound, infrasound, and ultrasound to access anomalous zones of transmission between the realms of the living and the dead. In Unsound ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    Listening In

    How Audio Surveillance Became Artificial Intelligence

    by Toby Heys, David Jackson, Marsha Courneya ...
    Narrated by Angus King ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures

    Unabridged

    14 hours 14 min

    Bloomsbury presents Listening In by Toby Heys, David Jackson, and Marsha Courneya, read by Angus King.In 1945, W. Averell Harriman, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, was presented with a carved wooden plaque of the Great Seal of the United States as a 'gesture of friendship' by a delegation from the Soviet’s Young Pioneer Organization.Unbeknownst to him, one of the first covert listening devices, ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means

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  • Why We Fear AI

    On the Interpretation of Nightmares

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    Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves

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  • The Internet of Things

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  • New Media

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    by Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant, Kieran Kelly ...
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  • A History of Fake Things on the Internet

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  • The Digital Turn

    How the Internet Transforms Our Existence

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  • Robot Ethics 2.0

    From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence

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