Brian Hochman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Hochman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Hochman |
| SIGNATURE | HOCHMAN B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States
Electronic eavesdropping once provoked protest and outrage. Now it is a mundane fact of life. How did we get here? The Listeners traces the spies and scandal mongers, confidence artists and security experts, police and presidents who made the wiretap a defining technology of American history.
Wiretapping Stuff: Notes on Sound, Sense, and Technical Infrastructure
Wiretapping StuffNotes on Sound, Sense, and Technical Infrastructure Brian Hochman (bio) This article reconsiders key concepts in the field of sound studies in light of new theories of media materialism. My focus is on the relationship between electronic eavesdropping and technical infrastructure, a foundational area of modern media culture that has long proved difficult to assimilate into received models of inquiry. Before launching into my anal…
Savage Preservation: The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology
Journal Article Savage Preservation: The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology Get access By Brian Hochman. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. xxviii, 284 pp. Cloth, $82.50. Paper, $27.50.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 211–212, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw082 Published: 01 June 2016
Hearing Lost, Hearing Found: George Washington Cable and the Phono-Ethnographic Ear
Hochman's essay uses the work of George Washington Cable to examine a far-reaching set of debates about media technology, auditory perception, and cultural difference that emerged during the 1880s and 1890s. The first half focuses on Cable's classic dialect novel The Grandissimes (1880)—a text that constantly signals its own inability to reproduce the speech and music of New Orleans's Afro-Creole community—in order to illustrate the growing sense…
Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria
Reviewed by: Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria Brian Hochman (bio) Larkin, Brian . Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Durham and London: Duke UP, 2008. Media theory, from Benjamin to McLuhan to Kittler, in one way or another rests on the assumption that media technologies work in the way they are supposed to. Function, so to speak, follows form: radios always transmit signals…
Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria
Reviewed by: Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria Brian Hochman (bio) Larkin, Brian . Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Durham and London: Duke UP, 2008. Media theory, from Benjamin to McLuhan to Kittler, in one way or another rests on the assumption that media technologies work in the way they are supposed to. Function, so to speak, follows form: radios always transmit signals…
Savage Preservation: The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology
Journal Article Savage Preservation: The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology Get access By Brian Hochman. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. xxviii, 284 pp. Cloth, $82.50. Paper, $27.50.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 211–212, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw082 Published: 01 June 2016
Hearing Lost, Hearing Found: George Washington Cable and the Phono-Ethnographic Ear
Hochman's essay uses the work of George Washington Cable to examine a far-reaching set of debates about media technology, auditory perception, and cultural difference that emerged during the 1880s and 1890s. The first half focuses on Cable's classic dialect novel The Grandissimes (1880)—a text that constantly signals its own inability to reproduce the speech and music of New Orleans's Afro-Creole community—in order to illustrate the growing sense…
Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria
Reviewed by: Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria Brian Hochman (bio) Larkin, Brian . Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Durham and London: Duke UP, 2008. Media theory, from Benjamin to McLuhan to Kittler, in one way or another rests on the assumption that media technologies work in the way they are supposed to. Function, so to speak, follows form: radios always transmit signals…
Savage Preservation: The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology
Journal Article Savage Preservation: The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology Get access By Brian Hochman. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. xxviii, 284 pp. Cloth, $82.50. Paper, $27.50.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 211–212, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw082 Published: 01 June 2016
Wiretapping Stuff: Notes on Sound, Sense, and Technical Infrastructure
Wiretapping StuffNotes on Sound, Sense, and Technical Infrastructure Brian Hochman (bio) This article reconsiders key concepts in the field of sound studies in light of new theories of media materialism. My focus is on the relationship between electronic eavesdropping and technical infrastructure, a foundational area of modern media culture that has long proved difficult to assimilate into received models of inquiry. Before launching into my anal…
The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States
Electronic eavesdropping once provoked protest and outrage. Now it is a mundane fact of life. How did we get here? The Listeners traces the spies and scandal mongers, confidence artists and security experts, police and presidents who made the wiretap a defining technology of American history.
Computer Science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · History (2 works) · Media Studies and Communication (2 works) · Phonograph (2 works)